Recent content by bbbdirector

Congratulations on 30 years and I wish you many many many+ more years with no more or minor complications from any you have previously had. It has been 42 for me.

The heart shock that was explained to me was to lay pads on my chest and shoot electricity thought me. I was concerned that the clot on the leaflet of my tricuspid valve would move throughout me lungs from the shock.

The tricuspid valve is leaking and torn.

I received a St Jude Mitral valve, a bovine aortic valve and an artificial aorta root, plus 2 bypasses in 2010. I have not totally regained my health yet, but I have progressed quite a bit. For the past month, I have been considerably more short of breath. Last Thursday a tee revealed that my...

I received a St Jude Mitral valve, a bovine aortic valve and an artificial aorta root, plus 2 bypasses in 2010. I have not totally regained my health yet, but I have progressed quite a bit. For the past month, I have been considerably more short of breath. Last Thursday a tee revealed that...

Hello. It has been some time since I posted. I just had a bout with pneumonia and a 7-day hospital stay. I am still recovering from the effects of the pneumonia - mostly wheezing, coughing and asthma. I found this group today because I have has significant nose bleeds for the last 3 nights -...

Hi: It's been a while; however, I am still here. I had heart valve surgery on Nov. 23, 2010 and was released from the Cleveland Clinic on July 31, 2011. I am still wondering when will I feel normal again? I still can not walk very far without my chest tightening up and feeling out of...

I know its been quite awhile since my last update but here it goes....Mom made it home after 8 months @ the Cleveland Clinic & Rehab on Thursday, July 28th! She's doing great and I'm sure she will come around and log on in the near future. Thank you all for your thoughts & prayers. She pulled...

Thanks everyone for your kind words. Why are there so many setbacks when it comes to my mom??? Fluid took over her body in the past week, it wasn't going into her blood vessels so they're once again slowly removing the fluid from her to not upset her kidney's, heart & lungs. The drs keep...

Hello All, Just wanted to let you know that my mom is still @ the Cleveland Clinic in the Pulmonary unit. She's doing well with the weening from the ventilator. She almost had a set back in regards to the "pockets of fluids" outside of her lungs, the drs were thinking she will need surgery to...

Hi All, Just wanted to give a quick update on my mom. She's now in the Pulmonary Care Unit with a tracheonomy learning to breath healthy again. She's struggling with not being able to talk and having been in the hospital for over 3 months but she is making baby steps of improvement. They've...

9:30am yesterday I woke up and called the doctor @ the Cleveland Clinic and poured my heart out to her that my mom is in a bad way and I do not feel as though GWU Hospital has the expertise to solve her issues, please help! The doctor told me that the Cleveland Clinic can send their airplane to...

It's been a while since I last sent an update about my mom (bbbdirector). My mother was released from the Cleveland Clinic on Saturday, Feb. 5th and transported by ambulance to a Washington DC Specialty Hosp/Rehab. My mom was totally out of it the next day (assuming she was exhausted from the...

Right Al...LASIX, thanks for helping me out with that one.

Procedure that my mom is leary of... Procedure that my mom is leary of... My mom asked me to post this on the forum to get your opinion. The doctors have proposed to her (after she declined this procedure two days ago) that if she agree to get the procedure called "The Swan" in which they can...