Excellent Patient Quote: Heart Surgery Recovery By Kathy Benson
By Adam Pick on September 25, 2007
It happens often!
I will be talking with a heart valve surgery patient when they say something ab-sooooo-lutely brilliant.
As I learned when I had my aortic and pulmonary valves replaced, speaking with former cardiac surgery patients was incredibly helpful. There is a sense of related-ness that is simply unmatched.
For this reason, I started a new category in my blog called “Excellent Patient Quotes”. I’m going to use this space to share with you some of the inspirational, wise, motivational and loving comments that I hear when I’m out speaking with heart valve surgery patients and caregivers.
Today’s excellent quote is about the recovery from heart valve surgery. As I personally experienced, recovering from open heart surgery can be extremely difficult for the patient and their caregivers.
Kathy Benson – Heart Valve Surgery Patient (Minnesota)
Anyways, Kathy Benson from Minnesota recently had an excellent quote about mis-managing your expectations of recovery and comparing yourself to other patients. Here is what Kathy revealed:
“Don’t gauge your surgery and recovery on others. Each surgery is unique and each patient will handle things in a different manner. It seems that patients strive to become normal as fast as they can. What is normal? We will forever be heart surgery patients.”
In my opinion, that could not be more true.
Keep on tickin!
Adam
Written by Adam Pick
- Patient & Website Founder
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Sue Daugherty says on September 28th, 2013 at 4:30 pm |
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Heart valve surgery this Thus, Oct. 3! Most worried about recovery! I have only two grown boys (??) at home to help (yiks!). Concerned about personal care! What other important info can you give about the first few weeks? |
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