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I'm sorry if I am putting this in the wrong place. Could someone fix it for me, if I have. My family wanted someone to write to the good people here and thank everyone for all the help and spirit lifting you gave my Uncle Rick over the past two or three months. He was Old Geezer in NC, here on...

Well since I've been acused of having old timers disease by my wife I have to re learn every everything weekly anyway. so I'm right at home. Rick

How to pedal around the kitchen How to pedal around the kitchen Very carefully, the breakfast bar will come up on me in a heart beat, but I figured out if I stop pedaling and put it into a power drift I can just miss the corner. First 27 times were a learning experience tho. My 21 yr old son...

Happy AVR Day to you from someone who just joined the AVR getters. Hope you have more than Many, many more Rick

Things do get better, slowly really slowly some times. I like the pretty colors..... but being a Child of the sixty's I figured the heart lung machine had just flushed up some of that old window pane magic. You may not get that if under 45 yr old. As for the truck, it scared the daylights out...

Howdy I'm now 40 days out from my A valve replacement. They used the St Jude Biocor on me. I've had my bumps like lots of the folks here. But what makes this a good place is you hear the good, bad and ugly (TOOTS) I'm not an expert on the reasons why they may or not may not do certain things...

Good afternoon folks. Haven't been around in a couple of days. Had a few days of bumps so I was laying low. But the Good news is Yesterday I came off the wound pump that has been draining the harvest-cath site. The tunnel caused by the harvest became 12cm long problem. Yesterday the home nurse...

Hi folks. Well I had the 30 day check up with Dr. Binns at Asheville Heart. I looked so pityfull walking into the lobby with my walker. But was feeling pretty good. The zipper scar has healed great. He said everything sounded great inside too. He's been my Surgeon for 8 yrs and he was proud of...

Welcome to the Sunny Side, Walk when you can, It does get better every day.

Okay Had 30 day check up, everything is normal heart wise, still on the wound pump, prob for 2-3 more weeks. Doc set up another check-up for Feb 5th. Maybe then I'll be released from the surgeon back to Cardiologist. Tired from the 120 round trip. Riding in wife's Grand Cherokee is no where as...

Congrats Dale! Good words from you to the folks here. You could have made it without us........... Naaahhhhh The gang pulled you through! Have a better year each and every year. You deserve it. Rick

Good thoughts, vibes and prayers circling overhead grab as many as you need as often as you want.

My prayers are on the way! I'll meet you on the other side of the mountain. I'll be half way down. Bought some land there and will have Rick's Sundae Shoppe built and running by the time you get back on line. Stop in and I'll treat you to a Sundae or a Nanner Split. Good Luck Rick

I agree with above James. I went thru it with my first OHS, so I was more prepared this time. You heart was having to work overtime for so long with the bad valve, now with the bright, shiny new one, it's trying to find it's happy place. And it's a little harder for it cause we go thru the sit...

Lori, I get the burning also in a couple of locations. the two that bug me are, one just to the left top side high of the zipper scar the other is right over my knee cap above where they harvested a vein. I described them to several Docs and Nurses and the consensus was some nerve damage from...

Thanks, if you look at the photo on the right you can see the tube going up the leg into my shorts on my right leg. It did turn out to be a combo of the harvest and the cath site. Maybe two more weeks on the pump. The original tunnel was 9mm long and Anita, my home visitation nurse said it's...

Good Morning All. Just a quick check in. I go to Surgeon tomorrow for the 30 day eval. It's been a crazy 29 days. I've only been out of the hospital 17 days now. I still have the wound pump hooked up to my right leg from where they harvested the vein they used in the single bypass they did at...

Hang in there. I know you read all the bad stuff. But look at the good stuff too. Easy to say I know. For me I had Quint bypass in 03. At the time I had a major murmur the Docs wanted to correct but decided because of the time I was on the table and the emergency bypass. They waited. In 2007 I...

Hey there, I'll just relate some of my stuff to ya. Always ask your doc. I'm on Metoprolol 50mg right now. For the same thing as you. Over this past summer when it was hot my heart rate would get up there in the 120 and I'd get sick and dizzy. I was taking the Metoprolol morning and evening. 50...

Best Wishes and A big ole bunch of Positron Mental Waves and vibes are heading towards you right.............. NOW! I'll send them as long as you need them. Rick