Update on *Sternum Wire's* taken out.
Vancouver Washington I am feeling better as it has been 3 days since the surgery to remove wires. My youngest son and his wife (from Seattle) came Friday for the week end to help take care of me and things. :-) They left for home late this afternoon. I am okay but don't like this pain. Wish there were better drugs for pain control. Vicodin calms pain but does not make it really go away. They opened the same sternum scar to take out the wires. That is not the way they had said they were going to do it. Before they said they would go down *each side* of scar and make small incisions then snip wire on each side and pull it out. Changed their mind just before surgery as a *Different* surgeon (than did heart and leg) was to do this surgery *at the last minute* (don't know why). There is some confusion though. :-( Surgeon told my husband he took out 5 wires (yet he opened entire sternum scar incision all the way down). There are/were*12* wires as I had the x-rays to take to hospital and of course we looked at them. When Don told surgeon he KNEW there were 12 wires the surgeon then CHANGED it to he HAD removed 100% of the wires. We don't know what to believe right now. All I can say is PLEASE PLEASE don't let there be any wires still in there that need removed!!!!!