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Short update: My TVAR surgery was at 7:00 am on 9/24. It was successful. I feel great, but very tired. I will write up my TAVR story later when I’m less compromised. Thanks everyone for their support and well wishes. Now, I need sleep and need to figure out what to do with my second new...

Update: I’m scheduled to have TVAR on Tuesday, Sep 24. The CT scan did show a problem with the possibility of the left heart artery being obstructed with the leaflets of the old valve. To mitigate the risk, they will be implementing an artery protection procedure. It’s where they put a...

Thanks, Eve, for the understanding. Caregiving is difficult enough. Watching Alzheimer’s take my wife piece by piece makes it a real challenge. I wish you the best with your sister.

Last July I had my 8th anniversary of my artificial Trifecta Aorta heart valve. I was 72 and went with a tissue valve thinking I would get 12 - 20 years from it. I was wrong. As you may know this valve has been recalled. Two years ago my cardiologist said I had some deterioration of the...

Best of luck on your surgery and recovery. See you on the other side.

I gave up on trying to loose weight. A month later, I got down to 185, a goal I had for over a year. I just self-published my book that my daughter asked me to write. Now, I want to write a novel that I want to write. I'll check back in a year and let you now how its going.

Pellicle, I've read Peterson's book, 12 Rules.. what do you think of it?

Hi Folks, I haven't posted in a while and thought Thanksgiving time is as good as any to stop by and say 'hi'. Oh, I've been busy this crazy year. We shut down my wife's studio in March due to Covid. That forced her to downsize, so we built some walls making a smaller potter studio and we...

Eve, everyone reacts differently to medication. Giving that, I found 5Omg of metoprolol limited my hearts ability to respond to strenuous activity. After cutting back to 25 mg a day, I found I could work harder with less impact. It might be the drugs that is limiting your activity.

Four years on Trifecta tissue valve. Now 76 years old. Echo every year, 6 mo cardiologist checkup. Had a stent put in three months ago. Doing fine now.

How we spent our stimulus check: PT Lumber, screws, hinges $905.49 Fence $413.35 more screws, hinges, gate latch $63.19 Amish labor $270.00 Child labor $30.00 Excavator- 19 post holes dug $510.00 Truck gas to pick up goods $24.00 My time - 30 hours: planning, working (exercise)...

This is an humorous update to my earlier post about my heart symptoms. It took a number of days to get my test results to my cardiologist, and he said I should have a catheterization test. I had it done at Shadyside hospital in the Pittsburgh area. My kids were anxious about what was going...

Thanks, Superbob for starting this thread again. Duffy, I can imagine what you are going through now. Just know that I, and I suspect many others on this forum, are sending you good vibes and best wishes. We are here to listen, talk to, or do whatever we can to ease these hard times...

Our experience says it tools many days for the affect to ware off.

With our pottery studio closed, I can finally do some Shino glaze gas firing experiments that I always wanted to do. These pictures are the prep work. I’m doing the firing today - 10 hour process.

My wife had a BP spike due to medication. Her case was a cortisone shot. I would think you have correctly identified the cause.

I’m here, reading, lurking, being silent. Abe Lincoln had a saying that sticks with me: “It best to sit and remain silent, and be thought a fool, than stand up and speak, and remove all doubt.” So I sit and remain silent.

Hi, my Valve Replacement friends. It's been a while since I stopped by. It's nice to get caught up with everyone. I find the discussion of which valve we have interesting, not so much as to the specific valves, but rather the knowledge we have before surgery versus after surgery. For...

@rich01 - If your data is accurate and the variation does not match anything you are doing physically, then you need to present this data to your doctor. You did share how you monitored this data nor what activity you were doing at times of change. In the past, I monitored my BP and heart...

Nice to hear you are back home, SuperBob. I hope you and the wife have good healing times.