{"id":400,"date":"2008-04-29T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/29\/getting-in-and-out-of-bed-some-ouch\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:33:49","slug":"getting-in-and-out-of-bed-some-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/29\/getting-in-and-out-of-bed-some-ouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting In-And-Out Of Bed&#8230; Some Ouch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an interesting question from Elias. It reads, &#8220;Dear Adam &#8211; I am scheduled for aortic valve surgery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/ross-procedure.php\">(via the Ross Procedure)<\/a> May 12, in New York City. My wife wants to know if I will be able to get in-and-out of the bed by myself when I get home. My surgeon claims this should not be a problem. I am 60 years old and in good health. Please reply. Thank you, Elias&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elias raises a great question. Why? Well, let me be the first to tell you that getting in-and-out of bed following heart valve surgery can be a bit painful. I&#8217;ve written about this in my book and in prior blogs. That said, here was my direct response to Elias (sent earlier today).<\/p>\n<p>Hi Elias,<\/p>\n<p>Nice to meet you.<\/p>\n<p>Every patient case is different. But, given what you have told me, it sounds like you will be able to get in-and-out of bed by yourself when you return home from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, you will probably be encouraged to get in-and-out of bed by yourself while in the hospital. So you know, I got out of bed myself on the second day in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>One other thought for you to consider&#8230; Some patients use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/09\/19\/recliners-beds-after-heart-valve-surgery\/\">recliners after heart surgery to minimize the pain.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you have any other questions!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","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=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}