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Wanted to get some feedback from everyone about fluid retention and what you experienced after you returned home from the hospital. My ankles are huge! I'm taking the meds per my doctor and will start watching my sodium a little more closely, but the fluid I was expecting to lose pretty...

Today is a week since I had my surgery and I have to say that I'm feeling so much better than I ever thought I'd feel after having had open heart surgery. My surgery was in the afternoon, so my "fun" didn't begin until late Monday evening. I really have nothing good to say about the...

I had radiation treatment for Hodgkin's Disease when I was 16. Now, 30 years later, the damage from that radiation treatment is causing the need for my aortic valve to be replaced. Am I scared to death? Of course. Am I trying to stay positive? Yes. Is that harder some days than others? You...