angie_ congrats! job well done...it actually sounds like a carbon copy of my story...right down to the bleeding and laying flat for what seemed an eternity. i also was worried about the coughing...
i am so happy for you...you are now on the track to a better you! by the time you read this you will be home and taking it easy...yay! please keep me informed. it is like pregnancy stories...i want...
i also hear dr. ted feldman (sp?)out of northwestern is someone of interest. i know someone who worked for him and says he is the best....
angie hold on friend! this is tough, i know. i went more through it when i had lyme disease and everyone thought i was crazy. it is so hard to keep the "fight" for your own health up, but you...
Angie I went to NY Pres/Cornell. My surgeon was Dr. Geoffrey Bergman. Some quick background... I felt I knew everything there was to know about the surgery and the possible after effects. I had asked...
cassii- Hope this finds you better...I am 7 weeks out and had the same bleed problem you did. Big male nurse (who was an angel) trying to stop the bleeding...huge black bruise. It went away in two...
Angie- Yes, a very similar story, down to my doctor telling me that while I ran my marathon he wouldn't be able to function! I am so blessed with my cardiologist and it sounds like you are too....
angielov- I am also a female/mother/athlete. I had my pfo closure done 7 weeks ago. My story is similar to many you will read...adult athlete, training for triathlon, has a stroke, find a pfo, etc. I...
greenhope... i did miss your beginning...3 days and many different stories. how active where you before your heart started to fail (you were saved so you could help all these other people through a...
i have been reading the healingwell pfo posts for three days...sucking what info. i can get. at one time feeling, "wow, i am not the only one" and at other times feeling, "holy heck! i am not sure if...