Heart Bypass Surgery

Hello My English is not the best so bare with me.. OK..LOL l have had a tripple aortic bypass in 98 and open single heart bypass 2000..and also have a bunch of stents.. l am also a Diabetic on Insulin ... l started out with just meds.. but then some stents came into the pic..and finaly l had sugery twice.. but l tell you been an hard road to recovery.. and now l fighting to keep my Hemoglobin up.. it has been down 4..then went up to 6..then stayed there forever.. My GI..doc's have been down and found out l am seeping as they call it..bleeding slowly from inside my stomac..well the doc. have been down 5 times int he past 6 months..loads of fun..not..with a Lazor to stop the bleeding..and that my friends is pure toture after you wake up..l hurts and l womit for a week at the time they do this.. l am now on Procrit 8000 units injections a week..to build my red bloddcells back up.. becouse my Aorta behind my Kidney is blocked over 90%...so l need another stent..but they can not do this before my Hemoglobin is up to 12... becouse of bloodthinners they give during surgery..and 4 weeks after.. right now l realy feel like a pincusion..l know l am used to the Insulin every day and now this for the wext 3 months on top of that.. right now l feel like l do notting but take pills..give myself shots.. and the ting is l have allways watched what l eat...l guess that did not help.. l am down to 110 pounds.. 50 kilo's..and l am 5.3.. 152 cm.. l am 59 yr old..spunky Norwegian..but l live in Kansas City..Missouri.. married 29 yrs.. 2 grown kids.. and their better halfs.. between my family here in the US and Norway l have an wonderfull support from.. l love to travel and meet new friends.. By the way planning on going home to Norway again in March of 2004.. was home in 2002 .. Looking foward to bet know you all.. Have a great Sunday .. Nutten