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"For I, the Lord your God,
hold your right hand;
it is I who say to you, 'Fear not,
I am the one who helps you.' "
- Isaiah 41:13
What relaxes you? magazines? scents? I always took gardening magazines and either cinnamon or herbal concoctions from an herbalist whenever I went to the hospital.
Send prayers everyone, and thanks to those who have responded. Much appreciated
GA: Nothing relaxes me..............I swear I have not slept for the past month at least. I think I'll bring out my lavender and mint balm, that sometimes calms me. Thanks for the reminder
I asked my family to pray for him too. You are in my prayers Please take good care of yourself and try to get some rest. Hugs.
I'm glad your DD can be there for you both too. One step at a time, and deep breaths. Sending you lots of love Lea.
{{{Lea}}}
I didn't know about your husband's surgery either until I was on Elaine's thread. I will be be praying for you both. Waiting is extremely hard to do!
If it's any encouragement, my ex- BIL who's 78 and has many other serious health conditions has gone through this and all went very well. Also, my uncle who is 90 whose been a heavy lifetime smoker and has extremely high cholesterol issues has also undergone this type of surgery at least twice and he's still doing what he's always been doing good or bad!
Will be looking for an update when everything is over.
In the meantime - take care!
In any event, we'll see about that, I don't know. I'm more worried about sitting alone in the waiting room for upwards of 7 hours or more waiting for him to be finished with the surgery.
Thank you all so much for the support and the prayers, it means a lot.
My husband had open heart surgery in 2005 and I am a BIG believer in "first thing in the AM"! I recall talking to the surgeon after the 6 hour surgery was done done and at the end of our conversation he said "gotta go; I have to do the next one". Oy!
I saw my husband immediately afterwards and the only problem was that when he saw me, he tried to rip the tube out so he could talk to me. Two nurses kept him from doing that, thankfully.
Get some rest and drink fluids!! I got my hair cut the day before my husband's surgery; I was looking pretty bedraggled because I'd been living at the hospital for the three days prior.
Well, that was quite an anxiety and stress laden way to start off the day. Like Barb said, it really is better to have it first thing in the mornings.
Sounds like it's for the best all the way around - morning surgery, best surgeon, you getting to rest today from all the stress etc.
I am very surprised they would let you see him especially as COVID is escalating again (I wasn't even allowed in the hospital in April when my mom was near death). Maybe you can do Facetime like I did avoiding the risk to you. Our local hospital had an iPad that they passed around to patients who had families so we were able to see and talk to her on two different days. I guess I'd be concerned not just seeing him in that condition but having other patients with COVID in the same ICU.
Good idea to ask them about his exposure risk especially after a serious surgery like he's having.
Continued prayers in preparation for tomorrow!
They wouldn’t be postponing it unless they knew they could.
When my husband and I went to visit my mother today, there was a big sign that said no visitors starting tomorrow at the hospital.
I panicked because until now they said it was 12:00-600pm visiting hours but we could visit anytime 2 at a time because she is in end of life care.
we are still allowed to visit anytime. Do what your DD thinks is best. You don’t want to get COVID on top of everything. Our hospital just got more cases that is why they are shutting down visitors.
I will be praying for you and your DH today and tomorrow.
I know this is not easy but you are so very strong. You have helped me so much over these last few months.Hang in there. We all care!!
The doctor who gave DH the cath yesterday is seeing if one of the techs can get DD a badge so she can join me. As long as HE can't get fired, that's all I care about.
Funny story..... we bought a bp cuff awhile ago at an estate sale. DH has been using it to monitor his bp for the past 3 weeks and it's been reading VERY high. False reads...... it needs recalibration and we did not know that. So. He did NOT have hi bp in reality but it was that pos cuff that finally got the doctor to agree to order the cath that revealed these life threatening blockages!!!!! This was not a "coincidence" and why I truly believe he'll be fine. It was divine intervention Earlybird!:)
I'll update again tomorrow.
Giving you a huge hug for tomorrow!!
Thank you for keeping us updated.
Liz