C Craft
Well-Known Member
First let me say I believe in the power of prayer!
My wife will be going in on Monday for surgery to open her right side carotid artery. They have been monitoring her carotid arteries for the past couple of years when they first discovered hers were partially blocked. She uses the same cardiologist I have used for years and he once told me that this was a fine line. They do not like to operate unless the blockage is at least 50-60% blocked as the danger is too great, and if the blockage gets over 70% they won't operate as the danger is also too great.
She went in recently for a scan on her carotid artery, which is basically a test to see how bad the blockage is and that information will act as a road map to the surgery later if needed. That scan showed she had a 70% blockage and possibly according to the pathologist a 75% blockage. At her pre-op for the surgery, Thursday they told her all the %'s of the odds on death, stroke, and possible paralysis, as well as any other complications that might arise from the surgery.
She had it in her head that it would be a small incision, however they informed her it would be approximately a six inch incision! Of course she is not happy about that! She is trying to put on a brave face but, I can tell she is very worried. I can't say I am not worried as well. Even though this kind of surgery has become much more common place it is still major surgery!
She has been there for me thru thick and thin all these years, and deserves much better than our lives have been the past few years. She was stricken with a disease that has done spinal damage and she suffers from nerve pain and is unable to have the kind of life she had before all this. It seems sometimes she can't catch a break. We have know each other now about 39 years and we have been married 37 of those years, and this is just one more of those things that comes around in what we call life! They have told her that there will be a six to eight week recovery for her after surgery! I know after I had my quadruple bypass there were days when I wasn't sure if I could make it back to something like a normal life and I worry she won't want to push herself after surgery!
It would mean so much to my wife and to myself, if you could just find a minute to say a prayer for her!
My wife will be going in on Monday for surgery to open her right side carotid artery. They have been monitoring her carotid arteries for the past couple of years when they first discovered hers were partially blocked. She uses the same cardiologist I have used for years and he once told me that this was a fine line. They do not like to operate unless the blockage is at least 50-60% blocked as the danger is too great, and if the blockage gets over 70% they won't operate as the danger is also too great.
She went in recently for a scan on her carotid artery, which is basically a test to see how bad the blockage is and that information will act as a road map to the surgery later if needed. That scan showed she had a 70% blockage and possibly according to the pathologist a 75% blockage. At her pre-op for the surgery, Thursday they told her all the %'s of the odds on death, stroke, and possible paralysis, as well as any other complications that might arise from the surgery.
She had it in her head that it would be a small incision, however they informed her it would be approximately a six inch incision! Of course she is not happy about that! She is trying to put on a brave face but, I can tell she is very worried. I can't say I am not worried as well. Even though this kind of surgery has become much more common place it is still major surgery!
She has been there for me thru thick and thin all these years, and deserves much better than our lives have been the past few years. She was stricken with a disease that has done spinal damage and she suffers from nerve pain and is unable to have the kind of life she had before all this. It seems sometimes she can't catch a break. We have know each other now about 39 years and we have been married 37 of those years, and this is just one more of those things that comes around in what we call life! They have told her that there will be a six to eight week recovery for her after surgery! I know after I had my quadruple bypass there were days when I wasn't sure if I could make it back to something like a normal life and I worry she won't want to push herself after surgery!
It would mean so much to my wife and to myself, if you could just find a minute to say a prayer for her!