A Plan is Just That

September 2020

Being sick is rough, having a medical procedure to fix it is optimistic and even hopeful. For me, failure to achieve results is tough to accept. My goal, as always, is to do the best I can without obsession over anything & trust that God always knows my needs and I how much I need Him.

Renee and I went into this idea with hope and faith including prayer, as always. We believed the idea of placing 1 or maybe 2 stents would help to keep arteries stay open for blood flow. Like a tiny section of a barrel to hold the vessel open. Great idea and huge hope for the congestive heart failure. Along with this procedure the surgeon also planned to put in a smallish pump called a impeller that would constantly pump my blood throughout my body. It was to be put in the left side femoral artery whereas the stint & visual access will be the right side femoral artery.

Yea, the surgeon made all this sound so straight forward. The biggest emphasis is on the impeller and how life saving it could be. If my heart stops during surgery the pump would keep me alive, comforting ? Hmmm, Ok, I’ll go with that….