Needs surgery to remove a melanoma and to explore lymph nodes for more cancer. He has congestive heart failure and I am wanting to know if there are other options that might be less stressful than putting him under a General.
Doctors will be preforming test to check his heart and the like ... but i am wanting some idea of what we are looking at.
He needs the surgery, but they don't think his heart can handle it.
I also have CHF at age 72. Only last week did I have invasive surgery on a Hernia. The Dr who did the job, told me I was too fragile to undertake a general, but would give me somthing to take away the stress of the local and gave me a drip. I was asleap before
I was on the table and woke up in recovery. Go for it and good luck.
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