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Fantastic news! Welcome to the other side. Hope things settle and heal soon and you can go home. One day at a time. Slowly but surely, things should improve. All the best to you for the days ahead. Here's a Sunday flower for you:

Brilliant news and great to see your posting already! Take it steady, with incremental steps in the days ahead and things should get easier. All the best for your recovery.

Brilliant to hear! 😎 Long may it continue. All the best for the years ahead. ☀️

So sorry to hear this, Lisa. Sending condolences to you and your family. Hoping your journey home is swift and not too stressful.

All the best for surgery day and beyond! Sending good recovery thoughts your way.

All the best to you, Josh. And onwards to a good recovery. ☀️

Post-op warm greetings to you, Zara. Great to see you posting again. Sorry to hear about your current symptoms. Early days still in your recovery, but good news you’re recovering okay. Time is the healer, and each person's recovery experience is unique. But things should improve considerably...

Great to have you here! Sorry to hear about the dissection but good news indeed you were sorted with a valve replacement. Continuing good health to you. *Just to say, you may wish to introduce yourself and your heart story in a separate 'New Member Introductions' post, so your intro isn't...

My GP has recently prescribed 0.5mg (white) tablets to add to my already prescribed, 1mg, 3mg and 5mg.

Greetings Neil and welcome! Glad things are going well with you and your valve and you're back riding again. Great stuff. I had my bicuspid aortic valve replaced with an Inspiris Resilia bovine in August 2019. I’d just gone 61. I was on a single aspirin post-op until recently. Was fortunate...

Still on the INR roller coaster. Clinic venous blood draw today (Tuesday): INR 1.7 A drop from last Thursday’s INR 2 So out of my 2 - 3 target range again. New dosage schedule given: 10mg tonight 9mg Wednesday 8mg Thursday 8mg Friday 9mg Saturday 9mg Sunday 8mg Monday Clinic INR test...

Fantastic to hear things worked out well! Sounds like an amazing team. Sending good healing thoughts your way and a big best for the recovery days ahead. 🕊️

I’m thinking that might be the case (unless I'm misreading it 🤔... always a possibility. Ha)! Seems like positive news. Also, I read that “High prosthetic valve gradient does not always mean prosthetic dysfunction….”. Am interested to know the cause of the “…mild generalised hypo attenuated...

I finally got sent a copy of my Cardiac CT results recently sent to my GP: ... This showed good mobility of his bioprosthetic aortic valve leaflets with only mild generalised hypo attenuated thickening (HALT), no evidence of thrombus, mild LAD disease. These findings are overall reassuring...

All this positive feedback makes my blood flow smoothly! 😊

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Thanks Andy! That's reassuring and good to know. I suspected my half-a-brain state had completely misheard him. I got 6 "freebie" strips with the CoaguChek package. Am down to the last two already. Haha. If at first you don't succeed... 😅 👍🏻

Clinic venous blood draw today (Thursday): INR 2 No movement from last Monday's INR 2 New dosage schedule given: 8mg tonight 8mg Friday 9mg Saturday 9mg Sunday 8mg Monday Clinic INR test Tuesday My CoaguChek INRange arrived yesterday. In my impatience, I tested last night (I initially ruined...

Greetings Jase Just catching up on your posts. Team Valve Replacement is always on call. Your updates will be most welcome when you're ready to post. Sending good thoughts and calm winds your way for the days ahead.

Finally, back in range... just. Dalteparin injections stopped. Clinic blood draw today (Monday): INR 2 An increase from last Friday's 1.7 New dosage schedule given: 8mg tonight 8mg Tuesday 8mg Wednesday Clinic INR test Thursday Clinic now suggesting we keep an even dose going forward and...