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Rocky, I am sorry to hear about your situation, and hope all is now well.

Congratulations on two years, and here is to many more!

Glad to hear you are on this side of the mountain, and I hope your recovery continues to go smoothly!

Chalk me up as one who seems to be as healthy or healthier than before surgery. The day I got home from my surgery, all three of my kids had a temperature and deep cough, and they had these for at least a week. We isolated ourselves from each other, and I never did catch it. Since that time...

You are in my thoughts as well, Alesia. I hope you have got the answers you were looking for!

Welcome to the club! It sounds like you already have the most important thing for waiting until surgery, which is a PLAN! Focus on the plan and know that your family is strong, and they will get through this with you. It is a temporary setback that you face to fix the issues life has...

Bruce, I would agree with Greg and go get it checked out. If it turns out to be something not as urgent as you are thinking, it will at least calm your mind and let you focus on other things.

Very good news, Addy!

Thanks, Duff. Do you know whether or not you will get a 'refill' on strips if you test more often than they instruct you to? Anyone else have experience with Alere?

Valdab, My experience is probably not the norm, but your numbers on the aneurysm prompted me to tell you my situation. I was born with BAV, and monitored every year to two years with an echocardiogram to follow my valve. I had known that surgery was a possibility in my lifetime, but we had...

So I have finally reached three months of anticoagulation monitoring, which was the required waiting period for my insurance company before allowing home testing. I called the doc to find out what I needed to do to get a machine and whatnot, and was put through to the INR clinic nurse. I was...

My scar is a mere 3 months old, and it is still quite visible. I started using mederma scar gel about 6 weeks ago, and since then it has started to turn a more natural skin tone, from the center out. It catches my eye when I glance at it quickly in the mirror, as the edges are red yet the...

At the time I found out I needed surgery, I thought it was coming too fast. Now looking back on it, I am glad that I only had a little less than a month from start to surgery, as I think I would have had a very hard time with the wait. For me, I also got a prescription of clonazepam before...

Good to see you again, David! Sounds like your experience has been very good to this point, and that is wonderful.

Norm, I re-read my post and realized that I wasn't conveying my thoughts well. Physically, I didn't feel anything different, so the not good feelings were not meant as physical. However, since I can hear my heart (mechanical valve) and knew it was doing something odd that sounded like a...

Norm, I had the same thing about three weeks out from surgery, if I recall correctly. For me it was after I had the three episodes of A-flutter, and they had put me on amioderone. During the onboarding phase of the amioderone, every time I would lay down for either a nap or at night, my heart...

Glad to see you, and welcome to the other side of the OR!

I will ask my doc about this at our next meeting. I would be more comfortable without it, and your experience reinforces that. Thanks!

Glad to hear everything is on track, Leaky. I hope everything stays positive for you!

I am taking a baby aspirin daily currently. This was something that I decided to start about two years ago (before I knew I might need surgery) for heart health, and after the surgery I asked my cardio about stopping this as I was now on warfarin. He (or his nurse, I can't remember) said it...