Recent content by Kilkenny Rose

I had a lot of back pain after surgery, but it went away. Not sure how soon, probably a couple of weeks at most. Try ice packs to help the pain and muscle tension. I learned that trick when I had neck surgery last summer.

I had a TEE last year to determine more accurately the stenosis in my aortic valve in order to get clearance to have vital surgery on my neck as quickly as possible. Even then my cardio wanted to operate on my heart first. That was a shock. We were able to convince him the neck surgery was...