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Long Drive
Today was a full day of driving! Last night we stayed at our second home, our usual medical center hotel. We didn’t see any of our regulars while checking in or out though. We planned to hit the beach in the evening so I was going to wear shorts but opted for something a little…
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Great Start
We were up early to get ready and load the car, we hadn’t loaded a thing up the night before. We ended up having our out of town friends crash on our couches, our spare bedrooms aren’t done yet. Well actually their old couches we bought from them when they moved! The dogs were excited…
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Celebration
I don’t know how fiscally responsible this trip is but we needed to celebrate a win! We’ll be staying on points earned from our long stay in Houston after the transplant and we’re going to be hitting up state parks for hiking and cooking a lot of our meals so it’s not like it’s a…
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That was unexpected!
Well that didn’t go as planned! The cath revealed a blockage in Amanda’s right coronary artery. This is the artery that supply’s the heart itself with blood, it was occluded 95%. All were shocked including the doctors this was totally unexpected. A blockage of this kind doesn’t normally happen in someone of Amanda’s age much…
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Waiting, the name of the game.
Never be in a hurry at a hospital! We were told to be at the hospital at 7am for a 9:15 procedure. Amanda was initially taken back quickly for vitals and lab work, I wasn’t able to go back about 45 minutes later. I met our cardiologist this morning as he was coming out of…
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3rd times a charm…
Well I’m posting to this site much sooner than we had anticipated. I love how I can keep you all up to date throughout Amanda’s surgeries and recovery but I loath having a need to log in to this site at all. Amanda’s health improved after my last post here following her last valve surgery…
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Back home
We got home around 5 or so, Amanda is feeling ok but not great. Her back has been hurting since before we left so that wasn’t great for all the bumps. The pain is in the area of her kidneys, I’m sure they had tons of junk filtered through them during the surgery. We would…
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Headed home
Amanda’s feeling better this morning so we’re headed home in a bit. She was doing better yesterday but started hurting again last night. She seemed to to sleep alright last night, hopefully she’ll be able to nap on the ride home also. I figure we should be home between 4 and 5, I’m praying traffic…
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Staying another day
Amanda is feeling a little better but not much. We’re going to stay another day just to be safe. Looking better than last night, not sure she feels it though. She took a shower earlier to get all of the hospital off. Which I’m sure made her feel better but was quickly canceled out and…
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Hospital nights
Well Amanda had a good night and still isn’t in much pain. When I got here she had already been up and walked a bit. Her back is still sore but better and she didn’t mention her neck hurting to bad. She said she got a little sleep but is still sleepy, sleep is never…
