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As a measure of the total years from your first surgery, you are getting closer to me all the time- you young whippersnapper! :)

If you are interested in the exact figure, you can do an advanced search by going to the "options" section and selecting "joint date". With these parameters the search will order the member list in the order they joined.:smile2:

Actually Dick, your S-E valve is not one of the kind that Admundson had and that difference probably why you are doing so well today. The first valves to be implanted were really prototype valves that were rushed in to production because the need for them was a matter of life and death. One of...

Exactly- association does mean causation. No study exist which proves warfarin cause calcification, period! I have been on warfarin longer than anybody else that I know of and my bone scan came back normal.

Just a reminder Just a reminder For all those wishing to be included in the card to Dr. Starr, send me a PM and I will copy and paste it to a letter insert. The deadline is next Monday.:)

Congratulations, Dick!:) You have reached a milestone that few have attained and few will. We are all very jealous (myself included) for your good fortune.:D You are truly the lucky one. As to your record, there is no doubt that if you aren't the record holder, your certainly near first...

I'll second that! 70 views and nobody posts- nice, really nice.:angel:

Happy 10, Ben- keep the pol. stuff coming. It is great! Cort will be in your backyard this Sunday. Other Buckeyes ready to converge on BD. How about you and J+J?

Like my junior(:biggrin2:), Dick here states, it will be awhile before another drug replaces the miracle drug warfarin:angel: for valves. Maybe sooner for DVT or joint replacement, but not valves. Warfarin was discovered and has been in use for over seventy years with no serious competition...

We love Al! We love Al! Take it from someone who has more years on ACT then anyone, Al is the MAN!:thumbup:

My personal thoughts My personal thoughts Reading about Dr. Bjork above, it saddens me that people only know of him by the failed heart valve, rather then the volume of his life’s work that helped to save so many people. The vast majority of his valves, even the failed CC version, kept and is...

How does a thread change from from idiot to cat? How does a thread change from from idiot to cat? So strange!:confused: From one who actually was taking warfarin in the early years:;) Little was known about the algorithm of the coagulation cascade (the process by which normal...

Ditto, Ditto, I would just rather sit alone and honor my lost love one by thinking about them and remember how really neat they were. This way I never forget them. I still think of friends I lost in my childhood, my parents, the pts. who died in the early years when so many were lost. I even...

It always seems that way for the Young Family-the last several years it has been one crisis after another.:( You and your family have very strong character!

Ditto Ditto kismet, Did the nurse give you written orders, because you may have misunderstood the nurse. They more likey meant hold for one day only, then retest on Monday (meaning you would resume you normal dose today, Sunday and Monday, it is very important to be precise!) . While I...

10 months- that is a long time. I bet it feels like forever! Man, I am sorry.:(

Wow! Wow! I guess I'll be busy for the next couple of weeks! Thanks Lyn!:)

Wonderful picture, Lyn! I'm sure many generations of your family will treasure it.:)

Easy! Easy! Oh Mary, I can do it! Starting clockwise at 10:00 is husband of Lyn, around at 2:00 is an Orioles baseball player, at 4:00 is a young Justin and at 8:00 is Lyn. That was easy!;) :p :D

Absolutely Marty! Absolutely Marty! The founder of Mended Hearts was Chief of Cardiology at that hospital for most of the last half of the 20th century almost till his death in 1993. He also did the first heart valve replacement there. Who was that surgeon? Dr. Dwight E. Harken. Now can...