this is the thread about Larry's scar http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?36417-My-scar-4-Months-8-Months-12-Months
Surgical scar after open heart surgery???
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Sevgi
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I had my aortic valve replaced through a 3 1/2 inch Heart Port which is what they call minimally invasive surgery at Duke. If anyone is considering having minimally invasive AVR and wants to see one type of scar, I posted a pic of my scar too.
http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?35181-Minimallly-Invasive-AVR
http://www.valvereplacement.org/forums/showthread.php?35181-Minimallly-Invasive-AVR
You can hardy see mine.
bluefields409
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I have enough hair on the chest I just do a comb over....a technique that I have perfected on my head..........
Snortsss...................in a ladylike manner of course
Mine was done 19 years ago - staples, wires, and whatever they used to close up the sternotomy. It's hard to see unless you intentionally look for it.
I took my daughter to a father-daughter dinner a month post-op, and other fathers noticed the rather red scar. This was a real conversation starter, because a handful of other fathers opened their shirts to show me theirs.
From reading about the new methods of closing, it doesn't sound like the scar is much of a deal at all. Unless your husband is a model, I don't think he should worry (plus, as others have said, growing hairs back over the incision help, and, I guess, so would a touch of makeup if he really wants to hide it). I haven't tried tanning my chest for some years, so I don't know if the scar shows as a white strip against a tanned chest.
I took my daughter to a father-daughter dinner a month post-op, and other fathers noticed the rather red scar. This was a real conversation starter, because a handful of other fathers opened their shirts to show me theirs.
From reading about the new methods of closing, it doesn't sound like the scar is much of a deal at all. Unless your husband is a model, I don't think he should worry (plus, as others have said, growing hairs back over the incision help, and, I guess, so would a touch of makeup if he really wants to hide it). I haven't tried tanning my chest for some years, so I don't know if the scar shows as a white strip against a tanned chest.
