Larry's Posts

Out of intensive care, and now in the cardiac ward. Not hooked up to too much anymore, able to get up and go for short walks by ourselves, Larry is beginning to feel much better. It is good to be off the morphine drip, which has made him a little spaced out. He gets very tired and needs lots of rest. Home will be much quieter than the hospital environment. The physios here have been great in helping deal with lung congestion due to fluid build up following the anaesthetic.

Thank you everyone for messages of support.They do make a difference. Larry, in intensive care, is already euphoric about how much easier breathing has become. Lots of the tubes have been removed, and he is looking, and feeling quite well. He has already been for a short walk and found it much easier than he expected. Clear fluids for lunch weren't all that exciting, so looking forward to solid food tomorrow. Coughing overnight was a bit of a problem, so he is doing his breathing exercises a little more enthusiastically than he had been prior to the operation. He has been cleared to leave intensive care as soon as there is a bed available in the cardio ward, probably tomorrow morning. All in all, things are going well, and even with all our reading, much better than we hoped for.

Surgery day today. All went well, and now Larry, still under anaesthetic, appears to be resting comfortably, for the time being. We arrived at the hospital at 6.45am, and by 7.45 Larry had been taken to be prepped for the procedure. It wasn't until 1.30pm that the doctor rang me to say that Larry was just leaving the operating theatre for intensive care. At 2.45pm we were finally allowed in to see him, still not conscious, and hooked up to a host of machines with a variety of tubing. He is to be kept sedated probably till the early hours of tomorrow. It is good to have had the surgery, and to be looking forward to things getting better from now on.