Nancy was getting doses of Robitussin© today with emphasis on the expectorant potential. It seems to be working. She is still in the ICU.
This is post-op day 8. A regular (if there is such a thing) open heart surgery patient would likely be out of the hospital on day 5 or 6. Nancy’s back road’s way of getting to this stage included heart attack and cardiopulmonary collapse from heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin-induced_thrombocytopenia
I now have a single-spaced 3 page transcription of the operation as dictated by the surgeon. I’ll work to summarize it and post that later this week. Given my lack of medical knowledge, such a summary would not be possible without the resources on the internet (or WEB or Cloud, or whatever it is called this week) and a relatively fast connection (DSL via phone company for us out in the county), nor would this manner of providing updates on Nancy’s progress.