Thanks for the kind words and prayers!!!  I'm HOME and feel like someone dropped a toploader on my chest.  This will be a very long recovery, 6 weeks minimum and things I will likely need to be mindful off for the rest of my life  (I'm not even 50 yet) .  This all started at the end of May and likely I tore my aorta then but was relatively asymptomatic.  It was torn in three spots and could have completely ruptured at any time in the following month which would have been the end, especially given I was still exercising every day.  Everyone is saying I need to buy a lottery ticket.  I went from a routine ultrasound last Tuesday to confirm I was "getting better" to a ER room CT scan showing  the problems were not better but actually worse  and then surgery an hour later.  Thanks again to the support from this family!!!

That’s great news Day!
Hang in there young fella and take care, you still have a lot of good years ahead of you.

So glad you are doing better!  And yes, the lottery ticket is a perfect analogy.   I don't need to say what I'm sure you were told.   You clearly were built Ford tough!

You aren't 50 yet butt (TS&T), you also ain't 30 any longer.  I recall my old machinist buddy, Ted, after he caused himself some  pain when he was in his early 90's.  He said, "I have to remind myself that I'm not 70 any longer".  It's all relative.
I'm just so happy that they caught it and that you were tough enough to make through the ordeal, I'm not done picking your brain.  Go slow and follow orders.  All our best to you and your family, Day. 

BB1
 

So glad to hear that you are home and doing better. You had us all  worried - you being so young and having issues, and all of us old farts just chugging along. I hope your surgeon did an upgrade to your plumbing so that you can run like a 5.0 instead of a tired old 289! Take it easy and heal up well. You've got a lot of unfinished projects that we've been watching - and we want to see them finished.
Take care, Day and get well.
 

Very sad to hear that.  Positive thoughts.

I hope they find the cause of it and quick. 

I just went through this myself for the second time on May 18th of this year.   Luckily, they figured out on the second go round my Afib was being caused by medication, specifically tamsulosin.  (Flomax).    When it happens you feel all dizzy and weird like you are going to pass out.  Your upper chamber beats out of time and it can vary from slow to 300 beats.   It's a very scary situation.   I had a four day stay at the Waldorf.

New and continued prayers for Day that they find the cause and get him back on the road to recovery.

Still saying prayers

Back in for warranty work Day? Hang in there! Hope they get the fix in so you can be home for good.

Good night brothers pray all goes well Daze. My wife said the Afib is common after open heart surgery praying the figure out the meds quick maybe an anti arithmetic. We will keep the prayers coming Love y’all!

I sent Daze a pm.  I worked in an EP lab as a tech performing Afib ablations and more.  I left the lab 2.5 years ago and now work with pacemakers and ICD devices.

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I am HOME.  Hopefully for good this time.  Seam to be recovering and the AFib apears to be under control.  Thanks to everyone here in the group!!!

Day
Glad to hear you are doing better.
as Sally said welcome to the zipper club.
Had two episodes of Afib post Heart surgery in Sept 2019.
Doc had given me the heads up that this might happen.
went to hospital got the paddle treatment all is ok.
You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Cman