Calling all Pre-Ops!
I'm going out of the country for my surgery and so I've been shopping around many surgeons. Each of them sends me pre-op information and instructions. I read them all. One of them had a tip I want to pass along.
One of the surgeons requires that his patients blow up 30 (new) small party balloons (the ones that are hard to get started) every day for two weeks before surgery. The balloons should be discarded (or given to the kids for water balloons) after they are inflated. Each time you blow one up, it should be a new one so that it's just as difficult as it was the first time. It strengthens the lungs and gets them ready for surgery.
It's especially important for us heavyweights to have the healthiest lungs we can before going under anesthesia, so I thought I'd pass this along. I'll be doing it even though the surgeon recommending it isn't the surgeon I chose. I'm an asthmatic and every precaution helps!
One of the surgeons requires that his patients blow up 30 (new) small party balloons (the ones that are hard to get started) every day for two weeks before surgery. The balloons should be discarded (or given to the kids for water balloons) after they are inflated. Each time you blow one up, it should be a new one so that it's just as difficult as it was the first time. It strengthens the lungs and gets them ready for surgery.
It's especially important for us heavyweights to have the healthiest lungs we can before going under anesthesia, so I thought I'd pass this along. I'll be doing it even though the surgeon recommending it isn't the surgeon I chose. I'm an asthmatic and every precaution helps!
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