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Update#4(I Think) Update#4(I Think) Well, today he is talking in complete sentences. They gave him some water and larger ice chips, on the heart valve front all is good. If he passes the swallow test today, he will start on puree foods. But the side effects of the mild stroke on left side are...

Progress is still slow. It has been day 9 since surgery.I have been keeping is sprits up my telling my dad that what he is going through is normal based on the past experiences, I have read on this bb. Yesterday day was not enough fluid out up so more laxix. Also when he leaves hospital he...

Update Update Thanks everyone for their suggestions and prayers the support from others who have been there is overwhelming. Yesterday, they got him up and put him in a recliner chair for quite a while. His bp is stable, and he is progressing slowly. PT came in because there was some...

Had a VR on Wed, and got taken of venilator on Saturday. Saturday was a good day, then yesterday the removed the morphine drip and just giving regular pain meds. He was agitated, and his bp was all over the charts. Yesterday, they showed some fluid backing up on lungs they ordered a face mask...

Hello, I am so glad I found this site. My dad is having a VR on 4/14. His aV is less the 1cm because of calcifcation(sp?) He is not so worried about the surgery, put the pain associated with the recovery. Any words of encourgement I can pass along from people who have been there ? Any other...