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Hello all, Last year at this time I was being brought out of anesthesia following my AVR it was the beginning of a re-newed life for me. To think that a year has passed! Were it not for the well-healed scar which most mornings I note as I am blow drying my hair there are days when I would...

Dana (dcat96) had her AVR on Tuesday (9/2) at Brigham and Womens in Boston and is doing well!!! I actually had the pleasure of SEEING her today in the ICU. She is still a bit uncomfortable and would probably not agree with me but I THOUGHT SHE LOOKED GREAT!!!!! According to Dana the...

As many of you know I was in the "waiting room" for 8 years before my AVR which finally occurred on Aug 6. During those years I watched the post-op forum like a hawk, rejoicing every time I saw those emails announcing one of us had made it! I envied them and prayed and hoped I would one day...

From the first day I joined this forum over three years ago I have thought about this post. When would I be writing it? Who would be the surgeon? Where would I be having the surgery? What valve would I be choosing? Would I have the courage and peacefulness of so many of the writers here...

Just came across an interesting article in the "Perspective" section of last week's New England Journal of Medicine, October 4, vol 357, no 14, pp1368 -1371. The title is The Development of Prosthetic Heart Valves - Lessons in Form and Function. The author is Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D...

I received the following from Kim's sister Jen this morning. Hi Barbara, Kim is still in the hospital, but is doing very well. I think she will be out of ICU tomorrow and home from the hospital shortly after that. She can't wait to get home! Thank you so much for your caring. Please feel...

Kim should be home by now. I think she's about nine days post-op. Her sister posted the day she came out of surgery but nothing since. Wondered if anyone had heard from her? Barbara