Frank,
Piece of cake.........almost. One of the nurses told me that my knee
replacement was more serious then bypass. Actually they're all serious.
My mom had it done when she was 80 and was roaming the halls and making
like nothing happened. She went home in 4 days...and that was 13 years
ago. She's a chipper 93 now and still drives to church and does errands.
My dad had it done when he was 65, that was in 1975. He died in '91
from congestive heart failure and the Doc said the bypasses where clean
as a whistle. Nowadays they do miracles compared to back then. I don't
know about the lifting part, BUT, this is like a restoration; don't put
time constraints on it and rehab correctly! Sorry, that was my teacher
voice.
I survived right knee surgery w/ no driving for 8 weeks!! I worked hard
to flex the knee and was driving an automatic in 7 wks. I sat in the
LBC's at 8. It was hard but you take it one day at a time.
Good luck! You'll do fine. Good way to start the new year with renewed
health!!
God Bless & Happy Holidays!
Dave
59:{)
59 MGA 1500
Frank Krajewski wrote:
>Sorry to bomb the list with non-lbc stuff but I received some bad news in the
>past few days and wonder if any listers have had a similar problem. A routine
>visit to my doctor to check on relatively minor chest pain has resulted in my
>need to have a quadruple bypass right away. A heart catheterization procedure
>showed that angioplasty or stents would be ineffective owing to the location
>of the blockages. It is scheduled for Jan. 7. Be interested in hearing
>offlist from any of you who may have experienced something similar about what
>I can anticipate, especially the convalescent pperiod. No heavy lifting for
>4-6 weeks after? How does one tinker on his lbcs? Again, sorry to bomb the
>list.
>Frank "Swamp Yankee" Krajewski
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