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@Estrazz There are numerous threads here about recovery, a few long ones. I posted some details about my experience 2.5 years ago. the short is, if you are in decent health and follow their directions you will be fine. I am assuming based on the age you are inferring you are going mechanical...

I had gallbladder removed in 2009 and that recovery was more annoying. But in the end every surgery has risk, as does taking warfarin. One has to weigh the risks associated with each. To me mechanical valves had a long well documented history with the risks. Tissue is still and evolving and...

Here are 6 months and 18 months. I had a full crack and mechanical and aortic graft. If you take care of your chest during the first 12 weeks it is like nothing happened. I was told to baby it for 6 weeks, no driving even. I made sure not do anything that would put pressure on my check. At the...

This issue alone has made me lose faith in the FDA. And I thought it was a 1000 and I thought that was too small, if it was 100 then that is a joke.

I leverage multiple sources and from what I see the On-X research was a very limited statistical base. I will go with the 30+ years of mechanical valve data where 2.5-3.0 is the lowest risk, f the On-X provides a better design to help drive the events down more then great, but with swing of...

Sorry your recovery was so bad. Where did you have surgery? My recovery was actually pretty much a pleasant surprise as I was expecting much worse. My hospital experience was very good, but I flew to Cleveland Clinic as I was not going to risk this to the local hospitals in GA, none of them get...

I think once those people that want can get their booster (3rd) shot for them life can be pretty much normal At that point (until a vaccine avoiding variant is discovered) the risk of anything serious is probably same as flu or anything else. That said wife and I are fans of masks since it helps...

Glad you are better. I now know 2 vaccinated people that got Covid recently. Both were bed ridden for a couple of days and one took about a week to get better the other closer to 2 weeks and still has bouts of being exhausted. One got it right after her kids went back to school (we are in...

I don't even need to read it to know it is BS from the sensational title. The vaccine was not meant to totally eradicate Covid. It was meant to minimize it's impact. The small (and admittedly growing) breakthrough cases are mildly symptomatic if at all. Almost all the serious breakthrough cases...

As I mentioned, if you want to risk your life doing stupid things as long as “you do not risk someone else’s” I am fine, go kill yourself. When you are negligent and put the rest of us at risk then yup, I throw compassion out the window, hope they get it and die before they can spread it to the...

Wow pretty nasty I would say. I don't wish anyone dead, but support their decision to do stupid things that risk only their own lives. And btw, that is the attitude of many extreme conservatives, dems may not like your views, but we typically don't wish death on others. The right wing wants to...

Very hit and miss here. I am in GA we are still in denial.

I am surprised that nursing homes are not mandating vaccinated employees or residents. They are the most at risk population. There was a story on the news yesterday about a nursing home that did that and at furs lost something like a dozen employees, but most have come back. As more companies...

I am actually surprised how many vaccinated people have relaxed and taken off their masks with the rise in break through Delta cases. I guess they feel the odds of hospitalization or deaths is so small. Just amazes me how if everyone would have properly masked up last April we probably would...

What shortened the cycle was the huge effort put in to collect and churn through data from various sources. This stuff is usually along (needlessly) drawn out process that "Operation Warp Speed" 😭 help to cut through the normal BS. It just shows what can happen when areas come together with a...

Dr. Internets is only a source of info and sometimes not very good info. Find a well regarded Cardiologist even if not local. Cleveland Clinic will look over your records for free and make a recommendation and tell you if they can help. I (and others) swear by them. Get more than 1 recommendation.

I believe because you penalize people like farmers in favor of city dwellers. I agree the current system has a small population dictating for the majority. But if you fix gerrymandering and impose term limits I think the problem goes away. I think lack of term limits causing people to become...

‘Agreed, but I understand the Senate, giving small population states equal representation, that just needs to move to super majority to fix it.

Agreed, the folks dismantling democracy are scary and far too many "patriots" are just following along in the name of staying power. If this does not change for the better in the next few years I fear our democracy slowly fades and could happen in my remaining life span(20-25 years left at...

I would like to see the questions about the stolen election. I can see that some states and localities flirted the laws and rules in an extreme situation and in theory some might consider that may have influenced the results, and in their mind was stolen. Also as we have seen those that answer...