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Eleven years ago this morning, I was being wheeled into surgery to replace my faulty aortic valve. I remembered thinking as I lay on the gurney that I would either wake up the other side of this surgery, or I’d wake up in heaven. Afterwards, the surgeon told me that my valve had closed...

Just a little background for the newbees on the tenth anniversary of my AVR. My surgery was a textbook case with full recovery, except for (1) the misdiagnosis beforehand. My congestive heart failure was misdiagnosed first as bronchitis and then as pneumonia (maybe a misdiagnosis is not that...

I'm sticking my nose in the chat room for the next hour or so.

I think I'll watch more of the commercials this year, but the game doesn't start for a couple hours yet.

It was nine years ago this morning for me. I'm currently beginning a twelve year project, but nine years ago there was no certainty at all that I had twelve weeks left of life. Since the surgeon found my aortic valve completely closed, I guess I didn't have twelve days or even twelve minutes...

I suppose that's how it goes. I turned eight last Monday, but was too busy with life to remember. I knew it was coming and was trying to think of something clever, and then totally forgot. I took my wife to a wake instead, took her out to eat (McDs), had a meeting, and made it home in time to...

On Yahoo Messenger, if nowhere else. If you add jimlangebartels, I'll invite you to the chat. I'm note sure I'll make it by 5 PM EST, but as soon as I can. We still have a few minutes of daylight and 71 gorgeous degrees to take advantage of.

How about chatting on Yahoo this evening? Contact jimlangebartels. I should be available shortly after 5 PM Eastern. Christina will be joining.

Last Monday night I did a perfect knee drop, sort of a wrestling move where you come down hard on your opponent, driving your knee into some vital area and incapacitating them. It was perfectly executed, the only problem being that the opponent was me. So I came down hard with all my weight...

Are there many VRcom members who also have facebook pages? Is there any advantage is linking up there as well as here? I just found a few small groups under valve replacement or coumadin usage there. Just curious.

Doesn?t that make sense? I?ve been eating coumadin now for seven years, which adds up to quite a lot of coumadin. So I thought that for my seventh valversary, I would calculate how many tons of coumadin I have now consumed. That can then be translated into the kind of animal, the equivalent...

I thought of posting this in the TOOTS forum, but the rules there are rather strict, so it ended up in Small Talk, where nearly anything goes. This picture was taken this May at graduation; I'm on the left, and my third son is next to me; the other two are the other father-son pair receiving...

Blood is red, but I turned blue, I was nearly dead Being on coumadin means a constant danger of a bleed—but in six years on coumadin that has never been a problem. I’ve cut myself repeatedly with no trouble at all; most often, I see I’m bleeding here or there and wonder how that happened. On...

2190 to be exact, or close to it, or probably 2191 with a leap year thrown in. I was planning to write something meaningful, or maybe even memorable, for my sixth anniversary, but life is just too busy, which is great. I haven't had any heart issues since the last time my card and I met for a...

If I meet anyone in my area taking warfarin, I tell them about the coumadin clinic I go to. I seem to have some kind of mental block understanding why anyone would prefer to have a veinous draw for an INR test instead of a finger poke. There's probably no hope of removing any of my mental...

Six currently on chat. To join us, click the Valvereplacement.com logo, then click on chat, enter your name and password, and you're in.

months old, or 5 years, so I guess I'm going to kindergarten. I don't have any great thoughts this morning, just all the things I've been able to see and do the past five years, things I would have missed out on if a very astute ER doctor hadn't found the problem quickly. I watched my daughter...

I won't be at chat tomorrow, reason following. Benjamin Noah was born this past Tuesday evening, 9 lb, 10 oz, 22-1/2 inches long, our first grandson. I'll be at the baptism instead of at chat.

Four years ago this morning I was begging them please to give me some happy juice before they stuck one more needle into me; I had had enough needles! Four years ago this morning I was begging them not to shave off all my hair, since I had spent so very much of my life up to that point growing...

Is there interest in a chat tomorrow, beginning around 5 PM EST? I haven't been available for a few weeks, but I think I will be tomorrow. From a few weeks ago: "If the chat feature of this forum (accessed from the home page) is up and running this Sunday, we'll be there at 5 PM EST. If not...