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Hope your heart rate has stabilized and settled downwards. Please keep us posted and all the best.

Great news, welcome to the other side :-) And also good to hear how great you're feeling, how manageable was your pain, and how pleased you were with the overall procedure. St Paul rocks. Josh just had his procedure there just a couple of weeks ago with similar experience. Keep us posted of...

Great to hear back from you. Good to see that you're on the other side and doing well through initial phases of recovery. There's lots to learn from everyone's situation, and certainly from you too. The confidence, positivity and resolve you had approaching or pursuing the surgery was great to...

You must've been on the other side by now, and started initial phases of recovery in ICU. All the very best. Keep us posted.

Happy that you made it to the other side and doing well in your recovery, with a brand new valve :-)

Very happy to see your good experience and great recovery path, Josh :-) Wish you a continued awesome rest of the recovery.

I’m not sure if anyone yet answered your question #1, but your chances of having a valve replacement surgery in the next year based on your results is negligible: “aortic annulus?) is dilated to 42mm, while it should ideally be under 38mm. Furthermore, there's some regurgitation going on, the...

Love it :) Glad to hear back from both of you now, and that you're on the other side, recovering and trying to go back to your nest (and life). Medical science is amazing.

Love it :) Congratulations. You've done great already, and the recovery will be great as well. Will hear more from you later.

Yes, I agree. It's helpful to have something else in mind very strongly like he had to have (in order to continue/extend his career) to maintain anxiety levels approaching the surgery. Then you think of brighter side more, and feel more motivated to get it behind. He did go thru some level of...

Hope both of you had a great surgery yesterday and now recovering really well :-)

Yes, very positive and strong willed guy. His sports background probably helped him. He did go thru some level of depression afterwards, having to let go of his renewed effort to dial back into NHL through his new gig with Washington Capitals. I think he worked with life coach to overcome that...

Yes, love this one :) Had heard before. Thanks for sharing.

Yes, sounds right. Then didn't he get a pacemaker recently too? One interesting thing about Arnold's case is that his aorta (root, ascending) didn't require fixing (at least based on public information available). And the guy did massive weight lifting for decades as we know. He's lucky in that...

I enjoyed 1+ hour "Open Heart" on Netflix. Yes, it was great to hear his story.

If your valve itself is doing fine, could the "up to 5cm" aortic root be managed and closely monitored for the time-being? About 10 years ago, they revised aorta to be 5.5cm for BAV patients (given dilation of tissue is associated) before aorta by itself is warranted for surgery. If your valve...

NY Rangers star goaltender Henrik Lundquist got Bentall procedure (it seems) a couple of years ago. His story is NOW on Netflix under "Open Heart". Great story to relate to - for emotions, motivation and preparedness - before and after the surgery. Here's an article as well...

All the very best to you too :-)

All the best Josh. You will soon be walking 20 blocks (let alone 2) and that too without getting out of breath. Your timing is also excellent weather wise - summer time in Beautiful British Columbia. Keep us posted.

Thank you. I decided to ask rather than to wonder (given someone had told me in the past). I agree surgeons and experts will be working on me and I will just be lying down, but doing what I can to make myself a good candidate for them :-) Thank you