I'm BAAAAAACK!
Apr. 4th, 2012 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nursedarryHello everyone! Yes, some of this barely-controlled joy is pharmaceutically derived, but it's also the result of sleeping well, eating well AND FINALLY HAVING THE CORRECT AMOUNT OF CIRCULATING OXYGEN IN MY BODY.
I came home from hospital yesterday. It is very weird to think that exactly this time last week, I was on an operating table with a bunch of people's hands in my chest. I have an enormous scar now, but at least my heart is working like it should be! A good trade, I think. Evidently, it wasn't pretty: my heart had become "grossly enlarged" and my pulmonary veins were more of a mess than the angiogram and MRI had indicated. The surgeon fixing them was able to re-route them all to the left atrium. I had my mitral valve repaired (annuloplasty), with the aid of some Gore-tex sutures to replace a couple chordae tendineae and a synthetic ring (for which the other surgeon gave me the serial number - in case of recall, I guess - EEEK!) There's a chance that I'll eventually need the valve replaced, but not any time in the near future. They also performed a pulmonary vein ablation procedure to control my atrial fibrillation.
The following people should be sainted for acting above and beyond the call of duty with their visits, gifts and hand-holding whilst I was being jabbed and lines and drains were being yanked out of me:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meredyth_13, accioscar, mayfly_78 and felidaeryl. sati_lotus kept me laughing and I even got a nice tweet from my favourite True Blood vampire - THANK YOU, ALLAN!
Huge thanks also goes toalovelycupoftea, vaysh11, groolover and dysonrules for finishing up ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
hd_remix. I owe you my mod life, ladies!
Finally, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE HERE for your lovely messages, vgifts, e-cards, emails, healing thoughts, and well-wishes. I could NOT have got through this as easily as I did without my internet friends, and I thank god for all of you.
I'm still going to be lying low on LJ for awhile whilst healing and getting back fully into RL, but it should be back to business as usual in the virtual world in the next few months.
♥
I came home from hospital yesterday. It is very weird to think that exactly this time last week, I was on an operating table with a bunch of people's hands in my chest. I have an enormous scar now, but at least my heart is working like it should be! A good trade, I think. Evidently, it wasn't pretty: my heart had become "grossly enlarged" and my pulmonary veins were more of a mess than the angiogram and MRI had indicated. The surgeon fixing them was able to re-route them all to the left atrium. I had my mitral valve repaired (annuloplasty), with the aid of some Gore-tex sutures to replace a couple chordae tendineae and a synthetic ring (for which the other surgeon gave me the serial number - in case of recall, I guess - EEEK!) There's a chance that I'll eventually need the valve replaced, but not any time in the near future. They also performed a pulmonary vein ablation procedure to control my atrial fibrillation.
The following people should be sainted for acting above and beyond the call of duty with their visits, gifts and hand-holding whilst I was being jabbed and lines and drains were being yanked out of me:
meredyth_13, accioscar, mayfly_78 and felidaeryl. sati_lotus kept me laughing and I even got a nice tweet from my favourite True Blood vampire - THANK YOU, ALLAN!Huge thanks also goes to
alovelycupoftea, vaysh11, groolover and dysonrules for finishing up hd_remix. I owe you my mod life, ladies!Finally, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE HERE for your lovely messages, vgifts, e-cards, emails, healing thoughts, and well-wishes. I could NOT have got through this as easily as I did without my internet friends, and I thank god for all of you.
I'm still going to be lying low on LJ for awhile whilst healing and getting back fully into RL, but it should be back to business as usual in the virtual world in the next few months.
♥
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Date: 2012-04-04 10:58 am (UTC)Oxygenated blood ftw!
I bet your family is glad to have you home too.
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Date: 2012-04-04 11:05 am (UTC)Thank you, BB!
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Date: 2012-04-04 11:24 am (UTC)*sings*
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Date: 2012-04-04 11:27 am (UTC)Welcome home lovely!
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Date: 2012-04-04 11:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-04 11:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-04 11:59 am (UTC)*gentle hugs*
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Date: 2012-04-04 12:11 pm (UTC)I'm so glad that everything went well and you are back in working order!
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Date: 2012-04-04 12:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-04 12:39 pm (UTC):D
So glad you're feeling better, bebe! And now you have a Sectumsempra scar, right? WOOHOO!
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Date: 2012-04-04 12:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-04 12:59 pm (UTC)How scary. I'm so glad you're okay. SO SO GLAD! Recover well! And you can always show that scar off in drunken challenges of mightyness!
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Date: 2012-04-04 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-04 01:20 pm (UTC)Well done.
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Date: 2012-04-04 05:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-04-04 06:46 pm (UTC)That grossly enlarged thing does not sound pretty - I hope it returns to normal size without putting up a fuss!
Wishes of speedy and smooth recovery!!! ♥
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Date: 2012-04-04 07:23 pm (UTC)And get healthy soon.