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Congratulations! Thank you for sharing your story.

Great to have you (you know what I mean :)), and as others have mentioned, this is the place to do lots of learning and get support. I was your age when my work was done, 17 years ago now, and there are a range of other young adult patients on here as well, should you ever need to message...

Congratulations, Dick. Thank you for leading the way.

Congratulations! Great update

Congratulations and many more to you!

Just wanted to say welcome SLB. I was about the same age at my procedure and work through many of the same questions. To add another vote to @pellicle's advice about the chest strap, I've found great utility there, mostly to set a cap on my HR during workouts so I can be smarter. Also...

Congratulations and here's to many more!

Great to have you here, Cormac. Glad all is trending so well and that you're on the other side of so much now. Indeed, documenting the details will serve some future site member so fair play for sharing all that. I don't want to comment too much and be out of place in response to your...

Feliz compleanos to your valve!

Congratulations and happy birthday to all the parts of you.

@PAN, all the best with rehab. I found that super fruitful in terms of regaining confidence and understanding what progress would look like. Onward and upward, as @pellicle says. Here's to loads of progress!

I'm laughing at the National Geographic image of the gorilla chewing with the sort-of sideways operating jaw to make mush out of leaves 🤣. That is a great image.

Yeah, adept question, for sure. As you note, there really only seems to be a rule of thumb here, and there is substantial disagreement about what counts as an issue. Interestingly, I've found some research showing the valve measurement is often largely correlated to a person's size, too, so it's...

Just wanted to add another welcome, @Dunwanted. As you can see, you're in the right place with lots of supportive people.

Key part of every meal! And cheering for Michigan State is fun as well! Though I do also want to say that because of everyone here, including many of you in this thread specifically, I have basically zero concern about ever having to take warfarin, should that day come, so hats off for the...

Yeah, everything is biological, apart from the Dacron wraps. I did just have a CT scan, and I'm not thrilled about my ascending aortic growing to 4.1. That's been a steady march in annual scans and might be a function of just getting older, but it's definitely causing big emotions this week.

Happy valversary! Here's to many more.

15 years ago today, I was getting out of the hospital post-surgery and clutching that chest pillow like it was my job! Hard to believe it's been that long, and I've largely been able to do as I like since so I'm grateful for the success. A recent check-up may be pointing that some changes are...

Happy valversary. Here's to many more.