Dave - I am sure things will work out well. With all the advances recently in heart surgery you should be all "re-plumbed" with the bypass and probably feel better than you have in years. I had a similar experience while working in Michigan almost 20 years ago except I didn't listen to my body for 16 hours and finally drove myself to the hospital because I thought I had the flu (never had chest pains though?) Ended up with a stent there to open the 100% blockage on my right coronary artery (doctor said I should have died but somehow didn't) and then 2 more stents about a month later to fix the other two 70% blocked left ones. About 2 months later I did listen to my body and it told me something was wrong so went in to have it checked. Ended up with 5 way bypass
and things have been great since
. No real limits on what I can do as far as the doctor is concerned and its been almost 20 years since the bypass. They have come a long way since then with a lot of improvements (especially using the mammary vessels instead of the leg veins) so your outlook is rosy once the shock of the bypass surgery wears off. Keep active! Do your therapy! Keep sailing! Have fun and remember, its a "big deal" for you but like my surgeon told me "we do this every day and we're good at it so have faith, trust us and we'll see you when you wake up!" Keep us posted and if you want to talk to someone who's been through it and is "no worse for the wear" send me a private message and I'll give you my phone number and we can talk. I've talked to a lot of my friends who have undergone bypass surgery in the last 20 years and they seem to appreicate the perspective.
