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Lasker
This is to thank all of you who took the time to share your knowledge and experience when it was needed.
I am on the final countdown, and will enter the Westchester Medical Center tomorrow at 8:00a for a cath of the coronary arteries. The real stuff will take place the following morning, when my aortic valve is replaced, by either a Medtronics Mosaic porcine valve or a CE bovine pericardium valve.
Choosing a valve to live with and the attendant shortcomings have been a difficult exploration, primarily in discovering what is perceived as important to oneself. That's what accompanies the grace of choice.
My cardiac surgeon is Dr. Richard Moggio, and I will be followed also by Dr. Craig Munsen, cardiologist, who also is the one doing the cath.
I hope everyone has a fine holiday, and comes through the New Year in excellent shape. I trust that I'll be reporting my own experience sometime in early 2004.
In the meantime, I've asked my daughter, Johanna, if she'd post a note to all of you following my surgery.
Again, thank you so much for your support,
Lorraine
I am on the final countdown, and will enter the Westchester Medical Center tomorrow at 8:00a for a cath of the coronary arteries. The real stuff will take place the following morning, when my aortic valve is replaced, by either a Medtronics Mosaic porcine valve or a CE bovine pericardium valve.
Choosing a valve to live with and the attendant shortcomings have been a difficult exploration, primarily in discovering what is perceived as important to oneself. That's what accompanies the grace of choice.
My cardiac surgeon is Dr. Richard Moggio, and I will be followed also by Dr. Craig Munsen, cardiologist, who also is the one doing the cath.
I hope everyone has a fine holiday, and comes through the New Year in excellent shape. I trust that I'll be reporting my own experience sometime in early 2004.
In the meantime, I've asked my daughter, Johanna, if she'd post a note to all of you following my surgery.
Again, thank you so much for your support,
Lorraine
