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Yes, please keep us updated! Best wishes, I'm praying for you.

Absolutely gorgeous photos! That is fantastic that you are able to do such a climb!! I'm glad that you're back to "normal"!

That is fantastic!! One and done! Maybe it's good that you didn't have all these choices back then. Gold ring, indeed! Many more years to you.

I do have some grapefruit on special days, like Christmas morning. I really don't worry about it too much. I stay away from juice, it's not "worth the squeeze" as they say. And I never sugarcoat it!

Yes, I dose the diet as well! I've upped the dose a few times so that I can eat the veggies I want. I feel like I sort of know how much to eat at this point. So which mechanical did you get, and how long have you had it? I'm guessing St Jude?

@HokieHade To share my experience: I had a bicuspid aortic valve, w/ mid-ascending aortic aneurysm. Bicuspid valve was really two leaflets fused together, possibly due to a virus during childhood, who knows. I had an aortic valve/root replacement at age 35 in 2002, with a...

Just checking in to see how you're doing after your surgery last week. I hope things are going well. Please give us an update when you get home! Jennie

That's fabulous. Thanks for the info! I will be watching this, for sure.

@pellicle @Timmay @tom in MO So, hmm, maybe my memory is incorrect. Maybe he wanted a range of 1.5 to 2.0 for me?? I'll have to go back and look that up. I do know that the upper value was 2.0. But I absolutely agree about the INR range. I have read a lot of posts from @pellicle. I feel...

Just reading your post here, it's somewhat similar to what I went through. I'm 56. I had a bicuspid aortic valve (two cusps fused together), very severe regurgitation, with a moderate mid-ascending aortic aneurysm, 20 years ago, at age 35. They did some genetic evaluations (no gene testing...

@Protimenow Sorry to make you repeat yourself.... My beloved cardiologist retired last month, and I just saw my new one yesterday. He was curious about my mentioning that I was reading some study, blah blah. When I told him that I have an On-X (he seemed to have missed that in my records), I...

I didn't realize the cells here are unique. Huh. The idea of washing the cells out of the valve, leaving just the structure there, was, so I was told, that it would be less likely to "reject" the valve. I use that term loosely. Meaning, that it wouldn't view it as foreign. And it would...

I haven't received this yet. I just got my On-X in November last year. Is this being sent to all On-X recipients, or just at the 3-month mark? This isn't a new idea from them. I've been looking at their website for a few years now, seeing the possible reduction of INR being listed as a...

Very interesting. Yes, mine was cryo-preserved and washed of its donor cells. I was in a study for about a year, but that was canceled because the FDA pulled these valves (the aortic ones) off the market. People were getting dangerous fungal infections from donor tissue (for knees, backs...

Yes. It was an aortic valve from a human donor. Processed a bit, washed of its cells and cryopreserved.

I'm with you on that one! The TAVR is a good option for some folks, but for a re-op, not so sure. My first surgeon (20 years ago), my current surgeon, and current cardiologist ALL recommended the mechanical in my case. "We wouldn't have let you make the wrong decision". And my cardiologist...

I agree. Even if I can allegedly lower the INR a smidge, it's not like I feel the need to do so. Thank @Protimenow. I've read a lot of your posts in the past!

Hi Monica! I just wanted to say, I had a TEE about 20 years ago (other than during surgery), and then one in October. It was really uncomfortable back then, but much improved process this time. No need to be nervous! Welcome!

I didn't know that they had a study of eliquis vs. warfarin! I knew that it might be possible in the future to make the switch to eliquis, so this is interesting. I think it would make me a little nervous, though. I got the CryoLife SynerGraft aortic homograph (human donor, washed of its...