{"id":1017,"date":"2009-12-21T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/12\/21\/video-waking-up-after-heart-surgery\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:00:21","slug":"video-waking-up-after-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/12\/21\/video-waking-up-after-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How Do You Feel Immediately After Surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients and caregivers often ask me about the immediate, post-op experience in the intensive care unit. Common questions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How long were you in the intensive care unit?<\/li>\n<li>Did you experience pain immediately?<\/li>\n<li>Was your family allowed in the ICU area?<\/li>\n<li>How many tubes were sticking out of you when you woke up?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, one of more common questions I get is, &#8220;How did you feel as you came out of general anesthesia?&#8221; Honestly, I don&#8217;t remember much &#8211; just bits and pieces of the first few hours after surgery. But, lucky for me, my family has clued me in on the <em>strange<\/em> experience of waking up after heart surgery with a ventilator tube, Foley catheter and several other tubes still inserted in my body.<\/p>\n<p>On this topic, I just read that the video below was one of YouTube&#8217;s Top 10 Videos of 2009. The video titled &#8220;David After Dentist&#8221; has been watched over 37 million times this year. It&#8217;s not an exact match to the experience of waking up after heart surgery but I think you might find some silly and honest humor as little David talks candidly with his father after dental surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[video52]txqiwrbYGrs[\/video52]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Please remember, each patient case is unique. Just because David was a tad loopy after his surgery, that does not mean you will have the same experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}