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Copyright 2009
Steven Donnini
Austin, Texas
Orlando, Florida
DonniniStudio@aol.com
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He had the tattered look of the resident who had not had a
team has concluded that you are not a good candidate for
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quickly.”
ago. So, I had seen the process. Three of the bye passes
the 80%-90% range. The real big problem was where the 4
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about the 4th bye pass. I didn’t want to know any details
their way through the sternum bone with an electric saw and
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to live even with the pain, 4 broken ribs, chest tubes and
get the three chest tubes and the catheter removed. This
was a tall order, but when I heard the following words over
suppository from the young nurse who was caring for me.
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I could only hope amnesia was part of the deal with this
pulling on them all out with one motion. One tube was
order. But it was the only way out of the ICU. This was
gonna hurt and there was no way around it. I was just
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hoping whoever did the dirt deed was good at it. But what
if they got the tubes all tangled up and could get one out?
between the two women and the male nurse until he couldn’t
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departure, so they would know what was going on. They were
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in my BM today.”
what did you eat the night before?” “A chocolate cake with
Now in the ICU , all the things he said were about to come
I’ve come this far, don’t let this kill me from fright
before I can see my wife and girls.” The male nurse walked
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black.
big crying man before the heart surgery. But it’s been
a store I will get the feeling and cry. I try to hide the
tears but that only makes thing worst. I know there are
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places.
open with “How you feeling?” They know what I’m talking
village gets sick. They don’t want to here about it. Just
way he said it, the tone was sarcastic and rude. But he
into what happens to people who have had the same surgery.
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blood to keep the brain alive and some of these bubbles get
thought. You know what the word is but you can’t get it
out. It’s just gone on down the memory highway and makes
myself, why not talk to Doctor about this stuff? The thing
about the fact that I didn’t have the surgery on his watch
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There’s a lot more stuff they don’t tell you. Like how
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that his Dad had the same thing happen. He was very
understanding.
When people discover you have heart surgery they won’t hire
through the same thing I did and never complained about it.
They just go forward with their life and never talk about
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used are very powerful, yet many surgeons ask that the OR
Now, I look back and realize that everyone will handle the
Albert Einstein
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