Good news and bad news
Talk about a roller coaster day! ! At 3pm I got the news from Empire BC/BS that they have approved my DS. That's the good news.
At 4pm at my follow-up to my stress test, the cardiologist informed me I need a caterization ASAP. If I require a stent, the surgery will have be put off 5weeks.
Better than a heart attack on the table though, right?
At 4pm at my follow-up to my stress test, the cardiologist informed me I need a caterization ASAP. If I require a stent, the surgery will have be put off 5weeks.
Better than a heart attack on the table though, right?
Found a parathyroid tumor during my pre-op testing and that delayed me as well. It was a good find though as it caused my body to steal calcium from my bones and it caused my vit D levels to drop way too low. If I had the surgery without removing the tumor and without raising my vit D, I would have been in big trouble soon afterwards. That was in March. I am finally getting the DS on Thursday.
Getting a DS probably saved your life BEFORE you even got it. You could have dropped dead at any moment from an undiagnosed stenosed cardiac artery.
However - as a note to the pre-ops - our heart tests are sometimes false positives because of fat over our chests. An abnormal reading does not always for sure reflect a problem!
Two good friends of mine, just the same age as me, had their DSs several months and a couple of years after me, respectively. I, by the way, sailed through all my pre-op stuff, just days before my 50th birthday. My male friend, who was 435 lbs and had always been supersized, was told the day before his DS that he needed a catheterization, based on his EKG or stress test (I can't remember which). He was on a short clock, both because he had to travel for his DS - and he was self-employed to boot, so he had to clear the decks to get the DS scheduled - and because his health insurance was about to run out. If he had to delay his surgery a couple of months, it might well not happen. He passed the cardiac catheterization with flying colors, and went into surgery secure in the knowledge (which he most CERTAINLY was not secure about previously!) that he was NOT a heart attack waiting to happen, and he did fabulously with his DS.
My other friend had the DS a couple of years later, and was a short woman, also over 400 lbs. She needed a cateterization at the last minute as well, and was found to be near occluded in at least two cardiac arteries. She had a 95% blockage in one. She had to be stented, and put on thrombolytics and her surgery was delayed 2 months. She probably would have died on the table if they hadn't treated the blockage first. She did fabulously with her DS (and the ***** now weighs less than me, sans plastics ...).
However - as a note to the pre-ops - our heart tests are sometimes false positives because of fat over our chests. An abnormal reading does not always for sure reflect a problem!
Two good friends of mine, just the same age as me, had their DSs several months and a couple of years after me, respectively. I, by the way, sailed through all my pre-op stuff, just days before my 50th birthday. My male friend, who was 435 lbs and had always been supersized, was told the day before his DS that he needed a catheterization, based on his EKG or stress test (I can't remember which). He was on a short clock, both because he had to travel for his DS - and he was self-employed to boot, so he had to clear the decks to get the DS scheduled - and because his health insurance was about to run out. If he had to delay his surgery a couple of months, it might well not happen. He passed the cardiac catheterization with flying colors, and went into surgery secure in the knowledge (which he most CERTAINLY was not secure about previously!) that he was NOT a heart attack waiting to happen, and he did fabulously with his DS.
My other friend had the DS a couple of years later, and was a short woman, also over 400 lbs. She needed a cateterization at the last minute as well, and was found to be near occluded in at least two cardiac arteries. She had a 95% blockage in one. She had to be stented, and put on thrombolytics and her surgery was delayed 2 months. She probably would have died on the table if they hadn't treated the blockage first. She did fabulously with her DS (and the ***** now weighs less than me, sans plastics ...).
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