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My St. Jude Regent has been ticking along for 731 days. I’m feeling good! Pic from a friend’s wedding last month — I haven’t cut my hair since November, 2019.

3 inch scar from January, 2020 mini-sternotomy for AVR, visibility partially obstructed by fur.

I went to the BMS site to look up the vitamin K content of some food -- something I couldn't find in the USDA's Food Central database, and I saw this alert: IMPORTANT ALERT: COUMADIN (warfarin sodium) is being discontinued in the U.S. Inventory may still be available at your pharmacy. If you...

It's been a week and a day since surgery, and mostly, I'm feeling pretty good, knock on wood! I'm taking lots of short walks, but since I live on the top of a hill, I haven't ventured off it yet. Sternal pain is not too bad, and I've been handling it with Acetaminophen/Paracetamol/Tylenol...

When I was 17, I was dating the daughter of an orthopedic surgeon. One day, he listened to my heart with his stethoscope and told me, "You have a heart murmur." I told my primary care doctor about it, so he listened to my heart and didn't hear anything, so I forgot about it for 23 years. I went...