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on May 16, 2008 8:38 pm
Well hi my friends!
I got a couple pieces of good news today. First off, they did an echo of my heart to check heart function. Some of you may remember that in March of last year right before my surgery, I found out that my heart was failing and that I had cardiomyopathy. Well, he wanted to see if the malnutrition was effecting my heart. I'm happy to report that my heart is no longer enlarged. It is normal sized again. AND it is functioning normally again!! No more heart failure!! Thank you GOD!!!!!! I was SO happy to hear that.
I am suffering from bradycardia. My resting heart rate is sitting in the low 50's - high 40's. Sometimes it dips into the low 40's, but it didn't dip THAT low during my echo but sometimes it does when they take my BP so they have to make me sit up and yada yada yada and take it again. I have a VERY strong feeling that my low heart rate lead to me blacking out behind the wheel and causing my wreck a few weeks ago. When your heart rate gets low like that, it can cause not enough oxygen to get to the brain and thus lead to passing out. I really think that is what happened to me that day. So, I think if I can get the CORRECT nutrition going on in my body, I'll be able to get my heart rate moving back up into the normal range and MAYBE I can start driving again!
How am I going to get the right balance of nutrition though? Well, my other piece of good news is that I *think* my home TPN is going to get approved! My Dr. has ordered it and the dietician is working on the caloric requirements so we'll see what happens tomorrow. They aren't going to come put the PICC line in me until they know for sure if my insurance is going to approve it. My insurance requires you to require a certain amount of calories per kilo, but the dietician thinks that I will meet that with no problem. They have me NPO (nothing by mouth) now, since dinner time and I'll be this way until I go home. Boo! But then my Dr. called and wanted the PICC put in tonight and the tube feeding to start TONIGHT, but the IV team didn't come up tonight to do it, so I guess that's not happening. Maybe tomorrow. I can't wait til they get it all set up so I can go HOME!!
On to another piece of news.....my 'twin' is in the hospital too on the SAME FLOOR with me!! She was admitted three days after I was. Turns out we're both going to be getting TPN. It sucks that she's sick too, but it sure is comforting to have someone that KNOWS exactly what you're going through and can empathize with you and understand what you're feeling. I wish we were both back to normal, but we both have a feeling that all this will end up with us having our surgeries reversed and revised into sleeves. I honestly think it will solve our problems. I'm just not brave enough at this point to go ahead with it. It's a HUGE surgery and he's never done it before. But that's still a ways off yet. Now I just have to worry about getting this PICC and TPN and GO HOME!!!
Thanks for listening and all the continued support!
Be the first to leave a comment.I got a couple pieces of good news today. First off, they did an echo of my heart to check heart function. Some of you may remember that in March of last year right before my surgery, I found out that my heart was failing and that I had cardiomyopathy. Well, he wanted to see if the malnutrition was effecting my heart. I'm happy to report that my heart is no longer enlarged. It is normal sized again. AND it is functioning normally again!! No more heart failure!! Thank you GOD!!!!!! I was SO happy to hear that.
I am suffering from bradycardia. My resting heart rate is sitting in the low 50's - high 40's. Sometimes it dips into the low 40's, but it didn't dip THAT low during my echo but sometimes it does when they take my BP so they have to make me sit up and yada yada yada and take it again. I have a VERY strong feeling that my low heart rate lead to me blacking out behind the wheel and causing my wreck a few weeks ago. When your heart rate gets low like that, it can cause not enough oxygen to get to the brain and thus lead to passing out. I really think that is what happened to me that day. So, I think if I can get the CORRECT nutrition going on in my body, I'll be able to get my heart rate moving back up into the normal range and MAYBE I can start driving again!
How am I going to get the right balance of nutrition though? Well, my other piece of good news is that I *think* my home TPN is going to get approved! My Dr. has ordered it and the dietician is working on the caloric requirements so we'll see what happens tomorrow. They aren't going to come put the PICC line in me until they know for sure if my insurance is going to approve it. My insurance requires you to require a certain amount of calories per kilo, but the dietician thinks that I will meet that with no problem. They have me NPO (nothing by mouth) now, since dinner time and I'll be this way until I go home. Boo! But then my Dr. called and wanted the PICC put in tonight and the tube feeding to start TONIGHT, but the IV team didn't come up tonight to do it, so I guess that's not happening. Maybe tomorrow. I can't wait til they get it all set up so I can go HOME!!
On to another piece of news.....my 'twin' is in the hospital too on the SAME FLOOR with me!! She was admitted three days after I was. Turns out we're both going to be getting TPN. It sucks that she's sick too, but it sure is comforting to have someone that KNOWS exactly what you're going through and can empathize with you and understand what you're feeling. I wish we were both back to normal, but we both have a feeling that all this will end up with us having our surgeries reversed and revised into sleeves. I honestly think it will solve our problems. I'm just not brave enough at this point to go ahead with it. It's a HUGE surgery and he's never done it before. But that's still a ways off yet. Now I just have to worry about getting this PICC and TPN and GO HOME!!!
Thanks for listening and all the continued support!
I'M GOING HOME!!!!! 
