Dad may need more heart surgery
8 months ago
Not sure whether he’ll want it or not but apparently the replacement valve that he was given in November 2007 may need replacing.
Well we think it does but given he now has mild heart failure and had a heart attack earlier this year we don’t know whether the surgeon will think it a good idea to put him under the knife again.
If it isn’t one thing then it’s another for him. He came home from his heart attack too soon and ended up being taken back a couple of weeks later for a further period of treatment as he wasn’t well at all – leg swelled up, blue lips, trouble breathing etc.
Hospitals should consider the whole patient not just the single symptom that caused them to be admitted in the first place.
