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Lance James hugs Amanda Irons, a nurse in the cardiac intensive care unit at UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies. Irons cared for James when he was in the hospital for an aortic dissection two years ago. James returned to the unit recently to say thank you to his caregivers. Photo by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lance James held the hand of his youngest daughter, Ava, when he walked through the doors of UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies where he was hit by a surge of emotions.<\/p>\n

With help from his wife, Christy, Lance loaded boxes onto a cart and then Dan Cooper, a nurse manager for the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, escorted the family to the elevator which took them to the CICU on the second floor.<\/p>\n

As Cooper hit the button to open the doors of the intensive care unit, Lance\u2019s lips pursed and his eyes watered \u2014 his mind flashed back to two years ago when he\u2019d been in Colorado for a family reunion and landed on the unit for a very different reason.<\/p>\n

In the employee break room, Christy laid out a table cloth and unloaded the boxes \u2014 two \u2018thank you\u2019 cakes, crackers, cheeses, cookies, fruit, and nutrition bars. Ava set up balloons and flowers. Everything bore Lance’s favorite sports team colors: red and black for Georgia, their home. Lance smiled as the faces of those who had helped him through the toughest part of his life arrived in the break room.
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Christy James sets up a table of goodies in the CICU break room for staff, a thank you gift for the unit where her husband, Lance, recovered from an aortic dissection two years earlier. Photo by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Summer of 2019: a life-changing experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Two years ago, Lance and his family were in Estes Park for the reunion. Ava woke ecstatic for that morning\u2019s horseback ride, but her father wasn\u2019t feeling well \u2014 he\u2019d been up since dawn coughing and vomiting. Lance told Christy to take their two youngest kids, Ava, now 9, and Bella, now 18, while he\u2019d stay back and rest.<\/p>\n

Before Christy could get to the horse ranch, Lance called. Something was wrong; he needed to go to the emergency room, he told her.<\/p>\n

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Lance James, right, talks to his former CICU caregivers, from left, nurses Kelly Morrow and Kellie White and Nurse Practitioner Jill Hinkle, while visiting the unit recently to say thanks for saving his life two years prior. Photo by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nurses and doctors at the emergency department in Estes Park evaluated Lance. They were concerned and wanted to rule out a pulmonary embolism, which occurs when a blood clot gets lodged in an artery in the lungs, blocking blood flow.<\/p>\n

What they found was just as serious. Lance was experiencing an aortic dissection, a serious condition where the inner layer of the aorta \u2014 the large blood vessel branching off the heart \u2014 tears. This causes blood to surge through the tear and the inner and middle layers of the aorta to separate. He was immediately transported to UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies where he needed emergency open-heart surgery.<\/p>\n

Lance spent three weeks in the CICU, eight of those days he was on a ventilator and sedated.<\/p>\n

Returning to say thanks<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Two years later, he returned to say thanks to his caregivers, a trip he wanted to make last year but couldn\u2019t because of the pandemic. So, when his relatives decided to have another reunion in Estes Park, Lance knew he had to make a few stops in Loveland.<\/p>\n

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MCR nurse Claire Dunlap talks to Ava about the picture Ava made for her father’s caregivers. Photo by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Tuesday, June 15, CICU nurses, physicians, and respiratory therapists wandered in and out of the break room for a hug and to say “hi” once again to Lance. There were tears, laughs and stories about the Georgia blanket he always had with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to cry talking about this, but every time I asked to go for a walk, you never said no,\u201d he told his former nurses. \u201cIt might have taken some time \u2014 I was 300 pounds and it took three of you \u2014 but no one ever said no. You only said, \u2018Keep going, Lance.\u2019 That\u2019s why I wanted to come back and say thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lance shared that since his hospitalization, he has quit smoking cigarettes and lost about 60 pounds.<\/p>\n

When he was in the hospital, he said, \u201cI was so focused on breathing on my own, I didn\u2019t realize how much more work I would have after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ava gave the nurses a drawing she\u2019d done of a rainbow and when nurses thanked her for the goodies, Ava said: \u201cI\u2019m just glad I have my dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

While in Colorado, Lance also visited the office of his surgeon, Dr. Mark Guadagnoili. Guadagnoili had called Lance the year before when he\u2019d learned Lance had planned to visit but couldn\u2019t. Lance still wanted to thank him in person.<\/p>\n

Lance laughed as he told Guadagnoili that his work is admired by his doctors in Georgia.<\/p>\n

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Lance James, right, poses for a picture with his former respiratory therapist Kevin Londrigan, while visiting the MCR CICU recently to say thanks to his caregivers for saving his life two years prior. Photo by Kati Blocker, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI feel like a model because they\u2019re always asking me to unbutton my shirt (to see the incision Guadagnoili had made) and they are like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s nice. That\u2019s really nice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Lance finished his Colorado trip hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, experiencing the trails he never got to go on during his last visit. He’s adamant that Colorado was where he was supposed to be that summer of 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was something that changed my life, and I\u2019m so glad I was in Colorado when it happened. I\u2019m glad I was here,\u201d he said, standing in the CICU. \u201cThis is where I was supposed to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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