You're young and healthy, you'll be out in 5 day max I'm betting! Walk, do your breathing exercises, and REST OFTEN AND AS MUCH AS YOU NEED TO! Take care of yourself and don't get worried about...
Again, I'm not a doctor, just speaking from my experience and research. When mine was diagnosed, the doctors were sorry to hear I was taking baby asprin as they would have to wait for 5 days to do...
The sooner the better, I say. Seems kind of strange they would wait for over a week. It takes 5 days for blood thinners to void your system. Calcification is a concern, indeed. Kind of a conflicted...
I had a total pericardiectomy in Febuary. I checked into the hospital on a Tuesday, and had the surgery the next morning. They have to split your sternum to gain access to your heart. It is a...
With people like you supporting him, he will make it. I never knew how important support is from other people until I went through this. My surgeon said mine was the worst he had seen and I'm here...
After I had my pericardiectomy, I was visiting with my cardiologist about my mother-in-law, 80, and not able to walk well, etc. with bad knees, about her heart valve that another cardiologist wanted...
/community/emoticons/yeah.gif Glad to read everything went well. I have been watching with interest the posts on pericardiectomies. I had mine in February. Surgeon told me that it had thickened to...