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1.8 and 30. Ha! That's just a lil' bit. Enjoy, ride, and prosper. Listen to your body, and know that this disease progresses on its own. Exercises does not make it worse (there no research showing that), time and randomness do. My, unprofessional, opinion is to find a better cardiologist...

If it's a desk job and you can comfortably sit, stand, and walk at least a mile - I'd say 3 weeks post OP is pretty safe. Assuming you do not need to drive and someone can drive you in the back seat, till you are cleared to drive yourself.

How is that rash? Also, how are you feeling overall?

Avoid crazy head butts and you should be fine. I did not give up my sport before or after. Training as hard and intense as ever.

Good luck on Monday. Being in decent physical shape really helps out with accelerated recovery.

I knew I wanted a mechanical valve to minimize the re-surgery risk. Coumadin, did not seem like much of a risk when monitored. Liked the idea of On-X, but would have settled for ATS or St. Jude as well. Chose on-x in the end.

I told my doctors of plans of an accelerated recovery. In addition I kept them up to-date with my activities. Best advice I got was take a step back when you are pushing it, and you will know when you are pushing it. I agree, in several weeks everything will feel like a distant memory and...

This link has great loads of information on OHS Surgery, procedures, rues, etc. - http://www.mpoullis.com/thorcd/anat.htm I must have spent hours on there reading about things before and after my surgery. Mostly before ;) Vadim PS His other links: http://www.mpoullis.com/...

A bit more links on the Warfarin/Coumadin: This document has amounts of vitamin K in different foods: http://www.drgourmet.com/md/warfarincomprehensive.pdf Interactions with food: http://www.ihtc.org/patient/blood-disorders/clotting-disorders/coumadin-interactions-with-food/ Reversal Protocols...

Great video. We should add it to archives here of successes/improvements that OHS can bring to your life. BTW, Ski Girl looking great!

Wanted to add a thread here where I had a similar discussion - http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?39656-Heart-Lung-Machines&highlight=pumphead See my post here with more links to research on this: post #17 -...

Damn. Thats a crap-load of pushups. Great job!

I bookmarked this post for a comment later. ;) I can tell you first hand that recovery would be in large up to how hard you try. I have gained and rebuilt most of my muscle and strength by end of month 4. At 6 months post surgery I was competing again. There are not nearly enough studies on...

Kitty, this is a copy of what I replied on another thread to Sood. Let me know if you have any questions. http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?41566-made-it&p=538448#post538448 I will cut and paste several threads here of my week-by-week updates. My general approach was to...

Hey sood, We are going to get you lean, mean and strong. ;) I will cut and paste several threads here of my week-by-week updates. My general approach was to do more every single day than previous day. So, if I did .5 miles on one day, next day I would do .6 or .75 mile walk. Things like...

updated list with several more exercises

Wanted to update this thread with some numbers. My LV wall thickness is almost back to normal as expected even with all the heavy lifting I'm doing. Had an MRA several months back, will post numbers here for it. Many things have progressed in a positive direction after AVR and Aneurysm repair...

A very inspiring post. Great JOB!!!

Congrats on 4th and to many, many, many more.

cly_from_nj, thanks for not putting up a dead Ratatouille rat on here. http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=54138