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Hello all, I know I was MIA for a bit but it's because I had to get some traveling done for work before the baby arrived which is why I've been MIA. Chase Matthew arrived 10/5 at 3:33pm 9lbs. 1oz and 21" long. (my wife was quite the trooper!) Here are the pictures: Chase and Dr. Parill...

I was kickin around on the net and I came across this slideshow on artifical valves and thought it was kinda neat. It may have been posted before and if it was dont beat me up about posting it again. Anyway here is the link for those interested: Heart Valve Slideshow There is an interesting...

Well, this weekend is round two. Last year before my son Nick was born I had the bright idea of doing something special for his room. The wife and I decided on a cool kiddie pirate theme for his bedding and my bright idea was to do a mural of a pirate ship in his room. I found some pictures for...

I saw Dr. Matter today to schedule my MVR. We sat down and he went over the cath results from May, echo's from the last 5 years and the one he did in July. He said "well, your LV function (35% on the cath in May) has increased, your now showing on your last echo 45-50% which is in acceptable...

I thought I'd share this, my cardiologist laughed his ass off when he heard it. I've been on coumadin for over 30 years, I started taking it in 1979. Needless to say I'm used to it and to be honest very blase about it. In 2006 I had been hitting the gym hard for about a year and had really...

Hello all, My name is Matt...where to start? Okay, in 1972 at age 1 I was diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis, in 73 it was decided that I needed a valvotomy (there wasnt really anything else they could do for me at the time) which obviously was sucessfuly performed at Santa Rosa Medical Center...