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Well, bad news to report, I guess. My surgery is getting re-scheduled as my wife tested positive for Covid yesterday and I have cold symptoms that aren't going away. I am negative for now. Waiting for a new date. I was told a few people have had to reset their January heart surgeries. Covid...

Superman, you speak the truth. At 37, I chose a homograft because I viewed that choice as providing me with the most normalcy at my young age. I hung around this site for a while after and offered assistance where I could. Then, I changed jobs and had a new baby daughter and I vanished until...

It seems more likely that the valve will go also. We shall see. I am preparing for it to go.

I am now 9 days away from my second surgery and I am two months shy of 58. I had a BAV with what one tech called "the biggest clump of calcification" she ever saw and that's what prompted me to have my first surgery in March 2001. I had a homograft which, if not for the ascending aneurysm, has...

That is me. I was active here before and after my first surgery in 2001, then life got in the way. I never saw this post until now.

This must have been around the time that my new daughter and new job consumed my time and I left this site for many years. And now I am back as I prepare for round two in a couple weeks. I hope everyone I communicated with before is still hanging around.

Thanks Pellicle. I am almost 58. What type of valve did you go with to replace the homograft?

Hello Everyone! I was a member of this forum many years ago. I had a BAV with calcification and underwent Homograft replacement at Duke March 2001. That surgery went great and I lived a pretty normal life with routine ultrasound checks until 3.5 years ago when they finally took a decent look...