Hello my friends,

I’ve come through the surgery relatively well.  Just some minor, but not unexpected snags. My blood pressure took its sweet time climbing back to normal.  My mobility has been great, but I’m still needing to reduce the amount of liquid in my body and get rid of these temporary cankles I’m sporting.  Then once cleared to leave the ICU, there were no open beds for a day.

The really great news is that 2 chest tubes, temporary pacemaker wires, and a neck IV port are all out, and all I have left is one IV port and some electrodes.

The first two days after surgery were brutal, no sleep, lots of pain and nausea, it was truly miserable.

The picture above is my first shower post procedure, I was very happy.  I’m sleeping better but super tired still.  I’m looking forward to getting home to familiar surroundings, likely on Tuesday.

I’ve been overwhelmed by how supportive people have been, visitors, etc….that’s been wonderful.

Have a happy day my friends – Rev Kane