Get Well, Sliderocker

[rick]

Hello, Forum Members --

Longtime member of the Forum -- Sliderocker -- posted this on Sunday --

Oct 2, 2022 20:16:35 GMT -5 sliderocker said:

A little late to this thread but while I was laid up in the hospital for two weeks, I happened to catch a promo for "The Goldbergs," and a lot of the promo fottage featured around Hayley Orrantia. And in my mindless haze trying to recover well enough to be discharged, I kept thinking Hayley is the girl to play Linda in the movie version of her book "Simple Dreams." I hope she would be given every consideration to be the one to play Linda. I was sold the first moment I saw her.

As to my hospitalization, I entered the day after my 68th birthday for double bypass surgery, possibly triple bypass surgery. I came too perilously close to my 68th being my last as I had total blockage in one artery and 90% in the other. I don't know how bad the third artery was but I'm not sure I want to know. I wanted to put something out there to let everybody know why they hadn't seen me around for the past couple of weeks. I was discharged from the hospital yesterday morning, not 100% recovered, more like halfway there. I want to be quite active on the group again but I probably won't make that many contributions until I exceed being 100% recovered. Ten minutes on computer can wipe me out for the rest of the day. But, it's good to be back among my fellow Linda fans.

I hope you will please add your good wishes here for Sliderocker.

As I said in the other thread, I am sorry that you went through all of this. Thank you for letting us know. It's good to hear from you.

Please keep us posted -- as you are able -- on how you are doing.

Please rest and take care of yourself. We are sending all good thoughts for your recovery. -- Rick

[Biff McFly]

Hey, Slide, I was wondering where you were. Cardiac surgery has come a long way. The worst part was your condition before the surgery. In surgery you're zonked out, so that's the easy part. Post surgery just takes time. Get well. For those that pray, you're in our prayers. For those that hope, you're in our hopes.

[fabtastique]

Best wishes from UK Sliderocker …. Hope you are fit and well soon !

[eddiejinnj]

Wishing you a speedy recovery, slide!!! Our thoughts are with you!!! eddiejinnj

[MokyWI]

Sending well wishes and hopes for a quick recovery.

[erik]

Here's hoping for a speedy, and particularly a full, recovery for you, Slide. You have been an incredibly important contributor to this forum.

[prisonerindisguise]

I've also had cardiac surgery (though nothing as serious as this) and so I know a little bit of what you may be going through. If it helps at all, every day is going to be better than the last. Some days will be small, incremental improvements, and others might feel like a magician waved his wand and partially healed you overnight. Eventually, once you're fully recovered (and I have faith that you will fully recover as you're already past the riskiest point) you'll feel better than before.

And please, rest. If something makes you feel tired, then take a rest and see if you can do it later, or even the next day. But also, do what you can every day, and try to do a bit more the next day. Doing things (even little things) will aid in your recovery. Write 5 sentences in a journal one day, and 6 the next. Walk unassisted across the living room one day, and unassisted across the living room and to the kitchen the next. Just don't push yourself too far.

[moe]

Hang in there and get well soon!  There's a bunch of us rooting for you.

[sliderocker]

I want to thank everyone for the well wishes; they are appreciated as the road to recovery has been slower than what I expected. I've been meaning to give everyone an update but have been busy with home health trying to do just the simplest of things. I completed the home health and now have cardiac rehab and additional physical therapy at the hospital to look forward to, if the insurance will cover it. It hasn't been without setbacks as one of the medications I was on proved to have serious side effects of dizziness and a few falls.

I was advised to go to the ER and get checked out on the falls as one was extremely serious.Unfortunately, that proved fruitless as I was waiting in ER to be seen for a couple of hours even though I was the only one there for about an hour. My cardiologist was not hapy to hear about that and advised me to call 911 the next time for an ambulance if it happened again. However, he took me off the medicine which was causing the problems and I haven't had a problem since then.

I believe my heart is getting stronger but my doctors want it stronger as I think they have a concern about the heart attack I didn't know I'd had some time before, and they don't know when it occurred. I guess they have a right to be concerned and it's a concern to me. And I will try to follow the orders of my doctors to the best of my abilities. I want to be around for a long time to come.

And again, my apologies for the delay in replying. I didn't know the recovery process could be so slow.