Recent content by Dan Williams 88

Being an outlier, part of the vulnerable segment of the population, is particularly not the best when your system is designed more for the average user.

Thanks Pearjas! I'll take you up on that. I've seen 50 lbs to as well as "half your weight" or 100 lbs. I think I'm just going to have it moved to the new place and well, it will be there pending whatever decisions I make in the future. Sell, use, use for birdhouses-whatever!

Thanks Mina. I did do the buy in at first. Maxed out. Considering the physical: are we uninsurable? Crazy premium? Whats the deal?

I saw that! It's well explained there and wish I had read that back when I was first diagnosed in my early 20s. I had done some considerable research when first diagnosed a decade ago and I have no idea how I didn't come across aortopathy--until I crossed 4.0 and it was made clear to me. Maybe I...

I was looking for the answer to this! I didn't understand I had aortopathy-- and was progressing towards dilatation--until I had a MRI showing 4.4 in 2018. Yet I was being watched for a decade. I did 6 years between MRAs because of echo's sucking and under-counting my measurements After suddenly...

I'm happy to indulge tool talk. I spent (too much) on dewalt stuff. When it got stolen (and it was the yellow hand power tools that were stolen) it got recouped by insurance. Looking ahead at the move and questions about continuing the hobby, I kind of wish they had burned the garage down...

I get some through work, no physical--but I didn't attempt to go above the base amount and have a physical done. 150k base. If anyone has any notion of increasing that number/success stories, let me know. A friend said he shoots for 500k. I honestly try not to think about it.

I was browsing older threads today ingesting things, and saw another thread on this topic after posting--the one with Nocturne from a few years back. Helped me put some things in perspective after this post. Your response is what I'm working towards: acceptance and faith. I've been telling...

From the beginning that has been the line I've been told. I think its a way of sidestepping a morbid question and personally don't appreciate their (possible) gallows humor, but then again it may have been conditioned into them (cardios) based on patient responses. My first cardio even...

Protime: You're telling me! I had to do an insurance inventory because the garage was burglarized (they just took hand tools they could pawn quickly--doubt they knew how valuable many things were under their noses or what they were) and the number of items and what that total added up to...

Thanks Dick! A lot like other crafts, did they build them better back in 1967? :) Your signature makes me happy and hopeful--as well as your comment. Thank you!

Protime: Thanks for the reassurance. I have a great cardiologist, but he can be a bit contracted in responses (he's in high demand--appointment a year out type of situation). Obviously, I don't expect him to deliver a thesis, but you know...its mostly just a search for reassurance on my part...

HI All: Per the title, I'm new to the forum but have occasionally lurked as my mental health and anxiety would allow me to glimpse my future. I was diagnosed with BAV and aortic regurgitation shortly after college and have struggled with the diagnosis for the last decade. I've been lucky to...