So the scope never happened. I was wheeled down to that department and as I came in the call came thru that it was canceled and I was headed to straight surgery. So this nice nurse explained to me that heart surgery is very risky and here is what they are going to do to you.....Oh no way lady. I will YouTube this crap later but no way are you telling me now.
I have enough medical training to know most of it but lets not freak out the patient before I go in, goofball.
So I went back up to my room, as the transporters knocked into everything along the way like my bed was some kind of bulldozer. Those guys cracked me up.
So back in my room, most of my family was there with gloomy faces. I kept the jokes going. Alexis looked worried, I could tell they all were but I wasn't. I had the easy part. I was going to sleep.
Many doctors came in that I had never met, telling me it has to come out. I was like great, lets go, I'm ready. I did call my surgeon that has done all my cancer stuff, he works a building away, I consider him my friend. I call him handsome he calls me gorgeous. He came by and talked to us, confirming it needs to come out and that the guy taking it out is amazing and he isn't worried about a thing. This dr is so laid back and has a great way of making everyone feel good. And that's all I needed to hear.
So before I knew it I was being taken again this time for good and who knew what was going to happen. So I continued the faces and jokes as my almost in tears family waved bye and I went thru the double doors. Then I cried but just for a second. Then I was ready.
Once in, they gave me those amazing drugs that make you feel so good and I was out.
Apparently the surgery went well. I'm still here. :) they had to go thru the front of my chest cutting the entire breast bone and leaving me with a beautiful scar. I guess my chest can't be my fav part of my body now... Ha!
Ended up in some icu for after heart surgery. Woke up hearing my family talking. I could not see them but I was so hot and I had some tube in my throat that stopped me from being able to speak and i wanted it out. My first goal was getting these hot blankets off me. So using hand signals I motioned like I was hot acting as if my hand was a fan. Nope they thought I wanted them closer, which made me hotter. So I grabbed the nurses hand and wrote "HOT" on it with my finger. He understood and the blankets came off. Next goal... Getting this thing out of my throat. Apparently being on the heart and lung machine you have to prove you can breathe on your own for a certain amount of time before the tube gets removed and the machine stops breathing for you. As my daughter stood beside me saying mom breathe! I went in and out. So I was breathing then I stopped so she yelled again. That's what I remember most, her yelling "breathe". Then some guy kept telling me to open my eyes. I did dramatically each time he asked but I was tired and didn't want my eyes open. But I could hear him and he was not taking that tube out until I woke up all the way...But I was awake... So the asshole in me pretended to start gaging and just like that he said we have to get this out and like that it was gone. So I was way more awake then they thought as I could think up this amazing plan to get what I wanted. Hahaha. Moral of the story... Don't pull me out of my sleep if you have tubes down my throat.
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