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For those in the waiting room: a brief summary of my days in the hospital! In the last 14 years I have been on Anticoagulation Therapy (Coumadin, Warfarin, Jantoven), there are only 2 things that I have not been able to do and those are Stopping daily medication and stopping regular testing...

which valve??????? This valve choice topic is a very sensitive topic for people who are post-op and already have one or the other inside their chests. Mechanical valvers AND tissue valvers want to come up with every reason to justify that what they have inside of them is the best thing. I can...

Trouble with levels - exercise theory This topic is one of the main reasons I created valvereplacement.org. I have been home testing for about 12 years now and it has become so much a part of my life that I never really think about it much anymore. Every person is different and the only real...

My Medtronic OpenPivot Aortic Valve Does Not Tick Most people do not hear their own valves tick after the first few days. I heard mine tick when I took my first bath after returning home (about day 7 I believe) and have not heard it since. That was 14 years ago. My family hears it all the...

Thus thread is reserved for expressing our memories and appreciations to members who spent time with buy have moved past us to a better place..

Only you guys an understand this I can understand being on a vent longer hten necessary because they were waiting for a doctor to be there to extubate you. But making that experience only happen because they wanted to "test drive" an new ventilator? That there is a crock of crapola! Doesn't...

I have moved this thread to Small Talk as it really had nothing to do with the HeartTalk thread it was in. Lets leave Political discussions to political forums please.

Phil, While I am happy that this forum has at least caused you to be curious about your need for anticoagulants - This forum is not the place for you to find these kinds of answers. You need to contact any physician who will take your call immediately and get your question answered without...

The Facebook Connect Feature is now enabled.. I don't know fully how it works as of yet. But it at least links to your facebook account now when the button at the top of the site is pressed..

Oh the strenghts of a public forum. Thanks to tose who have contributed. Lets all remember that when a thread is started, the thread topic has been chosen by the poster. If someone wants to change the topic, then some can start their own thread. Overall a great conversation. They usually are...

Yes Indeed. Happy New Year to all of our wonderful members. Thanks everyone - y'all are quite awesome...

Thanks for the comments everyone. I have about 1.6 million of the old shirts and such with the old logo as well. I figured every 10-11 years or so, it's probably a good idea to modernize. The text and outline color was chosen for it's apparent designation out there as a professional medical...

What do y'all think of our new logo?

Y'all may notice that a few posts that were previously in this thread are no longer here. Someone mentioned this thread to me so I started reading it from the beginning. It seemed like a great constructive conversation. Then it went South. I simply time warped the thread back to the constructive...

HeartDoc, Thanks for all of your great advice here. Your experiences are definitely valuable to those with questions here.

ValveReplacement.org's Official Stance on usign ths site to gather material is simple. We want as many people in the world to knoe as much as possible about vavereplacement surgery, If information can be gleened from this foum, then for that purpose it would be allowed. Once someone posts a...

All, Ross doesn't currently participate in the site. I have asked him to return as an Honored Guest and enlighten us with wisdom from time to time. I hope he accepts my offer.

I for one can say that these forums are extremely complicated under the surface, and while the forum software writers do an excellent job making them easy to operate - it can sometimes have unintended consequences if one little thing is tweaked in the admin control panel.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ross is ministering the HVP forum as he sees fit. That is his right. If you have problems viviting - then just don't visit. It really doesn;t matter why.

This is true - Registered members only.