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Looks like his last post was 4 weeks ago. Anyone know about him? I thought surely he would be weighing in on the new thread by Stretch on heart surgery history.
 
I sent him a PM a few weeks ago when Stretch posted, wondering where he'd gone off to. But I have not had a response. I don't think his health has been top notch lately, so I'm a bit concerned. We may need to have Ross send out the hounds.
 
I have thought of him daily, since he was discovered missing from his daily posts on the site.
If anyone has any, I MEAN ANY, personal info on him; let me know. I live about 45 minutes south of the town he calls home and would be more than happy to head up and see what is going on. He and I had many PM's but I never got or asked for any contact info.
We need to check on him !!

ben
 
Bob is fine.

Bob is fine.

Have been in touch with Bob by email and just wanted to post that he is busy with family matters and a few health issues, but he is fine. I have extended all our best wishes and told him how much we miss him.
 
Thanks, Phyllis!

Thanks, Phyllis!

I've been worried about him, too since he first went MIA. It is a relief to hear that he is okay. Hugs. J.
 
So glad he is ok.. and that this little vr family cares:) so deeply for its own!:D
gives me warm fuzzies!
 
RCB has left us. He's upset about a few things here and doesn't feel that anything he contributes is anything more then ignored or ridiculed. The man has been around, seen alot, down extensive research into all types of valves and it's a plain shame that he feels this way. He gives and takes as he's researched and is just tired of what he feels to be a double standard here. I know what he means. I feel that way sometimes myself, but he has not the patiences for it anymore.

I'd rather him explain it himself, but I'm sorry, I don't think it's going to happen.
 
He popped in for a few quick posts a week or so ago. Other than that, Ross' post pretty much sums up why he hasn't been around.

His membership is a treasure to VR - since he is the oldest living valve replacement survivor. He's pioneered the way for all of us.
 
Karlynn said:
He popped in for a few quick posts a week or so ago. Other than that, Ross' post pretty much sums up why he hasn't been around.

His membership is a treasure to VR - since he is the oldest living valve replacement survivor. He's pioneered the way for all of us.
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Precisely. Show me someone here with more experience then he has. It won't happen. I really hope at some point he reconsiders, but the way things have been over the last year or so, he just feels it's useless to continue.
 
901 said:
What is "the way things have been"?:confused:
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He has been downplayed on his research numerous times by different people. He simply feels it's pointless to continue posting to deaf ears. Also, the way this surgery is played down as to not be dangerous, but something that can be done over and over again. People, we are humans with sensitive organs. It's bad enough to have to go through this once much less multiple times. I'm stopping here because all it's going to do is create havoc amongst those that doubt this.
 
Been thinking off and on all day about Bob (RCB) and the significance of his historic life in the lives of all of us here. Quite a while back he posted a very eloquent thread on the courage of his mother. She agreed to a surgery for her sick child that no other child had survived, and only 4 adults had survived. He spoke of what she must have been feeling when she saw him wheeled into surgery, knowing that no child survived what she had just agreed to put her son through. It gives me a huge lump in my throat to even think of it.

Today we speak of the low mortality rate of VR and how successful the surgery is. In 1960, all Bob's mother knew was that she had just signed away precious days with her son in order to risk her son living a healthier life. At the time she signed the papers, over all valve replacement surgery mortality was in the 90 percentile range and for children it was 100%. What gave her the strength to take that risk?

I think of this and thank God for Bob's Mom, for Bob and for all those early people who risked their lives (and some losing) for a new operation that was totally unproven.
 
Ross said:
He has been downplayed on his research numerous times by different people. He simply feels it's pointless to continue posting to deaf ears. Also, the way this surgery is played down as to not be dangerous, but something that can be done over and over again. People, we are humans with sensitive organs. It's bad enough to have to go through this once much less multiple times. I'm stopping here because all it's going to do is create havoc amongst those that doubt this.
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Understand what you're saying about stopping, but what you're saying needs to be said. I can't say this from experience, but as a brother of a former patient. Not only are the patients going this, but their families are too.
 
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