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  1. spartangator

    29, male, upcoming BAVR

    Great to have you (you know what I mean :)), and as others have mentioned, this is the place to do lots of learning and get support. I was your age when my work was done, 17 years ago now, and there are a range of other young adult patients on here as well, should you ever need to message...
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    56 years clicking!!!

    Congratulations, Dick. Thank you for leading the way.
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    1 year anniversary

    Congratulations! Great update
  4. spartangator

    Two years 🥳

    Congratulations and many more to you!
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    Returning to pre-surgery levels of exercise

    Just wanted to say welcome SLB. I was about the same age at my procedure and work through many of the same questions. To add another vote to @pellicle's advice about the chest strap, I've found great utility there, mostly to set a cap on my HR during workouts so I can be smarter. Also...
  6. spartangator

    27 Years Today

    Congratulations and here's to many more!
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    33 Year Old Male, Recent Aortic Valve Replacement (Dec 2022)

    Great to have you here, Cormac. Glad all is trending so well and that you're on the other side of so much now. Indeed, documenting the details will serve some future site member so fair play for sharing all that. I don't want to comment too much and be out of place in response to your...
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    Quinceanera for my Tissue Valve

    Feliz compleanos to your valve!
  9. spartangator

    32 years since my first!

    Congratulations and happy birthday to all the parts of you.
  10. spartangator

    Ross procedure complete

    @PAN, all the best with rehab. I found that super fruitful in terms of regaining confidence and understanding what progress would look like. Onward and upward, as @pellicle says. Here's to loads of progress!
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    15 years

    I'm laughing at the National Geographic image of the gorilla chewing with the sort-of sideways operating jaw to make mush out of leaves 🤣. That is a great image.
  12. spartangator

    15 years

    Yeah, adept question, for sure. As you note, there really only seems to be a rule of thumb here, and there is substantial disagreement about what counts as an issue. Interestingly, I've found some research showing the valve measurement is often largely correlated to a person's size, too, so it's...
  13. spartangator

    Need a Aortic Valve Replacement before year ends

    Just wanted to add another welcome, @Dunwanted. As you can see, you're in the right place with lots of supportive people.
  14. spartangator

    15 years

    Key part of every meal! And cheering for Michigan State is fun as well! Though I do also want to say that because of everyone here, including many of you in this thread specifically, I have basically zero concern about ever having to take warfarin, should that day come, so hats off for the...
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    15 years

    Yeah, everything is biological, apart from the Dacron wraps. I did just have a CT scan, and I'm not thrilled about my ascending aortic growing to 4.1. That's been a steady march in annual scans and might be a function of just getting older, but it's definitely causing big emotions this week.
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