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Hi Tia! great to hear from you! Glad you are doing well! but sorry to hear you have had other health issues along the way!! It\'s a hard row to hoe at time eh!!! My Surgery seems so far behind me now! but never far from my mind! I feel great with just the odd blip\'s here and there but nothing to worry about!! I hope you continue to feel well & happy! you take care of yourself! love and prayers always Julie oxoxo

Hi There Tia!! Thank you so very much for your message! i am doing fine! feeling so much more healthy since my surgery! i can run once more!! I hope that you are keeping fine and dandy! and reeping the benefits of your surgery? its been 8 months both our surgery has\'nt it flown by? lots of love to you and your family xxxx Julie Taylor xxxx

Hi Tia, Glad to see your post. I can relate to feeling tired, etc. Fortunately, I had blood transfusions in the hosptial which helped, but I was anemic when I got home. My hemoglobin and hematocrit increased as of last week, but are still a little below normal so I am trying to improve my diet with meat, shellfish, beans, etc. There is no doubt that a low blood count will make you feel very tired - and then there is the normal tired feeling of going through recovery. My sternotomy scar is is also itchy now, but has healed nicely. I\'m greasing it up with Neosporin which seems to help a little. The large incision scar in my groin (where they hook up the bypass machine) has several hard lumps around it. Remember that I was put on bypass three times. All my other scars had the same kind of hard lumps, but are getting smaller. This one is more stubborn and I\'m putting an ice pack on it at night. I guess we will have good days and bad days and will just have to accept that. For me, I find that I must not lie down during the day as lying down seems to make everything worse. Like you, I don\'t always recognize my progress, so I\'ve started keeping a journal of all the things I can do today that I could not do yesterday or a month ago. My best wishes to you for a speedy recovery. Thinking of you. Ruth Howell

Hi Tia, Glad to hear you have been able to get some relief. I too have gotten back to my massage therapist......it is a nice relief from the rehab. I can\'t believe you only have 4 more sessions!! Did you go the whole 3 months (36 sessions)? I have a few more sessions before I \"graduate\" so I am beginning to work out on my own in addition to doing that. I have been back at work full time since April and that is going well too. I am able to keep up with everything and the students have taken me back with open arms, thank god! Now I am ready to finish out the school year and begin to prepare for next year! I bet you too are getting anxious and miss the kids, at least a little bit! Keep staying strong and do well! Lori Wakat

Glad to know that you are tolerating the exercise from cardiac rehab. You have continued to be in my prayers. Since baseball season has started, my schedule is (ir will be if the weather cooperates) a little more hectic, but I am sure that we can still find some time to get together---soon! Cindy

Tia, Just a thought: With your fibromyalgia issues it may be difficult for you to determine what is fibro. pain and what is realted to your surgery. I went to very casual, easy exercises classes last year and, due to my fibro. was in so much pain and so exhausted I couldn\'t continue. I guess I will have to deal with the same thng after my surgery. My plan is if I develop that all over aching associated with fibro. I\'m not doing it or will cut way back. I know you know your body best - so just do what feels right for you and don\'t let anybody push you too far. Take it slow - and best wishes. Ruth

Hi Tia, I guess I wish they would of told us about the whole A-Fib thing, but then again there may be a whole bunch of other \"issues\" they could of told us about too.... We need to be thankful for our good health TODAY!! Getting into rehab will make you feel good..... as will knowing you don\'t have any fluid around the heart. Good luck with this and let us know! Lori Wakat

I am so gblad that you are in sinus rhythym. I know how unsettling that can be. I went into surgery with Afib and they did a maze procedure along with mitral valve replacement. I was constantly going in and out all the time for the first two months. Now i am in rhythm but still have an occassional missed beat or an extra one. My Dr tells me that i might have to live them forever. I will gladly take that anyday,than being out of rhythym occassionally. Sara

Hi Tia, It sounds like you\'re on the right road now. I wish you all the best and am so sorry for your setbacks. It sounds like this A-fib thing is quite common post surgery. I hope that gets under control quickly. All my best. Ruth Howell

Tia, Sorry to hear all of the news......but it sounds like you are heading in the right direction. Some how I always get a sense of relief now when going to the doctor\'s office. At least you are in the right place when they find something not quite right......Keep us updated tomorrow!!! Lori Wakat

Hi Tia I hope that all goes well at the cardiologist and great blessings that you don\'t have to go back to the hospital. Sending good healing vibes and prayers your way. Be Blessed Vickie

Hi Tia - it\'s great that you are doing so well and it gives the rest of us something to really look forward to as far as the energy gain! I know I\'m ready for some. I hope you continue to improve and recover so well! Be Blessed Vickie

Hi Tia, I\'m so glad you\'ve gotten things under control and it sounds like you\'re doing well now. As for vision, I have read that you should not get new glasses before or right after heart surgery because your vision will be changing. I guess eye doctors are like everyone else - they want the business. smile. My very very best to you. Ruth Howell

It was so good to be able to visit with you the other evening, though I wished you had not been back in the hospital! I am glad that you are home once again and hopefully on the road to recovery. Please keep in touch as you move forward. Also, check with the eye doctor on those glasses. You know first hand that mistakes can be made.

Tia: Advice I got from my eye doctor: surgery/anesthesia changes your eyes and you won\'t know for at least 3 months whether your Rx needs changing. Wish I knew you were getting new glasses just before surgery. I would have advised waiting. I am not sure, but I do think that the anesthesia relaxes the whole body, eyes included. I know that every time I\'ve had major surgery (4) my eyesight was different immediately after the surgery and doctors told me NOT to worry about it for at least 3 months. Sometimes your Rx changes and sometimes it doesn\'t, but your eyes almost always seem blurry after major surgery. Give it time. Terry C

Hi Tia Congrats on your succesfull surgery. I, and a few others had vision problems after surgery. My problem was occasional bouts of blurred vision lasting several minutes and then disappearing for several days, only to return. Now, a year later I rarely get them. Just to be sure, wouldn\'t be a bad idea to have the prescription checked (mistakes can be made). Keep healing. Fran

Hi Tia, good to read you are back home and on your recovery path. I guess some of the bumps on the road are a little trickier than others; kinda like the roads here in Quebec in the springtime. Take care..... Eric

Tia: So glad you\'re recovering. What an odd, not heart related thing to happen. Hope you can get this under control and are well on your way to recovery. Terry C.

Tia! i am sorry to read that you are back in Hospital.... been thinking of you and how you are doing? hope you are not in for to long? I am doing ok! (i think)? slow but sure progress! take care will be in touch soon xxxx Julie Taylor

Tia, Sorry to hear about your set back but you remember that I too had ended up back in the hospital. Know that you are/were in the right place. The doctors are great and will take special care of YOU!!!! Be patient and be well.......thoughts and prayers to you! Lori Wakat

Hi Tia, hope you\'re still taking it easy and recovering well. Let us know how you are doing. I am still waiting for the call and looking at early to mid April for my surgery... Eric B.