Hello all!
I am glad to be able to be back here to report that I made it! The long awaited surgery to reduce my septum went great. On July 22nd, Dr. Dearani of Mayo clinic assisted Dr. Rastagar of the Tufts/NEMC surgical staff in performing their first 2 Myectomies done back to back. Another gentleman went in the morning, I went after lunch and we both came out of it very successfully. My gradient went from 100mmHg to 0mmHg when provoked chemically. I will do a follow up in 4 weeks but my septum is now an average of 10-11 mm versus about 26mm prior to surgery. I am home recovering now and aside from the lingering persistant cough that I had from the CHF prior to surgery, my scar is minimal, and pain level is good (except for the cough part). I am very happy with the results so far and am glad that Boston will now have a new expert to perform this surgery in addition to Mayo and Cleveland. Thank you to everyone who supported and gave me information enableing me to make this decision. Thanks to Lisa for all your help and I wish I was a little less loopy on the drugs when you came by so I could have talked to you more. I continue to progress and look forward to the next few weeks when I will get my wind back again.
Best regards,
Doug
Boston Myectomy July 2003
I am glad to be able to be back here to report that I made it! The long awaited surgery to reduce my septum went great. On July 22nd, Dr. Dearani of Mayo clinic assisted Dr. Rastagar of the Tufts/NEMC surgical staff in performing their first 2 Myectomies done back to back. Another gentleman went in the morning, I went after lunch and we both came out of it very successfully. My gradient went from 100mmHg to 0mmHg when provoked chemically. I will do a follow up in 4 weeks but my septum is now an average of 10-11 mm versus about 26mm prior to surgery. I am home recovering now and aside from the lingering persistant cough that I had from the CHF prior to surgery, my scar is minimal, and pain level is good (except for the cough part). I am very happy with the results so far and am glad that Boston will now have a new expert to perform this surgery in addition to Mayo and Cleveland. Thank you to everyone who supported and gave me information enableing me to make this decision. Thanks to Lisa for all your help and I wish I was a little less loopy on the drugs when you came by so I could have talked to you more. I continue to progress and look forward to the next few weeks when I will get my wind back again.
Best regards,
Doug
Boston Myectomy July 2003
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