In all that time I have never, to my remembrance, said anything about my health other than the short hospitalization in September of 2017 for Pancreatitis. That being said, I will go into some detail now about an up-coming event.
This is a letter I sent a couple days ago to my 3 brothers:
"For several months I
have been experiencing some shortness of breath and heart pounding when
exerting. Finally went to emergency at hospital one evening a couple
weeks ago during an incident when I took my blood pressure and it was extremely
high.
They did several tests that night and kept me
over night, setting up a stress test for me a few days later. With the
results of the test I was set up for a heart catheterization at Bryan East in
Lincoln two days ago.
It was thought that
possibly some stints may be called for, from the earlier tests.
During the
catheterization test they determined that one was 98 percent blocked with two
others over 50 percent blocked and questionable on some more. It was the
position of the blocked vessels and the number that made the doctor say surgery
is necessary, rather than stints.
He was hesitant to do it
today, Friday, as he will be gone all next week, so open-heart surgery is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 4th at 8 am with my arrival time at 5 am.
I'm to take it easy, not
stress anything for the 12 days between the catheterization test and the
4th. Will go over to Lincoln Monday evening and will be in a hotel
with Cam's and can report to Bryan East by 5am Tuesday morning.
Will expect 6 to 8 weeks
for recovery, so we are scrubbing many of the short trips with the trailer for
June and July. And, of course, our involvement with the Glenn Miller Festival
the first weekend of June. Hoping to still be able to do the August
trip, but will see how it goes.
Understand the risks and
odds of something going wrong, but am assuming all will go well."
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Since then have found that our son and daughter-in-law, Cam and Patty Miles from Marengo, IA, as well as daughter, Michelle Miles, from Columbus, OH will be here; Michelle coming next weekend and Cam's will meet us in Lincoln the night before my surgery. By getting a hotel in Lincoln we won't have to get up quite so early for what would have been the 2 hour drive and be at the hospital by 5 am on Tuesday morning. Brother Roger, who lives in Lincoln, called to say he would stop by the hospital that day.
Not especially looking forward to this; however, am told it is quite necessary to avoid an impending heart attack.
Will do some more blogging before June 4th and see what comes then.
'Nuff said, Lynn
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