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Hey congrats on making it through!!! Mine got moved to Monday morning so I'll be joining the club soon. Wishing you a speedy and smooth recovery <33

Seems like a good call :) I'm also getting my on-x this weekend. Best of luck to both of us.

I do have fresh towels and shirts/robes and slip-ons ready to go! I have Blue Cross Blue Shield as my insurance. I guess I'll see what their policy is about this stuff, but I'll definitely make sure to clarify the post-discharge plan while I'm in the hospital, thank you for the advice everyone...

Hey, good luck to you as well! <3

Thank you so much for the kind words and advice everyone, really can't tell you how much I appreciate it and how much it helps <3 About the recliner, I don't really have room in my apartment for one unfortunately. I got a set of memory foam wedge pillows so I can prop myself up in bed in a...

Hey everyone! Hope you're all doing well. My surgery is scheduled a week from today (May 3rd) :) I'm a bit anxious of course, but overall I'm feeling good about it. I'm looking forward to being on the other side and starting my recovery. My pre-op medical appointment went well—according to them...

Hey Pixelgrowth, welcome and thanks for being here! I’m in a similar boat. 28 and getting a mechanical valve + aortic root replacement soon (May 3rd), heart function and all that is normal but I figure there’s no point waiting. This forum is an awesome resource and hearing people’s stories and...

Glad everything has been going well during your recovery Ken!

So glad things are going okay Rebecca! Wishing you the best of luck in your recovery.

Glad things are going okay, good luck with the surgery!

Another update: I will be having my surgery on Friday, May 3rd! (Notably not a Monday or in April but whatever, I'll take what I can get.) I'm taking 4 weeks off from my job (I work from home and at a desk so the surgeon said I should be able to go back in 4 weeks), and the leave is protected...

Welcome back! Hope everything has/is going okay.

Chuck thank you so much! I agree on all points, super glad to be getting the 2-in-1 now. Also another piece of good news: they measured my EF at 63% on the echo a few weeks ago. Huge relief because about 9 months ago I got an echo that measured it at 54% and that was what kicked off the closer...

Another update! I met the surgeon yesterday, Dr. Bhamidipati at OHSU will be doing it. He was very personable and friendly and immediately could tell I had done my homework. I said I wanted a mechanical valve with a root replacement, so we looked at my scans together and he agreed and said we'd...

Hey folks, just a little update: I had some scans late Janaury and based on those I have a referral to cardiac surgery. My consult is February 22nd :) glad things are moving along quickly.

Hey Buckwheat, Best of luck with the surgery. I'm in a similar boat (28 and looking at a valve+aorta replacement soon). Hope you keep us updated :)

Thanks for keeping us updated. It's really normal to worry, and I don't think you are complain-y or whine-y at all. I'm glad there's a place on the internet where we can all talk to each other about this stuff. It seems to me like you're doing everything you can to make sure you get the problem...

I think it's very common in life, and especially in situations like this, to want answers and to know what's going to happen in the future. But, of course, no one can give you guarantees about that. And most people can't even give informed predictions about it, because everyone's circumstances...

Hey! Yeah absolutely, I'm usually the only person in their 20s or 30s when I go to the office heh. It's nice to talk to other people who have/are going through this in this part of their life! I'm glad to hear that, I think mechanical valves make a lot of sense for younger patients. Of course...

Very good point! Thank you. Updated my original post to clarify.