I survived triple heart bypass

larry from md. · Feb 20, 2012

Got home today after suviveing surgry.It was so painfull i actually thought i might have been better to have just stayed home.Still looks like a long recovery.

Frankmn · Feb 20, 2012

My father had that done in a kind of emergency situation about 4 years ago and it drastically improved his health. He is 82 now and he can still help when reroofing his buildings. Actually he is still pretty good help. Hang in there, you'll be glad you had it. They told him if he would have been a few years older, they probably wouldn't have done it.

donjr · Feb 20, 2012

Welcome to the 'zipper club'. Where did thye do it?

oldtanker · Feb 20, 2012

FIL had that done a couple of years ago. Went in for a fore a scope, comes to in the recovery and the Doc tells him he has to have a triple....he says when......tomorrow at 8 AM. While he was recovering he told the doc at a check up that he would have healed faster if they hadn't filleted him.

Good luck......FIL is still kicking, be 80 this summer.

Rick

Jerry/MT · Feb 20, 2012

I had that done about 22 years ago. Just follow the doctors orders, don"t do any lifting and do your exercises and you"ll come out fine.

larry from md. · Feb 20, 2012

Washington hospital center.

donjr · Feb 20, 2012

Went in for a cat, doc says I need two. They did five- about twelve years ago. Just do what the doc tells you, in about three months he'll let you do a little, about six to pretty fuul duty. 'Bout a year for full recovery. Just DO NOT try any thing heavy for about six months. It takes a while for that breast bone to knit.

Anonymous-0 · Feb 20, 2012

Had mine done 15yrs. ago and I'm still logging my own firewood&go hunting with the guys.
GOD BLESS
P.S. This oct I will be 69
Our only dauther at age 40 is going to her first baby so I will be around for a long time!!

Glen SW Wi · Feb 20, 2012

Had five of them back 07. I didn't have much pain at all. Just some tritches in the chest muscles. Turned 75 last year and can do everything I always did, just tire out a little faster. Run that treadmill once a year and ask the cardiologist if he can speed it up and raise the elevation.

Geo-TH,In · Feb 20, 2012

Let's pray you don't get a staff infection or a blood clot. Brother had both. Hope you have a speedy recovery.
george

rick2 in ohio · Feb 20, 2012

im only 55 had two stints put in a year ago i can do anything i did before but only last about half the time get really tired.anyone else experience this.
RICK

504 · Feb 20, 2012

Wife had her first at 39, two bypasses,mitrail(sp) valve repair and a pacemaker, next at 49 with a couple of stints in between. Just do what the Doc says(wife won t)walk, walk, walk, and walk some more.

ridgelane · Feb 20, 2012

I had two stents at 55 and still going strong, better than before.

sotxbill · Feb 20, 2012

you now have a life expectancy of 7 years longer than normal.. those who have sucessful bypass end up living 7years longer than average, so your in the longevity club..

either way.. glad you made it.. sorry we cant do much about the pain but will pray for you anyway.

larry@stinescorner · Feb 20, 2012

we wish you a speedy recovery ,glad everthing went well

Lesformore · Feb 20, 2012

You will be a while getting better. I'm 73 now and had a quadruple bypass when I was 64. The first 2 months after surgery are tough. You have to do the exercises the doctor tells you to do and take your medication. I'm not that bad off now, I can't walk very far because I run out of breath and my calf muscles cramp up and hurt. They recover in a minute or two. You must keep walking or things will get worse instead of better.

fixerupper · Feb 20, 2012

I too wish you a speedy recovery. Keep us posted on your progress. Jim

BigMarv1085 · Feb 20, 2012

Had one 2 years ago.1 stint, 2 weeks from work, no pain but have a little every now and then and had a few twitches everyonce in a while.

Ivan Grant · Feb 20, 2012

I went through the same thing a year ago,you will get stronger every day.Right after the tripple bypass operation , it was easy to become very discouraged but as time goes by you will be stronger.take care

kruser · Feb 20, 2012

Good Luck Larry!

Broke my HEART tonight when I took ze Dottir to volleyball practice tonight. Wife has been going to Dog classes on Monday nights before - BUT tonight she helped set up a nnalert FUND Raiser before going to ze Dog class.

Stay tuned to Dear Abby

Leroy · Feb 20, 2012

Had 5 last June 8 and was in hospital 6 days, Went in at midnight with a heart atack. 2 at 99% and other 3 over 85%. In location the stents they tried would not work. Oct-nov I was starting to be able to do decent on work. Just saw heart doctor today. See me in 6 months. First of dec they decided I was well enough for the rotator cuff surgery I should have had before the heart atack. Shoulder hurt a lot more than the bypass did but the bypass I was week with. Allowed to drive on July 16 and July 18 drove 166 mile one way to tractor show. I turned 68 last Sept. 11. Sounds like no work till April-May for shoulder. I tried the heart rehab but due to this shoulder I could not do it as it was most arm excercizes and with torn ligiments to painfull. When they told me it had to be I told them to just let me die a painfree death, said they could not do that, I signed the paper expecting I would not come out of the operation alive. Turned out while I was in in the other hospital a lady I had met and her son is doing my mechanick work did not make it. Came thru the heart ok but when took catheter out started bleeding and could not get it to stop. 2-3 days after I was home went to see her in the funeral home in my house slippers anti swelling socks and shorts to see her. I had mine at Lima Memorial, Lima, Ohio.

Mike in MI · Feb 20, 2012

Larry,
Glad to hear you recovered ok! I had my triple bypass in 2002. Spent 3-1/2 weeks in hospital and don"t hardly remember any of it.
From what the family was telling me it was a good think I don"t remember any of it.
One of the bypasses collasped and had a stent done also have a defribulator few months later.
It took me about a year to get motivated again.
I only left me with 25% of my heart left and I had to retire.
I still tinker with my tractors off and on I don"t like sitting around so I keeping myself busy doing something but not as much as I"d like too. It took me quite a while to make just a few rounds mowing my lawn and I had to go back and sit down for a while. I improved 10% more of my heart since then. Still have the pains from the open heart surgery. But I don"t think its going to go away. Give it time you be doing more each month that goes bye. Take Care! Mike

David G · Feb 20, 2012

Hope you have a good recovery, take it easy

Robert in Md. · Feb 20, 2012

Hang in there Larry,it will get better, I had four bypasses in l998 at age 55 , stayed in hosipital 6 days. My leg gave me more problems than my chest, in fact my leg is still tender. Had a stent in 2007 where one of the bypasses was grafted. So far I have made out fine.

Wayne from Wi · Feb 21, 2012

Kruser, You have my sympathys..sympathithees.. however it is spelled. My wife would be sleeping in the doghouse if she did that. PS. (The dog house is avaliable for rent. (cheap) Wayne

Dennis (VA) · Feb 21, 2012

Larry,

So glad you got to the hospital and had the operation. Things will keep getting better as time goes by. Ask your Doc about exercise and diet. This the long term answer to survival. Good luck.

greygoat · Feb 21, 2012

I had a Quadruple, at Mayo clinic, came home on
the 5th day, drove in for checkup a week later,
resumed "relations" after a month, as my Doctor
said "My heart was strong enough for relations"!
I had a "Blockage" caused by scar tissue,last
fall, on one of the grafts. I'm on a Mayo Clinic
experimental drug, not yet approved by the FDA,
and feel great. I'll be 69 in 3 weeks.

NEsota · Feb 21, 2012

My triple bypass was 4-5 years ago, everything in the chest area went well but the leg that donated the vein had severe complications. Prior to my heart attack I looked upon people with a heart problem as damaged goods. That changed and because I follow medical instructions I feel good and am doing aerobic exercise several times a week. Maybe I am kidding myself but I figure every day I do them adds a day to my life expectancy. Whenever someone requests that I do something physical, that I do not want to do, I remind them that I have a “heart condition”.
Longevity

buickanddeere · Feb 21, 2012

Good news that you made it through.

rrlund · Feb 21, 2012

Great news! Been wondering how you came out.

NEsota · Feb 21, 2012

LONGEVITY, goofed in earlier reply-post.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rich people live longer 161138978.html

hintocw · Feb 21, 2012

At age 59 (I'm 69 now) I had a heart attack at 1015 AM Sat. Nov 2. I drove myself (no other way to get there) to the local hosp., was put on the chopper to Durham NC (Duke University Medical Centre) where I underwent quad bypass surgery Wed. Nov 5. Finally left Duke Nov. 13.

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