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I'm really looking forward to my echo in 2 wks. My bp was difficult to control before, a bit easier now. My resting was always crazy low, and remains pretty much the same. The docs suggest it's just who I am. Immediately post-surgery the one thing I noticed was large kathumps of my heart that...

Thanks, you are very on your way. (Told ya its bark is worse than its bite... specially a few weeks down the road when the med-induced amnesia can fool you into thinking, "That wasn't so bad.") We lived in the East Coast for three different go-rounds over the decades, the most recent 2010-2013...

Two years in two week for me. Feel great. Echo will be 1 day shy of the 2-year mark. Cheers.

Two weeks away from two years and hiked UP to the Hollywood sign yesterday. From here... To here.. (That's the sign in the background.) Very easy/peasy. Turning 70 in a few months.

What part of France? If Paris, I'd say the best news is that you get to recover in one of the most walkable cities in the world. If somewhere else, well, you're in France!!! Truth is they don't know what they'll find until they get in there. Given your physical condition and seemingly positive...

Hi D333gs, I'm going on 2 years with my bovine, which was replaced when I was 67 and in good physical shape. Unbeknown to me our my surgeon, I had a unicuspid valve. The general rule, is that it takes 6 week for your valve to start settling in and scar tissue starts making it official part of...

Point of order here. 1. In an earlier post you said this obviously is a site for mechanical valves. I have been on this site for a very long time. My profile says 2016 but I started lurking here, and may even have had an earlier account, many many many years earlier, certainly when a mechanical...

Congrats on the progress. On that click, I had forgotten all about that. At some point it just stopped happening!

By all accounts, Chuck, he is considered world class. Or so says my cardiologist, who runs integrated medicine at Scripps, and speaks highly of him. Scripps was a pioneer in TAVR (notably, Dr. Teirstein)... a friend had his TAVR done by Stinis and coundn't speak more highly of him. It's kind of...

Hi Chuck, When I got my valve 2 years ago, at 67, my surgeon for some reason chose an older-type tissue valve. It was surprising since he was a lead investigator on one of the newest, most popular that seem to be used today. He felt this valve was the best for my procedure/situation. But he...

I was around 25 in the very late 1970s. Standard physical. Murmur, "nothing to worry about." At the time I was in an HMO in Minnesota. It kind of freaked me out to know something was wrong with my heart. I got a physical every year since I was a kid and nobody ever picked it up. This doctor...

Sorry to hear, Peej. I think we all have our "issues" post surgery. It's just that down the road they become a blur. Even today I get get a pain here/there in my chest if I lay the wrong way. Glad to hear you are checking with your doc. Also, I'd considered checking in with the Nurse Line at...

My surgery was done in Cleveland and I had a 9" incision. I was in the hospital for 8 days - two additional because of an infection in - of all places - my prostate. I left Cleveland on Day 10 and flew back to LAX, followed by a 2 hour drive to San Diego. I couldn't drive for 30 days. That was...

+1 what Chuck said. I'm 69. I had the same surgery Chuck had, except with a bio valve, in March 2020..and a CABG x1. I live in California and we are now in France on a river cruise - our first trip since pre-Covid (and post-Cleveland ;-) ) You're going to one of the top heart hospitals in the...

Peej: Here's my prediction: Much of those first few days will become a blur. What I went thru with bowel issues post-surgery; lack of sleep; pain in my back...all of that dissipated as a memory. It's the kind of stuff we live through and do in the moment, but I think the drugs help us remember...

OK, Peej, it's showtime. Your head is in the right place. Keep your sense of humor. Hit the red button to keep ahead of the pain. Be a squeaky wheel if you need to be. Follow the walking/breathing protocol. Repeat. The first few days will be, well, probably not as bad as you are expecting but...

Dea! And thanks for dredging up that study!

Peej! You're very welcome and thank you very much.

Crooser, they specifically told us to book 10 days and expect the unexpected. The goal was 5-6 days in the hospital (this was just pre-Covid). I had a mild complication which caused me to say 8 days. And THEN the final stitches out / all-clear on Day 10. We left Cleveland Day 11.

And to think I knew everything! Proof Chuck knows more. I did not know that. Since I had a Bentall procedure, I hope you are right!!! ;-) Also, Peej - you do NOT need a recliner. Trust me on this. My surgeon's nurse at CC was the one who convinced me it would be a waste. I had wondered whether...