The surgeries are over and I was sent to a normal room. First time in a week with no heart monitor.
Dr Gopal, the vascular surgeon, recommended highly by me, is a straight shooter. He came in and said: Your vein is very diseased. You could get clots again. Later in life you can have sores on your leg which could be difficult to heal. Wear the pressure sock to delay this....
That was discouraging. No reassurance that this operation healed anything. It did eliminate the immediate pressure problem and the prognosis from a medical perspective is for for several evades in the future which could have been occurring in a very few years if not for the operation.
If I can inject myself every day with Lovenox I can go home. Giving myself a shot is not a pleasant thought but I will do it to be at home! Bring on the needle!
Longer term: What does this mean? Are there life direction decisions to make now growing from this? Doctors are not saying do not fly, so nothing definite coming from there.
One again I am in a preference for passivity for decisions to be more clear cut. Exert faith is the operative word, not formed in me but a reoccurring theme as I put this into a blog today.
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