Larry's Guestbook

Crusher, on a lark I googled you to see where you are since it's been a while since we last talked(LOL). Saw this valve surgery thing and thought I'd wish you the best! Pseudo.

Are you still checking this blog? I am pleased to hear of your quick recovery....but I wasn\'t really worried. I know that only the good die young. (just kidding) What I meant to say is that my prayers paid off. Sending you a sunny day, Michelle(Mickey)

Glad your doing well, I\'m waiting to come see you cuz I feel bad drinking your bud light in front of you so I\'m goin to wait till you can drink that crap you drink! Love ya Brah!!!

Hi Larry, pleased to hear that you\'re home again. Take it easy mate! Hoping that you\'ll be feeling a bit more comfortable each day as your body heals. Love and hugs, Julie

I can\'t believe you are home already. So happy the surgery was a success! Take it easy & be a good patient for Kathy. :) Everyone has been asking about you at work.

Hey Larry, So glad to hear you\'re doing well. Can\'t wait to meet \'the new improved Larry Conant\'. We\'re thinking of dropping in Thursday after work if that\'s o.k. If you can let us know. Jeannine

Good Morning Everyone, Spent most of the day with Dad yesterday. He\'s doing fantastic. He has checked off 2 of the lovely body functions that have to happen before he leaves-he\'s peed and farted. If you\'ve never h ad surgery with heavy anesthesia, you may not know how great and exciting this really is. :) Your bowels, digestion being one of the least important functions in an emergency, are the last to wake up and start working properly after anesthesia. He farted yesterday and that means his bowels are waking up, a very good sign, and now we get to wait and celebrate when he poops! Just like being a toddler all over again. After having a catheter in for a couple days it becomes very difficult to pee, it took him a while and he was scared they would put the catheter back in, but he managed to pee just in the nick of time. He\'s now peeing on his own and easily. :) Didn\'t you want to know all this? Less gross, but equally wonderful things: He\'s eating solid food, had a good full dinner the last 2 nights, if you can imagine, he doesn\'t have much of an appetite so he only picked at his lunch, I wasn\'t there for breakfast, but I think he ate decently then. He also went for 2 walks yesterday. One of them he walked all the way to the waiting room and came to get us. I wasn\'t given the distance of his walks this time, but we were quite pleased. He\'s quite tired during the day and takes frequent naps. And he was extremely tired last night when we left. He had a hard night sleeping between Saturday and Sunday, it\'s still difficult to breath, especially while laying down, so he went back on oxygen for a little while. He also went into afibrillation, not the severe type on ER that requires shocking, just enough to make him feel funny and for the nurses to give him some meds. That\'s a very common side effect of this surgery. It should only happen as the heart works to repair itself and with the medication it was gone and the nurses (including Artie, Caysea\'s husband) were pleased. Artie also told me something that made a lot of sense-if you break your arm, they put it in a cast and you have to rest it, not use if for a while, if you break your heart, you have to keep using it while it gets better, so it\'s going to be more stressed out and show signs with things like higher heart rate, afibrillation, and tiredness. We are all still very pleased with the progress and feel good. Jack (his brother), Dave (my partner), Caysea, and Artie all went back home yesterday. I will be here until midday tomorrow. Thank you all for your messages, thoughts, and visits. We all appreciate knowing how much he is cared about. I must start my day so I can get to the hospital. Have a good one. Coral