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Thank you all for your insights and kind words. They are much appreciated. There has been much doctoring. At GP office both Fri (returning to local care) and Saturday (chest tube site appeared infected, but was granulation tissue that began oozing). Today I spent another day in ER because I had...

Thank you, **** and Ryan. t took me a half hour to get this last one stopped.

Thanks so much, everyone. You are all very generous with sharing your experiences and good information. I appreciated hearing Steve's pacemaker journey, and knowing others have had severe pain in their shoulders--though I wish none of us did. And of course all your well wishes. My new power...

I'm very new to taking warfarin. Haven't had a nosebleed in many years. Now two of them in the last few days. Set off by sneezing the first time, coughing the second. Does this happen to anyone else?

I have coughed like a maniac (dry) and I have thought all along it's from Metoprolol.

I'm two weeks out from aortic valve and root replacement with aneurysm repair. As has been said, it's more complex, and should you need surgery again, that one will be more complex. I don't think recovery differs.

Hi, heart friends! Thanks for all your very kind words. Whew, what a week. First the afib wouldn't come under control. Then I had some sort of episode that the neurology department had to be sure wasn't a stroke. Two ambulance rides, one day after the next and long stints in CC ER and...

Thank you all heartily. I will respond more thoroughly soon. Back in ER for the second time in two days.

Hi All, I'm grateful to be on the other side. Have steered through a few bumps and I'm still in Cleveland as they work to help me resolve things. With Cleveland Clinic, you meet your surgeon the day before your operation. That day, the surgeon worked on a man's fifth open heart surgery and...

Thanks, you guys!! Steve, I love that about leaving the light on. :) Pre-op appointments and meet anesthesiologist and surgeon tomorrow. Been a bit of a rough ride so far. Ready for clear communication, good bedside manner, and for them to be watchful over my stomach issues, as well as the...

Everybody, each of you--thanks for the well wishes, prayers and encouragement! Pellicle, I wish you all the best with your personal journey, the turns you are making. Relocating is such a major undertaking. Long travel day, due to two hour delay, but was promptly delivered to my hotel upon...

Finally... I fly to Cleveland this Sunday. It has been a long, complicated and challenging journey, getting to this point. Appointments run Monday through Wednesday and surgery is expected this coming Thursday, Sept. 29. to fix the aortic aneurysm and replace my dilated aortic root and...

When I took a copy of the web page from Valley Heart and Vascular to my old cardiologist and my aneurysm had just increased in size, he glanced at it and said that he was sure there are others who disagree with that research. But all three surgeons I consulted agreed with this view and stated...

HopefulHeart, I had posted these links to this article for you on your other thread a few days ago. :) I don't know whether you had a chance to review the web pages. I'm re-linking and also copying a relevant couple of paragraphs...

Nocturne, I hear you. All I could find from 2016 was what looked like a small study about hemodynamic testing of some sort (the valve has not advanced to clinicalt trials yet), and only the abstract was available without paying. The website of the Swiss company developing it still has all 2014...

Congratulations on another year. Yes, you do want to keep your BP controlled with the aneurysm.

DachsieMom is right, that there may be someone local you'd feel very comfortable with, if you don't want to travel. If you decide on Cleveland, they have four hotels on the hospital campus. Half of their cardiac surgery patients are from out of state, so they deal with patients long distance...

It is heartening that they keep expanding the technologies for valves. I wish this one was further along, but still in pre-clinical trials, I believe. Under development 30+ years, if I understand correctly. http://www.triflomedical.com/basic-discoveries

http://valleyheartandvascular.com/Thoracic-Aneurysm-Program/Calculate-Your-Relative-Aortic-Size.aspx http://valleyheartandvascular.com/Thoracic-Aneurysm-Program/Risk-Stratification.aspx HopefulHeart, you may find the above two links useful. It looks like with your physical attributes, if your...

Hi all. After my cath, I had a week's prohibition on exercise. Still not allowed to do fast walking for another week, and by then surgery will be looming. Not going to be a lot of exercise till I start rebuilding after the op, I guess. Well, actually hoping I can do some longish slow walks...