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saw our gp today, he took my blood pressure (120 over 80 ) and pulse ( 76 pm ) and declared everything perfect!
he decided to pull out a stethescope and listen to my heart and said "if i did not know you had a mechanical valve, i might not realise that; your valve is so quiet, i can hardly hear it!
i already knew he had 5 other patients with mechanical valves, he said if any of them were sitting anywhere in his surgery, he would hear their valves clattering away! he said they make a terrible noise!
we talked for a short while about how i was the first person ever at the hospital to have an on-x valve and how i insisted on it etc. i said that quiet did not necessarily mean perfection; the gp's reply was interesting, "the fact your valve is so silent suggests its engineering is better and that it is operating better.
actually, the gp said he knew very little about mechanical heart valves, but his unbaiased assessment reinforces my opinion that i made the correct choice in choosing the on-x valve, even though i had the surgeon bellowing in my ear that it was the wrong decision!
ha, the gp said that heart surgeons are all prima donna's! and that i had made it easier for the next person who chooses the on-x valve
but the funny thing is i have been thinking my mitral valve is thunderous! i can hear it in bed and in quiet situations, i pity people with a noisey ( st judes ) valve.
news flash - one year ago on 03-03-2008, i had my operation. this sunday i am going back to the same bar for a repeat of the beer and food i had on the way to the hospital. 2.oo pm on sunday in vulcan lane in auckland at the "occidental". any valve replacement.com members get "shouted" to a free lunch; see you there! ( i reckon i am bloody lucky i am in auckland and not usa or canada! )
saw our gp today, he took my blood pressure (120 over 80 ) and pulse ( 76 pm ) and declared everything perfect!
he decided to pull out a stethescope and listen to my heart and said "if i did not know you had a mechanical valve, i might not realise that; your valve is so quiet, i can hardly hear it!
i already knew he had 5 other patients with mechanical valves, he said if any of them were sitting anywhere in his surgery, he would hear their valves clattering away! he said they make a terrible noise!
we talked for a short while about how i was the first person ever at the hospital to have an on-x valve and how i insisted on it etc. i said that quiet did not necessarily mean perfection; the gp's reply was interesting, "the fact your valve is so silent suggests its engineering is better and that it is operating better.
actually, the gp said he knew very little about mechanical heart valves, but his unbaiased assessment reinforces my opinion that i made the correct choice in choosing the on-x valve, even though i had the surgeon bellowing in my ear that it was the wrong decision!
ha, the gp said that heart surgeons are all prima donna's! and that i had made it easier for the next person who chooses the on-x valve
but the funny thing is i have been thinking my mitral valve is thunderous! i can hear it in bed and in quiet situations, i pity people with a noisey ( st judes ) valve.
news flash - one year ago on 03-03-2008, i had my operation. this sunday i am going back to the same bar for a repeat of the beer and food i had on the way to the hospital. 2.oo pm on sunday in vulcan lane in auckland at the "occidental". any valve replacement.com members get "shouted" to a free lunch; see you there! ( i reckon i am bloody lucky i am in auckland and not usa or canada! )
