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I’m not sure why my tenth Valversary post came up as “Guest”, but that was me, PairoDocs. I am feeling better this year. While life’s problems still persist, I am not in the depths of despair as last year. I know this is late, but thank each and everyone of you who took the time to respond to...

The 11th valversary came and went before I knew it, but I finally remembered 11 days later. I haven’t checked in lately, and thought about everyone here who had been kind and supportive during the recovery time since my out-of-the-blue emergency mitral valve repair on 12/12/2007. I’m shocked...

Nine Years Ago today, 12/12/07 I had 63 minutes of "heart-stopping drama" as my flail mitral valve had its emergency repair while I was in severe heart-failure and nearly fatal severe pulmonary edema. By the grace of God I survived. While it took many years to get over the depression, it's...

Hello, Sorry for being so scarce lately. It has been a rough 1 1/2 years since Laura left, so I haven't felt much up to doing a lot of things. I'm slightly better now, so I'm thankful for small favors. I'm grateful to be alive even if it sounds like I'm not. Eight years seem like a long...

Since it's my eighth valversary, I decided to stop by. My mother is still with us. She's going through some post OHS depression, so she doesn't want to see me and the kids this year for Christmas. She had suffered from some atrial fibrillation for a few months and despite getting a tissue...

Thank you all for your kind words of support. I haven't been here in a long time due to my traumatic response to the divorce. Only now am I starting to feel like I'm moving on a bit. The kids have suffered a lot. Both, despite high intelligence have failing grades in school, and I don't know...

Sorry Hensylee about your wrist. Sounds like somebody needs to read the Hippocratic Oath again and DO NO HARM (read: fix your wrist regardless of age)!! Of course there could be heart-related issues that the doc's worried about, and age was merely a convenient extra excuse. As for my mother...

Hello Everyone, I'm still kicking after 7 years, though Laura and I got divorced this past August. We still get along, and even had dinner together tonight as a family after our son KC sang at a choir concert, and had a solo there. Today I came online to report that my mother, age 82...

Hello all, I'm writing in the Significant Others category because I really have a SO with OHS. My mother, Jeannette, started having difficulty with aerobic activity about six months ago, and decided to have things looked at. It turns out that after over 70 years since she had rheumatic...

I meant I had my mitral valve repair in 12/12/07, so it was six years, approaching seven, since my surgery. I meant to say "six years" not just "six" in my post title.

Sorry for the rambling. My original idea behind this post was to inform my OHS buddies that Laura would not likely ever post here again due to the divorce. So take it from me, significant others ARE affected by our OHS and recoveries from same. We can't take our partners for granted; they're...

I guess that there's no delicate way of saying this, but in August of this year, Laura decided that my stunted recovery from my emergency mitral valve repair, manifested by my not getting back into living again, was just too much for her. There was no abuse, physical, verbal, or emotional...

Hello again, I know I haven't been here much. Life is busy. Still trying to manage home stuff. Thanks for being there for each other and for Laura and me over the past six years. I guess I joined this forum six years ago this month. So it's my "forumversary" or the like. :D I hope to...

Folks, I realize my wife and I haven't come as often as we used to, so I apologize for that. Six years ago today Dr. Huerd saved my life by repairing my flail mitral valve. Speaking of valves, I still don't know of my friend Mike and his wife Susan ever made it to this site or not--so I...

Hello Everyone, Sorry for my long absence. I'm back because I just found last night several days after it happened that one of my best friends from back in junior high. Mike, had emergency OHS following what at had first seemed to be a mild heart attack, and I've told both him and his wife...