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My husband is 10 weeks post 5 way heart bypass and valve repair surgery. He naturally has the high blood pressure and diabetes to go along with that. In the last week he has been complaining about a pain in his left thigh, the only descriptor he will give is muscle pain. The blood vessels for the surgery were taken entirely from his right leg.

This afternoon he is complaining about overall foot pain in both feet. The pain has worsened over the last 24 hours or so. He says that walking and wearing his tennis shoes makes the pain better. I have a heel spur, and post surgery he had foot pain they said was plantar facia-itis(sp) so maybe it's just a flare up of that?

His cardiologist is unavailable outside of office hours. His family doctor's office said (over the phone) if the pain is that severe it might be a blood clot and he should go to the ER.

We don't have insurance. My husband thinks his doctors might release him to go back to work this week, and we're quite strapped financially, so he doesn't want to go to the ER (plus there's the whole "pincushion" thing). In addition, my husband argues that if it was a blood clot it wouldn't be pain in both feet. He says he'll just "deal with" the pain.

How can I convince him to go to the ER? Or, is this something that's normal for heart patients? How concerned should I be?

"Step back all you non believers or the rain will never come."

It's a country song about a man who comes to a small town that suffers drought and causes it to rain.