I killed over in the recovery room waiting for my ride home.
I coded 3X'S, I was down almost 4 minutes, also I was cathed and stinted in 30 minutes.
BUT.
They poured the Heparin to me and caused me to bleed out.
I have Non-hodgkin's lymphoma and the doctor and nurses never looked at my chart.
Nor did they see where the surgeon gave me platelets before surgery because my normal is around 75k, the one pack brought me up to 144k.
This was about the time my wife walked in an noticed my catheter bag had fire engine red blood in it.
My platelet count was at 22k,they gave me 6 units of blood and 5 packs of platelets.
She is a retired BSRN and a very good problem solver,if it wasn't for her I'd be dead.
All this happened on April 23rd.
I was on By-pass for four days, then I was in cardiac ICU for a week, ICU for 10 days and the balance of my 30 day stay on a step down unit.
I start rehab on Wednesday,but I will tell you this,nothing has put me down like this did.
Something that I am greatful for is where this happened as I usually work out in the middle of nowhere.
I had almost 100% blockage and never paid attention to the signs.
There was no bright lights,no harps,nope it was more like someone turned the switch off.