Since my surgery I have noticed that when I breathe fully in and make sure to fill the top of my lungs, I can feel and hear my heart and its beating much stronger than before, and the ticking gets much louder. It's almost as if I can feel it's being squished, and there is a slight discomfort or pain if I breathe in hard enough. The heart also feels harder, almost as if there's something there that wasn't there before (well, there is, both an inflexible valve and a flexible mitral valve ring, but am I imagining it?) I think it's getting better, so pretty soon I will probably forget all about it
Karl.
Karl.