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Congrats on 15!

Congrats Dick! You're an inspiration to us all.

I have a similar story. Arotic valve replaced with On-X and had ascending aorta replaced with graft. Node was damaged during surgery. I was a little disappointed to know I'd have to live with an additional piece of hardware. Overall the pacemaker has been easy to manage. I too am not aware of...

Thanks for sharing!

Hello Jamieann! Glad to hear you don't need a pacemaker. I had to have a pacemaker after my surgery. Doctors were hoping I didn't need it but in the end I needed it. I use it 10% of the time. I was 28 years old when I had surgery. I'm 33 now. Overall the pacemaker has been a non issue. This...

Mr. Pellicle thank you for the very informative video. I'm now on the fence with the accuracy of any home monitor when under heparin/lovenox. I'm basically going to practice what I was instructed to do until my lovenox dosing is done. The good news is the relatively short half life of the...

Big correction to my above post. I test with a coaguchek unit not an inratio unit. I just came home from gallbladder surgery and I think the pain meds are getting the best of me. Again, I tested lab versus at home with a coaguchek unit which I've found the coaguchek unit has consistently...

Well Rob you're a better man than me I made a huge mistake in my first post. Must be the pain meds. I do have a Coaguchek.... A small detail. So sorry to all that I confused. So now the rabbit hole goes deeper. Maybe I had a bad testing strip or an overall bad read. I will run it again...

I have tested lab versus my inratio and have noticed the inratio consistently tests 0.5 higher than the lab results for me.

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Hello Family, It's been awhile. Sorry I've been away, I guess life just got busy and my internal heart hardware has become such a part of me along with daily warfarin dosing. Well I just got home from having emergency gallbladder surgery. My INR was 2.8 On Tuesday 9-1-15 morning so I was given...

Always consult with your medical team about any health concerns. I'm 3 years post op and still experience mild visual disturbances and dizziness , very mild. The first two years after surgery for me was full of little strange disturbances. Now in the third year I can say I'm completely back to...

Dang... You guys are deep. I need to study more.

I was put on beta blockers after surgery as a percussion and because I had normal/high blood presssure. My cardiologist figured I should stay on a low dose for life. I took the meds for several months but endured strange and annoying side effects. I didn't know if the very small dose of the beta...

As always this is a personal choice. Every situation is different. I chose mechanical because I wanted to give myself the best statistical odds of avoiding repeat surgeries. I was 28 at the time of my surgery. I took a chance with the On-X valve based on the manufacturers claims. One feature...