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My sister-in-law is my tech and she manages to keep her poker face with me :-) She has worked with my cardiologist for about 25 years. You would think she could give me just a little hint, but nope, not one blip.

Andrew, best wishes to you tomorrow. My pattern resembled some of Al's remarks above. I'm a side sleeper and could only sleep for a couple of hours at a time. And it HURT to turn over, there was a lot of grunting on my part. I was best able to sleep with a lot of firm pillows tucked behind me...

Thanks for sharing. I'm a little misty eyed.

Ottawagal: yep, you're one of the chosen:wink2: My uncle had AVR in his mid-50s, my brother had the first one at age 3, mine was at age 31 (now 37), and my mom is still in the waiting room. I hope she stays there! She's 59, so here's hoping she never needs OHS.

There are at least 4 of us in my family...my mother, her brother, my brother (deceased), and myself. My docs have said it is hereditary and my family history seems to support the theory :-)

Robb, I hope for your sake it doesn't! That's a stinky thought. I never experienced that during recovery and I hope you don't. Robb - what I meant to say is that I didn't vomit after I got home (I've posted about this elsewhere). I spent the whole week in the hospital doing that. And I vomited...

I'll be thinking of you and your family tomorrow, Naomi. Best wishes for a successful surgery and quick recovery.

Thanks, Duffey. I was just wondering about them. I am going to try and not drift away this time around :-)

Bill & Brian had surgery around the same time I did in 2004. Have they wandered away like I did for a while...umm, a few years? I was deeply saddened to see that Bonnie passed away. Now those fellas are on my mind. Lisa

Best of luck to you, Michelle...fingers crossed.

It's great to hear you're already home. Don't worry about the fatigue, it will pass. In the meantime, take a lesson from our feline friends....cat nap, cat nap, cat nap :-) Best wishes, Lisa

Great thread....I was surprised: to hear someone tell me that he would remove the breathing tube if I would just wake up and open my eyes. that it was Sunday because the surgery was on Friday. that I was in the pediatric ward! I had the place to myself, for the most part. I had one neighbor...

Al, Thanks for the response and thanks for helping me since I first joined in 2003. My original user name was Lisa and I believe my profile was deleted because I didn't post for a while. I didn't have CTD when the valve was replaced. My BAV is congenital. I'm considered high risk (hence the need...

I hope it does, too. We're roughly the same age, you've got me by a year. It's amazing how wonderful I felt almost immediately after I received the homograft. I'm not sure how many more years I'm going to get out of this, but I hope as many as possible. The surgeon expected 7-15 yrs and I'm at...

Wow! 19 years! That's fantastic!

I had a TEE years and years before my surgery - they wanted to take a good look around

I forgot the mention in my reply that I have some leaking around some stitching and I'm wondering if that will contribute to needing AVR sooner than later!

Eddie, I had AVR with a homograft two months after my 31st birthday. I let them crack my chest wide open :-) I figured, hey, take all the room you need. Seriously, I lost my brother to this same disease in 1991, after his 4th OHS. He was 14. He was born with a mono-cuspid aortic valve. My...

Don't worry about it! I'm 6 1/2 yrs post op and I still get stares. Wear that zipper proudly - you earned it. It really bothered me the first few months, but now it doesn't really register with me. I think, why are they staring at me? Do I have spinach in my teeth? and then it hits me, oh it's...

Congratulations! How wonderful! I hope you continue to live a healthy, happy, and LONG life!! And may the rest of us be so lucky :-)