This will be at the Nashville Vanderbilt campus, I think I will be in good hands, Several years ago they also did my prostatectomy and they did an outstanding job eradicating that cancer.
My best friend from law school (female) just had a quadruple bypass. She is skinny but somehow had built up plaque in her vessels. Anyway, they had her up walking the day after, it was extremely painful and she only walked down the hall of the hospital. She stayed in the hospital from Thursday to Tuesday then went home. Age 69. Her husband rented her a hospital bed so she can raise and lower the head of it and the height of it—their regular bed was pretty high off the floor. She is not able to sleep very well, only 3-4 hours a day. Home health is coming in. You will need help full time if you live alone, get a relative to agree to come stay with you for at least a couple of weeks, you are not going to be able to do much of anything for yourself. She was off pain meds and on over the counter pain relief quickly.
I iamgine that VA gets some good doctors from the Vanderbuilt University Medical Center. That’s the way it goes at the Los Angeles VA next door to the UCLA Medical Center, and at the New York-Manhattan VA just a couple blocks from the NYU Langhorn Medical Center, and the San Bernardino-Redlands VA right near Loma Linda University Medical Center.
I think you’ll be in good hands.
We’ll keep the prayers open for you.