Recent content by Shellbell

O and btw- its the 19th now so i hope you're feeling fine and "bosses day" went well. Hopefully you'll be on your wY home any day and starting your own follow-up. Looking forward to hearing how it went.

Drew- Im 3 weeks out from surgery and my follow-up was see my gp a week after coming home, then see my cardiologist 4 weeks after coming home ( thats next week, i had a chest xray and bloodwork done yesterday for it, first bloodwork since the hospital since i went tissue so no INR to monitor )...

Hi Fernca911, I'm what i call a very young 43, ( i have no kids and still rock it like i'm 30 i like to think lol) and i am 3 1\2 weeks out from my AVR. I think the statement that we are all very different is true, but it seems easier by and large for younger folks. I was quite petrified in...

Wow Dave, you have 30 years on me and you're pretty much kickin my arse! I am just over 3 weeks out and yesterday i walked 3 km in one go, longest one i have done so far, then another 2 km later on.... I am very impressed with your progress and wish you all the best next weekend!!! You can do...

Jm i seem to be experiencing the exact same thing. Pain is doable, and seems concentrated an inch or 2 to the right of the incision, very tender there and even the skin seems sensitive. Not like that on the left... Wonder what thats about?

Makes me very happy to read this, especially the last sentence: " Dr. Ihlberg even suggests that initial valve replacements should be done in ways that set the stage for future Valve-in-Valve repairs." I spoke with my surgeon about this, wanted him to make this as viable an option for me as...

Hi cococat, I will be thinking of you this Tuesday and will send lots of vibes of love, light and healing your way! You sound like you are looking at this with a terrific positive attitude and I am sure you will come out with flying colors. Are you having an AVR and a bypass? I just had my...

Tony - I am so pleased that they got you in quickly after your postponement and that things went well!! Sorry to hear about your hematoma, but from all of your posts I am sure you will conquer that soon too. Really hope they get your INR stabilized soon and u get to go home. Thats whats...

Tony - I am so pleased that they got you in quickly after your postponement and that things went well!! Sorry to hear about your hematoma, but from all of your posts I am sure you will conquer that soon too. Really hope they get your INR stabilized soon and u get to go home. Thats whats...

Well no wonder i felt so devastatingly awful for 24 hours!! I am a week home now, and all seems to be going well. I've been blessed with some beautiful weather, so i've been walking in the sunshine. Started going down to the corner and back on the first day, 5 times. Worked up to around...

So yesterday morning the nurse gave me some Sofran (sic) via my iv and that worked a charm. Once my nausea went i was better able to keep down the Tylenol and get over both the pain and nausea. I always wondered how on those survival shows a wee bite of squirrel would fill you up, but after 3...

Well at that point i figured that if it did indeed continue to dilate in future and ever needed repair, then i had spared myself some years of warfarin. Have since spoken with my surgeon whilst i was somewhat more coherent and he said it actually looked quite normal. Its about 3.5 cm and not...

So here i sit at Toronto General, and i made it!! Less than 24 hours after surgery i was on my walker and so far this been relatively easy. My surgeon decided not to graft my 3.8 cm aneurysm, makes me glad i chose tissue. I was still pretty out of it this morning when i spoke to him but hubby...

I was thrilled to hear that my surgeon us a major contributor to this research team!! I was going to donate some genetic material towards another study regarding aortal aneurysm and bileaflet valves, but my surgeon decided i did not need the graft.

Hi 07sti..... I was like you when i first found this site...I trolled for hours and hours. That was this spring, shortly after being told I was probably gonna need surgery "sometime before Xmas" by my cardiologist. My journey went like this -10 years ago, told i had a heart murmur, went for...