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irish, Wishing you all the best for a successful surgery and a smooth, bump-free recovery. All your friends here at VR will be keeping you in our thoughts and prayers tomorrow. If possible, please have someone post when you are over the mountain. Looking forward to reading your updates! Nadine:)

I am thrilled to report that David spoke to Danny's wife a little while ago and Danny is out of surgery and he did just GREAT!!! The surgeon repaired the aortic aneurysm and Danny did need one small bypass but his surgeon was able to spare his aortic valve - yeah!:) They expect him to be moved...

So, I finally heard David's On-X valve clicking today and it was a beautiful sound! I had been asking him whether he heard it and he kept saying that he hadn't noticed it. This afternoon when he was laying down and the TV was off and there was no other noise in the room he called me over to...

Well it's not an official tawdry shirt and he's not assuming the requisite disco pose (actually it looks more like a mug shot;)) but Ross said that this pic would make a great TOOTS pic so here it is (I've never attached a photo to a post before so I hope it shows up!): Nadine

Hey Everyone! Thank you all again for all your thoughts and prayers as we prepared for surgery, during David's stay in the hospital and now as he is recovering at home. I have posted photos of his homecoming in an album on my profile page. Here is the link...

We are being sprung!!!!!:) It was a longer stay (14 days) than we anticipated but it has given David more time to get a little stronger and hopefully make it a little easier on me now when we get home. His INR got to 1.99 yesterday (from 1.3 something the day before - a much bigger jump than we...

David will be getting a Medtronic Concerto CRT-D pacemaker/defibrillator tomorrow morning. Just curious how many of you have a pacemaker/defibrillator and what your experiences have been with it. Thanks! Nadine

7 days post surgery and David has finally moved out of the CICU to the step down (telemetry) unit - yeah! It was a tiring day for him with the move and the removal of most of the lines (including the line in his neck that was really uncomfortable) and the foley catheter, and he also walked for...

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to let you know that David had his surgery yesterday and we are really happy that the surgeon was able to use the On-X valve along with a separate graft to repair his aorta. Unfortunately the surgeon had to open him up again while he was still in the OR because he...

Thank you everyone for your good wishes. In case you didn't catch it on the original thread, we have postponed David's surgery until Mon. 8/24 so we can get some more of our questions answered from the surgeon regarding the repair of David's aortic aneurysm. We're meeting with him later today...

Hi Everyone! Thank you again for all the warm welcomes and I just wanted to let you all know that David is scheduled for AVR on Friday morning. He had a CT scan today to determine if he also needs to have part of the aorta replaced. The surgeon did not have a chance to look at the CT scan when...

Hi, Just wanted to introduce myself and my husband (who is at a baseball card show today after having a cath on Friday - he would have liked to have gone yesterday but I made him rest ;)!). My husband, David, is 52 yo and was diagnosed with congenital aortic stenosis at birth. He had two...