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YIPEEE!!:D I have been trying to decide if I should send my surgeon and cardio an Anniversary/Thank You/or Happy 1st Birthday card. Maybe the Birthday card,as my bovine valve is a year old now.This is great-I can eat cake and ice cream 2 times a year now. Do we get presents too(?) Thanks to...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2008/12/25/doggie.steals.bone.ksl Once you get past the ad..it's worth watching.

I am getting over a pretty intense flu and thought I could share with you all what helps...sometimes. If you aren't sick yet ,but are having the VERY first prodromal signs you can take: -3 chopped garlic cloves -A hand full of fresh chopped ginger - Cayenne (a tsp)...

Yesterday while making an omelette, one of the eggs had none. I looked again in the bowl squinting...no yellow:confused: I have never seen this,but fear I know the reasons. I always tell my husband to buy eggs from the "free roaming" chickens,not only because they are better but because I have...

Today marks my 6 month post op anniversary. Even though somedays I feel good , I do have fluctuations. I knew that when I had my surgery it was not going to immediately repair the damage done to my rt. atrium and ventricle, that my surgery was more to prevent further damage , damage that was...

My grandmother Grace would have had her 79th birthday today. I bring her to your attention because she gave me my sense of hope and optimism and always said 'if you want it badly enough , no matter what it may be , you can get it.' And she was right - it may involve alot of hard work etc, but...

Even before OHS , I was an obsessed reader: fiction & nonfiction. Of the mystery -Doyle, Chandler,Rex Stout,and Preston and Child's new mysterious character Special Agent Aloysious Pendergast( Love it!). Some fantasy , like Piers Anthony's;The Books of Immortality ' featuring all 7...

Im not sure that this is my prob, but 2 days ago I noticed a little redness on the bottom1/2 inch of my previously healed incision. Now it is 'pooching out' just a little. There is also what looks to be a small angioma or red spider vein on top of the scar. Im about 10 weeks post op,have no...

I had a bovine tricuspid replacement 9 weeks ago and found this site only about 2 weeks ago,but better late than never. Prior to discharge my surgeon informed me that my internal pace-wires were going to be cut but left inside since I had an INR of 2.2 and he didnt want bleeding. In response I...

Hi! Im new to this site but not new to heart probs. I had a tricuspid valve replacement (bovine)on Feb 4, 2008. This surgery was long overdue and as a result I have mild -mod right heart failure.So even though I have had the surgery, my MD tells me that it may take some time for my rt...