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Check out this site. Good luck. Maybe stenting can work?
I had triple by pass,widower artery.
The most important time after surgery was rehab for 18 days,worked ny butt off 8:30 to 11:30am and 1:30 to 3;30 various workouts,stairs,medicineball into net and having to catch it bicycle etc.
Did get a day or two off,but went home with a smile.
Times change...When CABG was first being done (~1970 +/-) pts were turned into cardiac cripples- They often stayed in hosp for months and weren't allowed any strenuous activity, and usually never returned to work...By the time I retired a few yrs ago, it was practically an Earl Scheib job- "In by 9, out by 5, Any heart, Any color."
The biggest obstacle in activity level isn't cardiac in nature, but just the healing process to repair the sawed open sternum....You must have had the new "minimally invasive CABG" where they don't open the chest up?
On discharging a pt after a CABG once, he asked me about when he could stat sexual activity again? I told him "Oh, right away...but only with your wife.... I don't want you gettig too excited."
Whether a CABG is done or stenting is performed is determined by the location & extent of the blockages. It's not really a choice based on preference.
^^^ Survival after CABG decreases steadily with time. (The surgery doesn't stop time & the aging process.)
About 90% of pts are still alive after 5 yrs, 75% at 10 yrs. ...If you're under 50 at the time of surgery, you have a 50% chance of living another 20 yrs....Naturally, if you're 70+ at the time of surge\ery, you only have a 10% chance if living 20 yrs-- you'd be 90+ by then.
My dad had his 1st bypass at age 49 in 79. Had to redo it 11 yrs later due to blockage. Never had any issues with either. He died at age 60 of lung cancer. When hos cancer was really bad, he used to say " a quick heart attack would be pretty good right now". Then he'd turn to my mom ( who took cpr classes before hos 2nd bypass), and say " AND DON'T YOU DARE BRING ME BACK!!"
I had a quadruple bypass in '21.
I never got a chance - and would never have been given a chance - to interview surgeons and review and all that stuff. The surgical outfit that did mine said I was going to get the surgeon that was scheduled.
Went in for stent on Thursday. Failed to get through. Bypass on Friday. Discharge on Tuesday.
It was not NEAR as bad as I had imagined. Wasn't fun, but it wasn't all that bad.
I signed up for rehab - 12 weeks, 3X a week - and after rehab went down to Planet Fitness and continued. I have been going 3X a week ever since, getting better and better.
I just got my 2-yr physical. Age 77. 5'10" 185. BP 125/90; Cholesterol 134; Triglycerides 64.
My diet is now mostly meat, but I do eat other things, too. No fruit, no sugar, no bread or wheat. Before this I spent my whole life eating whole wheat, oatmeal, bananas and all that nonsense. I have come to believe it was (and is) all nonsense promoted by the food processors.
My typical breakfast is Pork Chop, egg, 2 glasses water, and coffee.
FWIW: My primary care physician told me the bypass is the ONLY operation where, assuming the patient survives, he emerges a full 10 years better than he was before the operation. So I took inventory and asked myself what I wish I had done 10 years ago, and here I am.
I saw people in rehab who were doing nearly nothing! I can not imagine what those people are thinking. Some were still badly overweight and looked like the Michelin Man. I honestly wanted to choke them.
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