Had a good visit with the surgeon today
By Laurel (L_B)
@Happy2BeMe (99380)
Canada
September 6, 2017 5:03pm CST
He was very pleased to see me and to see that I am doing so well. Everything is healing well. Just the way it is suppose to. He was happy about all the walking I have been doing and he was impressed with my blood pressure numbers. My blood pressure is lower then it has been in years. He also told me that I no longer needed one of my medications and he lowered the dosage of another. So that made me feel good. He said it is nice to see such a success story and that the two hours he operated on me was well spent time to see how healthy I am today. He shook my hand on the way out and I thanked him for giving me my second chance at life. He smiled and told me I just made his day.
While there we went to visit a friend who is back in the hospital. She spent 14 months in the hospital last year and got out in early spring only to have to go back four times since then. She isn't doing well. She needs to have a operation on her bowels but she is not strong enough to go through surgery. She is now fighting a blood infection. She isn't doing very well. It breaks my heart to see her like that. We had a nice visit though.
After that we went mall walking then came home. It has been pouring rain on and off all day plus thunderstorms every few hours. It is suppose to be like this until last tomorrow evening.
Hope you all had a great Wednesday.
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33 responses
@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
6 Sep 17
I'm so happy to hear how good everything is going for you!!
I'm sorry to hear about your friend though, I will be praying for her. =(
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
7 Sep 17
@Happy2BeMe Your welcome, I am sure it does!
No problem. 
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
Thanks Jennifer it feels good to put all this behind me and move forward being healthy. Thanks for the prayers. She needs them.
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@Marilynda1225 (82797)
• United States
7 Sep 17
It must be an awesome feeling knowing that you have gotten yourself healthy. Good news from the surgeon. Sorry to hear about your friend
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
Thank you...yes it sure is a great feeling to be able to move forward and be healthy.
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@velvet53 (22534)
• Palisade, Colorado
7 Sep 17
I am very happy to hear that you are doing so well. I am seeing how walking really does help. I bet you are happy with not having to take that one medicine.
I am very sorry to hear about your friend. Hopefully she will get her strength back and be able to have the surgery that she needs.
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@velvet53 (22534)
• Palisade, Colorado
8 Sep 17
@Happy2BeMe I will be praying for her.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
Thank it feels good.
I hope so too. It is sad to see her that way.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
9 Sep 17
@velvet53 thanks she really needs the prayers
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
7 Sep 17
I'm so glad to hear your progress report and that it is so good! Congratulations. Also congrats to being off one med and another lowered, great news! I'm sorry for your friend. That's so sad. I hope her body can fight this infection and she can have the necessary surgery.
My day yesterday was awesome with the great news about how much weight I lost this past month. Today has rain in the forecast and I'm hoping to do laundry at my daughter's. Other than that, I will be here looking at gray threatening clouds.
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@just4him (317089)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
7 Sep 17
@Happy2BeMe Thank you. I'm still smiling over the results. Now I'm working on the second month.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
9 Sep 17
@just4him good for you. Can't wait to hear how did at the end of the month.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
Thank you and congrats on the weight loss. That is so wonderful.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
7 Sep 17
I'm glad your doctors visit was a success and you're healing properly. I hope your friend gets better soon.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
9 Sep 17
@Happy2BeMe That's every good indeed for your health. 
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
I have been walking every day, losing weight and have lowered my salt intake.
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@LeaPea2417 (37355)
• Toccoa, Georgia
7 Sep 17
That is great about you, but that saddens me about your friend.
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@Juliaacv (51214)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
@Happy2BeMe I'm so very proud of you. From where I sat here, last June, reading about the heart attack and waiting and waiting for the surgery, it must have been so awfully hard. And I worried about you giving up, but you did not, you used this as a second chance. As a friend I know that I am grateful for your second chance and for your determination and hard work, and I'm sure that your family is thankful too.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
@Juliaacv thanks that really means a lot to me. It is because of family and friends like you that I knew giving up was never a option.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
7 Sep 17
Sounds like it all fell into place the way it should - good for you!!!!
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
6 Sep 17
I'm glad to hear your followup with the surgeon went well! That is very good news.
I am sorry about your friend. I hope her health improves so she can have her operation.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
Thank you. I was talking to my friends husband after I got home and he said it would be a year before they could so surgery. I hope she doesn't have to spend another year in the hospital.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
7 Sep 17
@Happy2BeMe Oh that's just awful. I can't imagine being stuck in the hospital that long. Hopefully she will be able to go home before then.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
7 Sep 17
That is such great news @Happy2BeMe . I'm sorry to hear about your friend though.
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@fishtiger58 (29820)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Sep 17
Outstanding news. glad to hear you are doing so well.
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@GardenGerty (160677)
• United States
7 Sep 17
You had a great surgeon, and you have a big commitment to do what you need to to be better. Congratulations.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
7 Sep 17
Thank you. Yes I was told that he was the best they have.
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@prashu228 (37524)
• India
7 Sep 17
Glad everything is fine. So sorry for your friend. I feel very sad whenever i read such things ,.. really sorry. Hope she recovers.
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
7 Sep 17
We could use that rain to quench the fires here in the west. I am really glad to hear how well you are doing!
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@Courtlynn (67085)
• United States
7 Sep 17
That's how the weather has been here today. Glad he was pleased, and glad you both took something from your visit there today.
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@Amazingmay (37)
• Colorado Springs, Colorado
7 Sep 17
Wishing you nothing but good health.
Praying for your friend too. Sometimes we take good health for granted and such stories remind us that we should always be thankful for another day that we live.
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