Coronary Heart Disease Support Group
Coronary heart disease is the end result of the accumulation of plaques within the walls of the arteries. While the symptoms and signs of coronary heart disease are noticable in the advanced state of disease, most with coronary heart disease show no evidence of disease for decades as the disease progresses before the first onset of symptoms, often a "sudden" heart attack,...
I have a friend whose husband just had a successful quadruple bypass surgery.
She is desperate to know what she should do and have a reference to look at. She knows as a caretaker she will have a lot of responsibilities.
Can anyone reccomend a good book with easy reading to a regular non reader that she or I can pick up?
Thanks for any help.
She is desperate to know what she should do and have a reference to look at. She knows as a caretaker she will have a lot of responsibilities.
Can anyone reccomend a good book with easy reading to a regular non reader that she or I can pick up?
Thanks for any help.
I have not seen any reference except what my hospital rehab gave me. I recommend asking your husband's doctor to ok rehab. My rehab has 4 nurses that are knowledgeable.
I hope your husband is on all of the drugs to keep the arteries open, and if possible go to rehab for cardio exercises when he is able and his diet should change to almost a vegan diet and very little salt.
You probably feel like a leaf in a fast moving stream, I know I do. But I am learning and adapting as I must. It really changes both of your lifestyles. I do a lot of reading on line about coronary artery disease, google it and you will find out a lot. I hope your husband had the operation before he had heart damage, I was lucky with no damage. I don't know much about this problem but am trying to learn. If you want you can contact me. Best of luck bh
OPEN HEART COMPANION by Maggie Lichtenberg PCC
ALL ABOUT HER BYPASS SURGERY (Paperback0 by Richard Trahair.
THE CARDIAC RECOVERY HANDBOOK: THE COMPLETE GUIDE by Paul Kligfiedl
THE CARDIAC RECOVERY COOKBOOK by M. Laurel Cutlip.
I hope these might be able to help you.