Recent content by ChrisW

I’m not in the UK, and I did not have an aortic aneurysm that needed to be repaired, so my experience is obviously a little different than yours will be. With that being said, I am 50 years old and this past Wednesday marks one month since my surgery to replace a bicuspid aortic valve, and 3...

Love hearing this from all of you! Wednesday was my 3 week post open heart surgery day (aortic valve replaced with a mechanical and then a pacemaker implanted a week later). Every day does get better, but the “brain fog” has been incredibly frustrating and some days the whole “normal” life...

Getting home finally has made a HUGE difference in just 24 hours. Unlike others who have said they do better in a rehab facility or might cut corners at home, I am the sort of person that you need to tell me I am well enough to start pushing myself to recover, and then just get the heck out of...

Thought I owed everyone an update since it's been a while. I went in on 2/9 for the valve replacement. The good news is that the valve was definitely the only "plumbing" repair that was needed. The bad news was the rhythms would never sync up on their own naturally. End result was that last...

I'm glad to hear yours went well! My surgery is bright and early tomorrow morning. My nerves have definitely been a bit on edge this week building up to it, but reading about your experience immediately ahead of mine has definitely helped to calm some of the anxiety!

I had bronchitis over the holidays which slowed me down a lot on ANY cardio, so I am just keeping up with my normal walking routine between now and surgery and not trying to do anything too "extra" in that regard. Thankfully, I am relatively fit to begin with, so I'm not too concerned on that...

New member here and just thought I'd do a quick intro. I found out about 8 years ago that I have a BAV, and it would have to be replaced "someday." Four years after I found out about mine, my 77 year old father found out that he was going to have to have HIS BAV replace. Unfortunately, he was...