Heather Anne
Well-known member
Well, as I said above, I'd been feeling mostly asymptomatic except for fatigue and reduced exercise tolerance, but I take it all back! I just took my "critically stenotic" aortic valve out for a Fourth of July 5-mile hike in the Sierras, at 8000 feet elevation no less, and now I feel like crap!! Totally exhausted! Plus I was huffing like a steam engine the last, uphill, mile. It was as if my heart valve reached up through my windpipe, slapped me across the face, and said, "fix me, you idiot!!!"
Now August 5 can't get here soon enough!
The moral of the story is: those people who've posted on these boards that sometimes, your body will tell you when it's time, are 100% correct.
Now August 5 can't get here soon enough!
The moral of the story is: those people who've posted on these boards that sometimes, your body will tell you when it's time, are 100% correct.
