Did I mention I’m going home?

teedubbya wrote:

Want me to come down tonight and rub your back and feed you some hotdogs?

JadeRose wrote:

By the way my new friend Buzz got out 2 days before me. His surgery was at the same time as mine. They’ve been hanging in the hotel and we’re suppose to leave today. One of his chest tube incisions started to bleed and he is now stuck in Cleveland at the er. They think it’s minor but he can’t travel.

I always wanted a friend named buzz.

teedubbya wrote:

It's an anti inflammatory medication that's fairly recently been added to the cardiovascular arsenal. There's an ongoing study with it right now.

Pericardial effusion is fluid build up within the sac around the heart. If there's too much incompressible fluid within the fibrous pericardium, it restricts motion of the heart.

Post-cardiotomy there's major local and systemic inflammatory response. Just as you get swelling when you bump your knee and stuff, same happens internally. Steroids are avoided in open heart because they also suppress rebuilding tissue at surgical sites while suppressing immune response. So recently we've been looking at other options for these situations and initial data on colchicine is positive.

danmdevries wrote:

Effen tsa screener was brutal even after I told him and showed him the fresh incision and bruising. He went after it.

teedubbya wrote:

I hope so baby bubble

teedubbya wrote:

. I always wanted a friend named buzz.

teedubbya wrote:

Hey dan

The doc mentioned that he put in an atriclip on an appendage or something like that. He seemed excited about it. Something about even less need for blood thinner which is why they discontinued them yesterday.

Not sure what it is but they gave me a tiny card I can barely read with a buncha numbers on it.

Scared me when he said he clipped my appendage.

teedubbya wrote: