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Thank you all for the great feedback! For those of you with titanium plates, does it bother you at all or have any long term I’ll effects? i also sent a PM to Tom in MO asking about those links to evaluations of surgeons and hospitals. Does anyone know of any other resources for making...

Thank you for all the feedback on this. It is very much appreciated! I am the husband in this post initiated by my wife. Today, we met with the cardiac surgeon that would be doing to the TAVR. While the option for either a TAVR or a Mechanical valve is still on the table, he was pushing for...

Is it true that with a Mechanical Valve, your chance of stroke increases by 3% each year?

Great Videos! I also posted videos on You Tube following my surgery. I posted at least one video every day up to the 7th day post surgery. Here is a link to the first video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xinNz9WhG0A

Man, I hope it's not Endocarditis (bacterial infection of the heart valve). I was hospitalized with this back in December and at first they thought it was a sinus infection and treated it with a Z-Pack which only helped for a couple days then the fever came back. Endocarditis is serious! It...

Great news! I had my valve replaced on the 28th too!

You'll do great Paulo! I am 36, and I never had a symptom either before the surgery!

To a speedie recovery!

The videos are cool! You're gonna do just fine.

Good luck, Jennifer and Jim!

Happy Birthday!

Good luck, Jake!

good update!

I edited the first post and added some more videos

Best wishes for a speedy recovery. I had my aortic valve replaced 1 week ago and I'm doing fine now at home. Check out my recovery videos: Day One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xinNz9WhG0A Day Two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpZPkIXkKP8 Day Three part one -...

I forgot to add that I agree with Al Capshaw. If you do need surgery or even just a highly qualified second opinion, you should definitely go to the Mayo Clinic. The skill of the surgeon will literally add or subtract many years from your life.

Hey Paul, I am a 36 year old male from Chicago. I was also born with a BAV that was diagnosed at age 8 and monitored every few years with routine Ecchocardiograms. At my last routine Eccho in September 2010 I was told the valve was getting worse and I would need surgery to replace it in the...

You'll do great, Chris! Half the reason I didn't look so great the first couple days was because of the Morphine. That stuff is no joke and makes it so hard to stay awake or concentrate. Once I was off the morphine I felt much more like a human being. I'm going to post some more videos now.

Thanks, Sweetmarie. Anyone can do it. The first day of the surgery is kind of rough but I really don't remember a whole lot from that day. They had me on Morphine which knocks you out and makes you forget. The second day was also challenging because I just felt really weak but at no time did...

Allison - what kind of hospitals do they have there down under??? Jeff - Vancouver just had their best chance at winning the cup, but considering I woke-up and seem to be doing pretty good, they don't stand a chance. Nashville in 6. Vigneault gets fired. Bobby Lu cries his way out of the...