Hershall & Gardening
You are so lucky to be in a climate where you can garden so early. Here it isn't even possible to do anything outside as far as planting or growing goes before the middle of May. I know from your postings you seem to be doing great since your surgery. In relation to gardening do you expect to be able to do everything that you used to do before the surgery. Things like digging holes for shrubs, edging the flower beds and cutting the grass. Just wondering because I want to do all that stuff because I love doing it but I still get a lot of pain in the area of the surgery when I try to sweep a floor or such. Gail
Me too. I swear one night evil incarnate climbed into the bed with me, causing me to wake and set my heart to jumping wildly. It was as real as could be.
No, I was off the dope. I remember no dreams at all while on the pump. Could have been a 'bounce-back' effect I suppose.
I haven't followed this group much lately but just found this thread. I am female soon to be 59 and 7 yrs ago had 2 heart attacks back to back and emergency 5 bypasses. For some reason they couldn't wean me off a respirator for 10 days so I was very drugged up. I could write a novel about the weird "dreams" I had. I still remember those better than the reality (probably a good thing). Now that I am 7 yrs out I can find the humor in them. And I have been very lucky to not have any complications since then. One I do remember is that some of the doctors were running an illegal drug ring by "cigarette boats" up and down a canal underneath the hospital (and we live in the desert!) . They realized that my daughter and I saw them and my daughter wanted us to get away. I said I couldn't go because of the thing that was attached to my finger (for oxygen level?). She said "Oh Mom that is just a fake thing to make you think you have to stay here. We can get another one at Radio Shack!!!! Sweet dreams to all! Holly
In a message dated 3/20/2004 1:25:13 PM US Eastern Standard Time, ncampbell@... writes: Both those drugs have been known to give people weird dreams. Morphine. Nina ANTI NAUSEA DRUGS CAN ALSO CAUSE NIGHTMARES AND OR HALLUCINATIONS ROSE
Hershell...As a kid I lived in a place called Hardin Valley,Tenn. It is off route 11, near Oak Ridge,my Dad worked at helping build Oak Ridge back in the early forties. We moved to Penna.after his death in 1946. I went back to Hardin Valley in 1985,not much change in all those years,they sure don't take to strangers.....Indomethacin 75mg seems to be working for my chest pain,heart doc renewed my script for another two weeks,time will tell....Mac
Does anyone have weard dreams after your bypass? I dream every nite since my surgery and some of them are realy off the wall. There are not nitemares, just realy weard and off the wall. They wake me up and I think, what the H@#$ was that all about. Some times I am afraid to go to bed because I do not want to go back there in my dream. Also I seem to know what is going to happen before it happens. My neighbor lady was over one day last year having coffee. As she sat there a little voice in my head said that she was going to die tonight. After she went home I told my wife what I herd and she thought I was going nuts. Sure enough we were awoken by flashing red lights at 3 AM. It was my neighbor lady. I ran over there and saw them doing CPR on her. It was to late. She had been down to long. This kind of s#%t has been happening to me ever since my surgery. Has anyone had this kind of s#% t happen to you? Steve Y.
I dream very vividly every night....they seem to be such long, detailed dreams compared to my dreams "pre-bypass". They are in color. They are composed of little bits and pieces of people, places, things, movies, conversations, events, perhaps iinvolve a number or amount that had significance for some reason or another, etc., .....just anything in the last day or so that has surfaced. These bits and pieces all jumble/mesh together to interlock into the strangest combination of a detailed story. I can wake up in the middle of a dream, go to the bathroom, go back to bed and continue the dream like I had paused a VCR. I remember it all the next morning. I haven't had the "predictions" of death that you have. I have dreamed things that seem to happen just as in my dream on occasion. I had just mentioned my strange dreams to my husband this morning, and started to bring it up here. Glad you did! Connie "Steven A. Young" <say309@... Does anyone have weard dreams after your bypass? I dream every nite since my surgery and some of them are realy off the wall. There are not nitemares, just realy weard and off the wall. They wake me up and I think, what the H@#$ was that all about. Some times I am afraid to go to bed because I do not want to go back there in my dream. Also I seem to know what is going to happen before it happens. My neighbor lady was over one day last year having coffee. As she sat there a little voice in my head said that she was going to die tonight. After she went home I told my wife what I herd and she thought I was going nuts. Sure enough we were awoken by flashing red lights at 3 AM. It was my neighbor lady. I ran over there and saw them doing CPR on her. It was to late. She had been down to long. This kind of s#%t has been happening to me ever since my surgery. Has anyone had this kind of s#% t happen to you? Steve Y. Connie Turner
G, Enjoyed reading your post. Thanks for sharing. My stepson was in a car accident and kept sedated for most of a month and he is on lots of medication today and talks about his bad dreams (his description) and not being able to think right. You can't keep someone in a coma like state that long without doing so damage but then you can't let them wake up and hurt themselves. Our son had a colostomy and lots of tubes everywhere. When he woke up, he would start pulling everything out and get very agitated so they would just sedate him. He had a horrible infection that caused most of his problems. There were three others in the part of the ICU at Baylor Hospital in Dallas with similar infections so we figure he picked it up there. He took massive doses of antibiotics and 2 surgeries so I bet his experiences were similar to yours. I didn't have nearly so many problems but I do not and have not felt better since the bypass surgery and just think I am the type of person who should not have it and I will never have major surgery again unless I am unconscious and don't it. If I can decide for myself, it will not happen. Ann
I don't think I ever sleep long enough any more to have dreams. I take cat naps. Since August I have not slept for more than four hours at any one time. Usually its about forty-five minutes. There has been periods of time when I have been awake for more than 48 hours straight. I can not sleep. i have even taken sleeping pills. They only put me down for a few hours. My wife used to try and wake me up so I would go get in the bed. Now she just lets me sleep where ever I fall asleep. If she wakes me I'm up. A wonderful nights sleep is what i dream of. Hershell
Can you talk to your doctor about that, Hershell? I was that way for a couple of months after bypass, but by the 3rd month...I was sleeping like a baby. Any time I get a chance, I doze. Connie Hershell Freels <hefreels@... I don't think I ever sleep long enough any more to have dreams. I take cat naps. Since August I have not slept for more than four hours at any one time. Usually its about forty-five minutes. There has been periods of time when I have been awake for more than 48 hours straight. I can not sleep. i have even taken sleeping pills. They only put me down for a few hours. My wife used to try and wake me up so I would go get in the bed. Now she just lets me sleep where ever I fall asleep. If she wakes me I'm up. A wonderful nights sleep is what i dream of. Hershell Connie Turner
I'm with you Bogie. Sleeping pills did not help me. They would make me go to sleep. But I still would only sleep a couple hours at a time. My wife said they made me grumpy and irritable. I just didn't see it. LOL. :-D Hershell