So this blog posting thing hasn’t happened as frequently as I’d imagined it might! If it makes you feel any better, I do think about posting much more often than I actually have written. I must be busier than I thought I was.
Anyway, I was back at the cardiologist last week to check on some lingering inflammation at the bottom of my heart where it was apparently rubbing against the pericardium (lining of the heart). This wasn’t entirely uncommon, but the doc had me take high quantities of ibuprofen for ten days to hopefully neutralize it. It seemed to work, as they said I sounded much better this time and didn’t detect any of the telltale “sandpaper” sound, I guess. I don’t have to go back to see the cardiologist for another 3-4 months. I am scheduled to check in with the surgeon at the end of January, so I appear to be back on the “routine” post-operative checkup schedule.
I’m not in any pain from the surgery, really. The only medication I’m still taking is atenolol (which lowers blood pressure), and the surgeon may discontinue that after my January appointment. I’ve been taking that for years, so it’s no big deal. My daily life is back to normal, and sleeping and eating have been much improved over the past month. I guess just about when everything is returning to normal, I’ll disrupt it again with our first baby, coming in January!
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