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You must be quite lean, no adipose layer between the artery and skin. I'm too fat to see anything going on inside, but I can sense it at anytime. I regularly take my pulse merely by listening.

25 1/2 years, it's still there. But I'm a hairy guy so until I went gray it was almost entirely hidden.

Next up was the 1 hour swim. US Masters Swimming has an annual postal event where you swim for one hour, record the distance, and mail it in. Last Friday, Feb 10, I got 2275 yards (1.3 miles) in an hour. With a lap watch there's no need to keep count of time or distance, just check the logs when...

I was 43 and had been a runner a long time. I walked almost every day from release to 6 weeks. I started to run at 6 weeks, didn't make it far the first time, maybe 80-100 yds, but alternated run/walk for 3 miles. It took 6 more weeks to run a full mile non-stop. At 5 months I ran a 5K. At 10...

As I mentioned last year, I was forced by arthritis to discontinue running after 40 years, but that didn't stop me, only slowed me down a bit. I walk now, 3-4 miles every other day. Not a leisurely stroll either, 16-17 minutes per mile. Walked a 5K last week at 15:50 avg pace. I've continued...

Dress more warmly above the waist, add a layer or two. Cold constricts all the surface and near surface blood vessels making the heart pump more forcefully, not only faster. Playing in the snow doesn't count because you aren't raising the HR much. Shoveling warms up all the upper body muscles...

Like epstns, I thought I could keep running forever, but arthritis eventually got the better of me. I only made it to age 68 running regularly, which was 25 years and perhaps 25,000 miles after AVR. Now I walk. I can still walk the same distance I used to run, just cannot impact. And I swim 3-4...

Right, the purpose of a beta blocker is to limit the high heart rate. I ran a 22 minute 5K the year before AVR and 33 minutes in the same race the year after. I never got back to the low 20s, but did 27 after 2-3 years. Then I started getting old, that's another story.

You know, since ours are only about a month apart, I'll bet the serial nos. are pretty close. Can you still find yours? Mine is 310676, model 31A-101. The 31 refers to the size in millimeters.

follow up article in open water swim news http://dailynews.openwaterswimming.com/2016/08/growing-sport-with-betsy-owens-memorial.html

http://dailynews.openwaterswimming.com/2016/08/jack-berkery-pioneering-his-way-to-open.html

I wrote a quarter century update for my local road runner's club. Find it here: http://www.hmrrc.com/

Check out the surgical anniversaries forum for my latest update.

My aortic valve replacement anniversary is 25 years on Tuesday, July 26th. I don't often celebrate the occasion any longer and this time I'm just going out to lunch with my wife and daughters. Later in the day, I have a date with 100 triathletes for a swim training session. I joined a Tri Club...

Not so far, but I've only had this valve for 25 years. I have run to max HR so many times I can't count. Interval training, racing from 800 meters to half-marathon, over 350 races and 25,000 miles since AVR.

First AVR was mechanical. In 1990 at 17/18 years old - tissue wasn't even presented as an option. Even if I had been offered tissue, I don't think the prospect of being opened up every ten years for the next 50 - 70 years would have been all that appealing. The native valve was BAV. The 2nd...

I have always had the migraine auras, but never the headaches. I can recall the auras when I was young and didn't know what they were. I've had them on and off this past month, and then sometimes I've gone months or years without them at all. There is no explanation for what triggers them.

I have been served very well for 24 years by my St Jude's device. It may have less flexibility than modern designs but I can't complain. It has finished over 330 races.

Valve Anniversary #24. St Jude's aortic valve replacement July 26, 1991 at age 43. I have lived and loved a great deal since then. We had been married 22 years, now It's coming up on 46. My 4 kids were between 6 & 16, now 30-40. We've seen them all finish college, 3 of them to doctorates and...

The most surprising part about it was the way it was presented like, this is inspiring for 85, but valves ain't no big deal any more. I've been writing and proselytizing about it here for a long time and there are several valvers in the Albany area who run and more. Stories like this come out of...