Heart Bypass Surgery

Sadly the way we got the answer is that on Weds my hubby Bill had a heart attack and was life flighted to the hospital where they do the heart caths. They ended up needing to do an angioplasty and insert a stent in a previous graft. He's home and doing well now though dreading the next part. In a previous post I had mentioned that Bill was concerned about the clicking in his chest that the doctors dismissed and told him repeatedly it was normal a part of the healing process... Not to say that the same will be true for everyone, but I as his nosy wife had a copy of his recent chest x-ray in my possesion and got it out held it up to the light and to my untrained eye it looked as though there was a wire just hanging out of place. I took it to the nurse who took it to the cadiologist who happend to still be on the floor, who then took it to the cardiac surgeon who came in followed by his entourage and after about 15 mins of does this hurt and feel here cough take a deep breaths. And then after another 20 mins of thier absence they came back with their verdict. Bill not only had one wire at the bottom of the sternum broken loose but also a wire undone further up the sternum. And that the wires had pulled through the sternum in such a manner that now he must have the whole mess removed and the plastic surgoen come in and graft a flap to replace the whole thing. NEVER DULL... The moral of this, ask ask and ask again till you get an answer hugs jennifer and bill