Perfect It Aint

As the title indicates, perfect it aint. I'll rant and rave, maybe even curse once in a while. You are welcome to join me with your comments. At worst I'll just tear out the rest of my hair. At best, I may agree with you. Or maybe I'll just ignore it, because you know, perfect it aint!

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Retired, Financial and Management specialist, lived all over country, but for some reason, decided to retire to West Virginia (that's the new one, not the Richmond one). Please note that all material appearing on this blog is covered under my own personal copyright as creator, except those items appearing in the Comments that do not appear under the screen name of Tanstaafl or are attributed to others by citation. No license is intended or given to copy or redistribute anything appearing in this blog unless written permission is first obtained from the author.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Medical Update 23 March 2011

For those of you who haven't heard, I am still alive and kicking.

During December 2009, I had surgery to repair two aneurysms, one behind my left knee and one on my left femoral artery. After surgery I developed an infection on the incision. Treatment at the hospital was ineffective and I was discharged to return home but I had to undergo intravenous antibiotic/antiviral treatment for bout a month and a half before the infection finally cleared up. Nearing the end of the regimen, I developed a severe rash as a reaction to the increased dosage the doctor asked me to go to. When the rash bloomed, I immediately stopped all treatment and the infection cleared up immediately afterwards. I did, and still do, have to treat the rash on about a monthly basis with a cream. My personal physician says I will need to do this for the rest of my life.

Then in May 2010, I returned to the Clinic and had surgery to repair an aneurysm behind my right knee and another one on my right femoral artery. At the same time the surgeon did the necessary work at the right femoral site to enable him to perform the required surgery on my upper aortic aneurysm whenever it become large enough to repair.

He will not do this work until then because there are some potential complications that he feels outweigh the need for sped in repairing it. These potentials carry the possibility of paralyzation .

After going back for the nine month checkup (you need to understand there was a three month checkup also), the doctor says there was almost no growth in the aneurysm over the past six months, and I was released until February or March of 2012.

So, thanks for your good wishes. I appreciate them very much.

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