Recent content by agilbert817

Hubby had AVR on 9/7 and was doing relatively well until this past Wednesday. He started to run a fever of 102+ out of nowhere. They directly admitted him to the hospital and started running tons of tests. Besides generally feeling not well, he had no symptoms. His white blood cell counts...

Thanks a ton, everyone! Our home health nurse kinda implied we might break the valve loose by walking too much. Haha. The day before we walked 8,000 steps and were soooo proud of that. He's got a Garmin watch, so we're going to start tracking it and trying to do just a little more each day...

Hey there! Hubby is 10 days post-op from an aortic valve replacement. They did the surgery via mini-thoracotomy, so he's doing really well. He's hardly in any pain and says he feels great. How active should/shouldn't he be? We heard he should walk a lot, but then the home health nurse just...

I spoke with the surgeon's PA and they didn't seem to overly concerned. They basically said practice good hand hygiene, use hand sanitizer, etc. She reminded me that he'll be out and about around people who may/may not be sick, people will be visiting with unknown germs. If either kid is...