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I was under the impression that even if you had a tissue valve, or even a repair, you had to be on coumadin (or equivalent anti coagulant therapy) for some time after the surgery.
Yesterday I went into our vet's office to talk to one of the women who works there & who also runs a Rhodesian Ridgeback Rescue about volunteering in her group.
We got to talking -- the Rhodesian Ridgeback lady's father, she told me, has had mitral valve replacement in the last year or so. He is 80 and got a bovine pericardial valve & is in great shape. But here's the thing that surprised me -- he says he was never on coumadin post-op. He was on anti-coagulant therapy in the hospital and that was that. She called him on the phone while I was there so I could talk to him. He sounds perfectly coherent and he is sure he wasn't on coumadin once he was out of the hospital.
As for the dogs: some point I'd like to adopt or at least foster one of these wonderful big dogs -- not any time soon, obviously, they are BIG doggies, a female is easily 70 lbs, and males can run up to 90-100 -- I can just see me trying to walk one of them with a healing sternum. So it's very much something in the future.
Yesterday I went into our vet's office to talk to one of the women who works there & who also runs a Rhodesian Ridgeback Rescue about volunteering in her group.
We got to talking -- the Rhodesian Ridgeback lady's father, she told me, has had mitral valve replacement in the last year or so. He is 80 and got a bovine pericardial valve & is in great shape. But here's the thing that surprised me -- he says he was never on coumadin post-op. He was on anti-coagulant therapy in the hospital and that was that. She called him on the phone while I was there so I could talk to him. He sounds perfectly coherent and he is sure he wasn't on coumadin once he was out of the hospital.
As for the dogs: some point I'd like to adopt or at least foster one of these wonderful big dogs -- not any time soon, obviously, they are BIG doggies, a female is easily 70 lbs, and males can run up to 90-100 -- I can just see me trying to walk one of them with a healing sternum. So it's very much something in the future.