Sitting in the hospital waiting for surgery tomorrow morning...

[burt]

Originally Posted by Mosbonian

So, on Monday I head back for my first follow up with my Cardiologist. What I am told is at that appointment he will then refer me to the Cardiac Rehab group to start my rehab with them.

Has anyone ever done Cardiac Rehab and have some insight into what rehab programs they will probably utilize? I am sure it has a lot to do with getting my heart back in shape and will probably entail some exercises to get my strength back. In addition I am sure they will probably have a diet regimen I will need to follow as strictly as possible ( am guessing no more of the sweets that I rarely ate anyway).

But would appreciate any insight anyone can give me on what I can expect.

Cardiac Rehab is no biggie. Just very light supervised excercise. They will gradually increase it, but it NEVER got to traditional excercise. I think I was 61 so I was one of the young guys.

I don't know what they did for you, but they told me, the next one will be full bypass and that I am not a candidate for stints. That was when I weighed 280. Got all the way to 286. 222 today. I still have things I want to do. You do too, Mosbonian.

I'm currently in rehab for balance issues. It's WAY worse than Cardio Rehab. Getting oldd ain't for sissies!