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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    Heys! Thanks for the welcome greet! I wish you all the best my friend! Cheers!
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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    Thanks my dear friend! I wish you all the best 2! Cheers!
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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    Heys hi my friend! Thanks for the wishes; yes i am lucky to have had my mom taking care of me. Now she´s back in Peru, where I am from, and me doing the rehab in Austria, where I now live. Wish you the best too! Cheers!
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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    Thanks dude! All the best for u 2!
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    Strugglng with my decision

    Hello Lyn! Thanks for your reply and for sharing your experience as a mother with me. I can understand but never imagine the love of a mother: is unique. Thank God mothers exist! They are the best! :) As for your child, its quite tough to read all the things hes been through since being born...
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    One month post op and my heart is still pounding like a hammer--this is normal?

    My friends! I have read all your posts, and they are really helpful. Since I had the Ross Operation, I dont hear my heartbeat so strong;still I can hear it more than before! I think I can get used to it. Nevertheless, I am experiencing since yesterday some pain in the left-side of my neck...
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    Strugglng with my decision

    Mary, thanks for your wishes! I wish you also all the best! Kind regards!
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    Strugglng with my decision

    Dear Escargome (Don´t know your name :)) I really thank you for your kind words! I am pretty sure you should be a good mom! I wish you also all the luck! Best regards!
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    Strugglng with my decision

    Hey my friends! it´s been quite some time since my last post. Before my operation I kind of disappeared from the scene, but now I am back. I finally decided myself to undergo the Ross Operation. I value the thing that I dont have to take anticoagulants, and that I dont have to watch out...
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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    Hey my friends! it´s been quite some time since my last post. Before my operation I kind of disappeared from the scene, but now I am back. I finally decided myself to undergo the Ross Operation. I value the thing that I dont have to take anticoagulants, and that I dont have to watch out...
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    After your surgery, what are some of the things that you found out that surprised you

    Some inputs from my experience with my AVR Some inputs from my experience with my AVR I agree with most of the things (eyperiences) that T in YVR told, and add some of my own: - I was surprised also by the draining tubes. They look so weird inserted in your stomach. And painful, when they...
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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    All the best for a speedy healing period! You are right! It`s all about the future, and it is uncertain... Did you have the surgery with Dr. Stelzer in the US, or in Ireland with another surgeon? I totally agree with your opinion. I think I am gonna do also the Ross procedure! Hope...
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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    Thanks for your reply! How do you feel 8 weeks after the OP? As if you had a new heart? By the way, I have found a surgeon here in Vienna, who seems to be the most experienced one, who has done this Ross procedure since 1994, 200 Ross OP more or less.I think he is the surgeon to go to. Why...
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    ROSS Procedure Talk

    Thanks for the reply Pete! Here in Vienna I have also found a Doctor, who seems is the most prepared and experienced regarding the Ross procedure, Dr. Günther Laufer. I keep thinking of the fact of being reoperated after a while...instead of taking anticoagulants...hope Ross is the best...
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    Strugglng with my decision

    Is it too difficult to ask not being reoperated and not having to take anticoagulants...I wonder :S
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