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Feb 26 I was in surgery early in the morning, getting a brand-spankin' new piggy valve for my aorta, a nice shiny ring for my mitral valve, and a whole new path for the mice to run as they send electrical impulses from the atria to the ventricles. Mar 9 I got to come home. Mar 13, my birthday...

Hi y'all, I'm nearly 8 mos post op from a "triple whammy" heart surgery. Unfortunately, my heart has settled into a bradycardia with my "normal" resting heart rate in the high 40's and my max exercise rate just under 100. When I sleep, the heart rate has dropped as low as 31 (measured by...

Hi everyone I am Cindy, posting for Shari. Surgery went very well. They had her up and sitting on side of bed by 4pm. (was out of surgery to recovery about 1130am). Little bit of nausea last night. Transfusion to get her blood pressure up where they wanted it. She was laughing, joking and...

Ok, just talked with my surgeon and we've set the date. I'll be having a full Cox-Maze IV, AVR and Mitral repair/replacement. We've been waiting for my hyperthyroid to go hypothyorid after after two radioactive ablations. It crashed over this past weekend, sending me to the ER on Monday Jan...

Hi all Shari asked me to let you all know that she is taking a precautionary trip to the hospital today. Been having minor chest pains all weekend and since today is a Holiday, the Drs. are not available. She is anticipating coming home this afternoon, but if not I will be back with an...

I had an echo yesterday and my heart is improving, taking me off the short list for surgery. The ejection fraction went from 70 to 72% and the heart wall is no longer thickening. I still have the moderate leak in the aortic valve and mild leaks in both the mitral and pulmonary valves, and am...

Hello folks, I'm new here and have recently been diagnosed with a leaking bicuspid aortic valve, atrial fibrillation, chronic heart failure, sleep apnea, and thyroid nodules... That's a lot to take in when I thought I was just too fat and living at 5300 feet was causing me to be short of...