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re: Any experiences with bypass surgery?
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:08 pm to CroakaBait
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:08 pm to CroakaBait
The day of my quadruple bypass I weighed 252. Three days later, had eaten very little, I weighed 275. That is how much fluid had built up in my body. They installed 3 drains to help get rid of it.
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Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:13 pm to StringedInstruments
It's a down right brutal operation. Godspeed.
Posted on 6/29/26 at 11:45 pm to CroakaBait
My dad had a quintuple bypass and a pacemaker. Good advice you shared
Posted on 6/30/26 at 1:27 am to StringedInstruments
I tried it once but it was really tricky. Ended up killing the guy. That was my first experience.
But seriously, heart doctors are the biggest fear mongers in the doctor world. Don’t let him do it. He’ll be dead in 2-3 years if he has it. Once they get their hooks into him, it will be one procedure after another. They’ll kill your old man. Let him live in peace for his last years.
But seriously, heart doctors are the biggest fear mongers in the doctor world. Don’t let him do it. He’ll be dead in 2-3 years if he has it. Once they get their hooks into him, it will be one procedure after another. They’ll kill your old man. Let him live in peace for his last years.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 7:58 am to StringedInstruments
Not bypass but had emergency open-heart surgery to replace my mitral and aortic valves about 5 years ago at 40. Congenitally defective aortic valve, took my mitral valve with it. I don't remember much after my dad rushed me to the ER until I was brought off the vent for the second time about 11 days later, was in the hospital for about a month. Recovery was difficult but the 2 months cardiac rehab made all the difference. I never suffered pain from my sternum, lucky in that regard. Not so lucky that the new mechanical mitral valve developed a PVL so I had to get a second surgery about 9 months later to replace it again. At least it was a planned event that time, at the Texas Heart Hospital in Plano which is an amazing facility with an excellent team. Recovery wasn't fun the second go around either but was much faster and I've been able to have a more or less normal life since, except I sound like a ticking wall clock to anyone in a quiet room with me now.... 
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:17 am to StringedInstruments
Whether it's a walk in the park or not, it needs to be done. He can get a second opinion, but if the blockages are bad enough to require surgery... that's not really something you can get around. In my experience cardiologists love to put stents in everything, so he's beyond that point.
The main thing is to follow the post-op directions. And encourage him to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Getting to ideal bodyweight, not smoking, and getting some moderate exercise every day will help him feel better long term.
The main thing is to follow the post-op directions. And encourage him to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Getting to ideal bodyweight, not smoking, and getting some moderate exercise every day will help him feel better long term.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 8:18 am
Posted on 6/30/26 at 8:59 am to StringedInstruments
Those breathing exercises can be a pain
Posted on 6/30/26 at 9:35 am to StringedInstruments
Not a bypass, but my brother had to have a valve fixed by a fairly invasive method due to the extent of rhe repair.
Sore for a while. Told his employer he would be back in three weeks. Called them at 2 and a half and added time to that. Employer laughed and said he knew it would be longer and had already prepared for him to be off 2 months.
Sore for a while. Told his employer he would be back in three weeks. Called them at 2 and a half and added time to that. Employer laughed and said he knew it would be longer and had already prepared for him to be off 2 months.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 9:38 am to StringedInstruments
I am really surprised they haven't come up with a way to do bypass surgery without having to crack open the chest.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 9:46 am to Kracka
I imagine it's less painful than spreading the ribs.
Posted on 6/30/26 at 10:04 am to Kracka
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I am really surprised they haven't come up with a way to do bypass surgery without having to crack open the chest.
Thay have, it is called a MIDCAB (minimally invasive heart bypass) it is an off-pump procedure, and they don't cut the sternum. NC Tigah alluded to how heart surgery has developed. There are more and more less invasive surgeries that handle cases that used to be on-pump open heart, and open heart now does a lot of cases that no surgeon would touch in the past.
This post was edited on 6/30/26 at 10:05 am
Posted on 6/30/26 at 10:55 am to Kracka
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I am really surprised they haven't come up with a way to do bypass surgery without having to crack open the chest.
Oh they have, as well as valve replacements, even mechanical ones. My second valve replacement surgery was a robotically assisted port procedure, went in near my right armpit. They basically spread the ribs right there, collapse the lung, and do everything through about a 4" hole. My dad's valve replacement was a keyhole procedure, just a small opening down through the very top of the sternum. Technology is getting better all the time too, in 20 years it could be a damn near outpatient procedure for a heart valve.
Posted on 7/1/26 at 7:53 am to StringedInstruments
I worked as a nurse in Cardiothoracic Surgery for 13.5 years and was in 1000’s of them. One very important question that may not have been asked yet is what is his ejection fraction? That is critical knowledge when going on pump, and especially when coming off pump. They should have done, or will be doing an echo which would give you that information. If his ejection fraction is normal and his vessels are amenable to bypass (of normal/average diameter), cardiac bypass surgery is pretty cookie cutter, if you will.
Posted on 7/1/26 at 8:00 am to StringedInstruments
They are pretty routine now.
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