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I don’t think you rambled, but I am concerned about your proposal to run up stairs once a week and see how long it takes your pulse to recover. I don’t think that’s a good method of self diagnosing. I would trust your surgeon to make the call after the echo in October.

Thanks @honeybunny and @pellicle. I think we sometimes forget that valve replacement and the ability to stop a heart while operating is relatively new. Sixty years ago, needing a valve replaced might very well have been a death sentence.

Best wishes for many more.

That’s a hoot! Glad it turned out alright for both you and your driver!

I hope all goes well. We’re headed to Columbia on Friday. We’re apt to pass you on I-70!

I have the same valve, implanted on June 5, 2005. You have a month’s seniority on me!😊

Now, now! Speaking for myself . . . I will be happy to see you parading around in any type of attire, sporting any stage of surgical incision, post-op. Forget the acid indigestion; a sudden welling of relief and deep affection is more like it.

New underwear for rehab? As Ross use to say, this post is useless without pictures!!!🤣You could be our September valve replacement pin-up, Superbob!

No problem!😊👍🏻👍🏻

First off, happy birthday! Secondly, I went back and read many of your earlier threads after seeing that you are in Missouri and have had to tolerate a complete idiot for a doctor (I’m also in Missouri so I know how that can go. We grow ‘em big!) Finally, I understand the fear about your aorta...

Thanks for posting, Honeybunny. It does sound promising. When I had my aortic valve replaced in 2005 with a bovine valve, I did it with the understanding that I would face another valve replacement in the future. I was relatively young and the surgeon asked specifically if I was prepared for...

You did say that her TAVR lasted four years in your previous post. Was it done in a Canadian hospital?

Yes, that was my thought too but I wanted clarification from jlcsn2015 since the time frame was rather vague.

I looked at member @coryp’s posts to make sure I correctly remembered that he had a bicuspid valve. He did/does and was hoping to undergo TAVR in 2015-16. The surgeon he consulted at Cedars-Sinai apparently made no mention of his BAV ruling the procedure out. The concern was that he was...

Can you help us figure when that “very nice lady” have her TAVR? You say that you met her before your replacement four years ago and she had her TAVR four years before that. Is it safe to say it could be no earlier than 2011 and might have been 2010?

Good luck and best wishes.

You’re very welcome, OME. I only wish that my update were more positive. I hoped that he might return to VR after the change of ownership and the recent upgrade to the system, but his attention is now focused on cancer rather than valve disease. He is literally engaged in a fight for his life.

Tobagotwo underwent TAVR in late May. His porcine valve was replaced with an Edwards after radiation treatment destroyed it. In his situation, the TAVR allows his heart to function normally again while he battles cancer. His initial preference was open heart replacement, but the doctors...

The statement says that intervention with TAVR is as successful as intervention with Open Heart surgery. I believe that defines successful.

It was a very enjoyable read (sorry, that might sound like I’m thanking you for providing entertainment value!) I was comparing it to my own almost 15 years ago, but it seems that they had me up and moving sooner. I attribute the difference to our country’s different medical systems but I may be...