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Hi all, I am playing phone tag with Just-Waiting (Steve) but I was happy to have a message from him yesterday, enough to know he made it through surgery and was headed home - probably today.:smile2: If you don't know Steve's story, this is his second OHS in 7 months. His first was in late...

Everyone keep Just-Wating in your thoughts and prayers. He is having his second OHS in 7 months tomorrow. I'm sending all the good vibes I can muster. Good Luck!

What can I say? I am so sorry for completely abandoning my fellow throwdowners in the St. Patty’s day race and even worse, not checking in when I knew y’all were probably wondering how I was getting along. :o I feel so guilty! Believe it or not I thought about ya’ll every day. I don’t know...

Greetings from Austin! Rhena is progressing at a rapid pace thathas amazed the physicians and nurses. Intubation tube came out a couple of hours after the surgery and was able to come off oxygen at 3AM this morning. I stayed with her last night and she slept off an on waking up to do her...

Hi to all of Rhena's wonderful supportive friends. This is her sister Rhonda and her surgery went well. We just saw her for the first time but she was still asleep but I guess she has been irritated by the intubation tube so they are hoping to take it out soon. The surgeon said she did not...

This is Rhena's sister Rhonda reporting that the surgery is over and all went well. She is still in recovery so we haven't seen her yet. Surgeon said she did not have a bicuspid valve as previously thought but a tricuspid valve with thickned leaflets and a membrane of some sort. It is not the...

I got a voice message from Just Waiting's (Steve's) wife at 2:15 pm this afternoon. I think she said her name was Marlene, but I didn't catch it. (Actually her name is Louise! Doesn't evens sound like Marlene!) Anyway, she said she hasn't seen him yet, but Dr. Oswalt came out and talked to...

When I met with my surgeon again recently, he told me that I get to pick whether I want tissue or mechanical valve, but if I pick tissue - which I have -then he will decide from there whether I get Bovine or Porcine. One was stented and one was stentless and I cannot remember which was which...

I'm feeling like a bit of baby today - heck not just today - for several days now. I just couldn't get out of bed this morning - I have been so tired all week and today just couldn't face it. My surgery is coming soon to replace my aortic valve. Feb 2nd. I don't know if my problem is...

Hi all. I have been lurking around VR for well over a year now, mostly lin Cooker's Throwdown - trying to shed some pounds for the 'one day' surgery. If anyone else finds themselves looking to lose some weight or just keep it under control - come and join us on the throwdown. It is a great...

FRANCE: Transcatheter-valve registry permits "observation" of CoreValve, Sapien diffe Interesting article I thought. Apparently in France they are in trials with 2 different types of transcatheter valves. All the news is still so hopeful and Europe is so often ahead of the game. You have to...

Interesting article and while the claims have not been substantiated, it does make one think about whether you can always trust recommendations from your Dr. You have to consider if there is some underlying reason for their recommendation of one manufacturer's products over another. I'm...

After a frustrating few months and a series of tests, it turns out surgery for AVR is in the cards (as it has been for more than 10 years) but not just yet (another post tells that whole saga.) I had gone so far as to schedule consultations with surgeons so I kept those appt’s. The second...

I am frustrated, relieved and a little angry over a sequence of events over the last few months that I wondered if anyone else had experienced or had something similar. I have AS and am in the waiting room. The consensus is that it is congenital, but not sure if BAV. Annual checkups with cardio...

Just wondering if anyone else with Aortic Stenosis doesn't really know the cause? I'm 55, so shouldn't be due to old age. My Mom said I didn't have rheumatic fever. I never took Phen Phen. It was my gynocologist that first noticed a murmur 10 years ago and sent me to a cardiolgist. Cardio told...

Hello everyone! I think I have found where I need to be. I'm not sure what the throwdown in this context means.... like a challenge or something? And Cooker you seem to be quite a character. Anyway sounds like a fun group and where I need to be. I am looking at AVR in the near future. I...

Hi everyone - feel like I sort of know some of ya'll since I have been lurking in cyberspace and now I am coming out of the closet so to speak. So a hardy hello from Texas. My story is the same as so many I have read here. I'm a 55year old, Female from Austin. For 10 years we have been...