Update on my angioplasty

Ok here is the straight arrow on my carotid artery surgery. It lasted about ninety minutes. That's a long time to lay flat on your back on an operating table. If you have never been through it you can't imagine what that does to an already bad back. For some reason I wanted and expected a whole bunch of feel good medication but alas that was not to be, I was told after the surgery that when they do this type of operation they don't give any type of sedation, you have to be totally alert so they can tell if you are having a stroke during the procedure. Now I know why I was so stressed and tense during this same procedure done just over a year ago. I thought they were just being cheap with their good drugs, or I was just a big baby. Now a little about what they did in that hour and a half. When they shot the dye through my veins they found that one of the three stents that they put in last year was almost totally blocked. The solution, remove the blocked stent and replace it with a new one sounds simple enough, right! Not so, they spent the next hour sliding many different wires with different type hooks on the end of them through my vain up to the artery to try and hook the stent and drag it out of the artery and out of my body via my vain. This went on for the better part of an hour without success, then as what seemed like a last resort I heard them call for the headhunter. My first thought after hearing "the headhunter" was if someone comes through that door wearing a scary mask and swinging a dead chicken around, rattling a bunch of old bones and starts to dance around the operating table I would be out of there real quick. But that was not the case, what they were referring to was a wire with a special tip on it they call the headhunter. Imagine, if you dare, you are laying on the operating table and you hear your doctor say get the headhunter. What do you think your reaction would be? When the headhunter failed to get the job done I was told that I would be moving on to the bonus round. Question, artery bypass, answer must be in the form of a question. Answer, what is the next procedure they will do on the Layz 1? So it's back to the hospital again next month. There was some good to come out of this trip to the operating room, a doctor that was in training got himself a lot of experience while he work on trying to get that blocked stent out of my vain. Did I mention that a young doctor who was in training for vascular surgery performed most of the operation, while my doctor stood behind him to be sure no mistake was made. I wonder if I should get paid for that? Well I guess that is about it for my surgery but stay tuned for the next episode of, As the Layz 1 ages. Should be in about three weeks. .

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