Life through my Eyes

Oh my Surgery on short notice ❣️

I would like to thank everyone for your thoughts, well wishes, and prayers. I am home now and after taking a nap, because if you have ever stayed overnight or long periods of time in the hospital you know you won't get any rest. It makes you wonder if you're there to get well. Why in the world do they wake you up every hour? Well, it is to make sure everything is going well. But, when a nurse came in at 4 am to ask me if I needed help with my shower, that took the cake. Come on, really I just fell asleep and you come in and wake me up out of a dead sleep to ask about a shower. What was strange she wasn't even my nurse. That being said that's why I needed a nap.

Here's the outcome of my surgery and diagnosis. The procedure was a heart cath and stent. The damage was to my left side artery that the other test results didn't find. This is the first surgery that I have ever been totally awake. It was the strangest feeling to feel my warm thick blood run down my leg as he inserted the scalpel into my skin to start inserting the heart cath. At first, I thought I had gone to the bathroom and started to get embarrassed until I realized it was my own blood running down my leg onto the table.

They had the EKG hooked up with wires going everywhere to monitor my heart rate. There were a couple of screens to my left, so I could watch it while he did it. But, when they hooked me up to everything they forgot to make sure I could see. He spoke in a melancholy tone as he described the procedure to me. It was like a soothing blanket covering me as I looked around the room and listened to them talk through step by step, I was at total ease. Yeah, hard to believe it, but I was totally into it.

After placing the stent where he wanted and stitching me up, he walked around the operating table to my left side to show me on the screen what he had done. He then realized that I hadn't been able to see what he had been doing. He gently moved the blanket down so I could see and explained that although he normally inserted stents at 75% he was placing one in my heart even though it was at a lower percentage rate. He said due to the build-up and damage to my heart it would be a matter of time before I would suffer a fatal attack and not recover from it. I laid there watching my arteries, blood vessels and my heart pumping out its own rhythmic heartbeat on one screen. While he showed me on the other screen the damage to my artery I could see what he was explaining to me. It really fascinated me, I could've stayed there all day watching MY HEART BEATING to its own sound. Wow, so amazing.

We discussed the fall that I had back in November 2017 and we both agreed that it was a blessing in disguise that leads us to the damage to my heart before something serious happened. If it wasn't for some of the health issues that I was suffering I probably wouldn't had been prompted to go see a cardiologist. God does work in mysterious ways.

My breathing is so much better and I don't have the severe pressure on my heart. As I have mentioned before that you need to listen to your body. And if the doctor doesn't listen to you find someone that will before something tragic happens to you. I have dedicated this to The Mightiest Physician of all God, my doctor John King and some of the best day nurses in Lowndes County, MS and to two of my dearest friends (Patsy and Kary) who stayed with me and chauffeured me back and forth when my family couldn't be with me on such short notice. For all the prayers that I received from family and friends from all over the globe. I love ya'll ❣️

May God find you well,