Started 1 week ago (2009-12-14 13:57:00)
by Duffey
Quote:
Originally Posted by OldGeezerWNC
Good Monday Morning All. Rainy, foggy morning today in the
Smoky Mountains. Tomorrow is the day. We make the drive over to Asheville for a 9am check in. Then the rush begins. I know I have to get to the room and get settled in, just in time to get prepped for the Heart Cath. So as of ...
Started 2 weeks, 6 days ago (2009-12-01 06:25:00)
by kfay
Best of luck with his surgery. You'll be able to breathe a big
sigh of relief when it is over. I'm with the others on the whole bandage thing...didn't have one for either surgery. Had steri-strips the first time, was sewn from the inside out this last time with nothing visible on my chest.
Started 6 days, 11 hours ago (2009-12-15 09:03:00)
by Superbob
Jan,
Sending all best wishes and prayers to you for an excellent result Wednesday and a smooth recovery.
Started 1 week, 3 days ago (2009-12-11 19:44:00)
by Johan
All the best for the 16th Doug. I shall be thinking of you and vortexing as many
guardian spirits as I can to look after you and the surgical team!
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-13 13:58:00)
by Maryka
I don't know the answer on this one. I never studied up on
robotic surgery, since my situation also had an almost-hidden aneurysm that my surgeon could not "see" until he actually got into my chest. (It could not usually be seen, except with a thoracic CT scan.) If you had some time and endless money I would recommend getting the opinion of Dr. Liang at Stanford who was the only one who ...
Started 1 day, 19 hours ago (2009-12-20 00:25:00)
by Nicholas288
Thank to everyone for all there feedback.
I met with my surgeon yesterday and have decided to move ahead with the surgery. I will have the aneurism repaired and my BAV replaced with a
St. Jude's. The decision for me at 40 was based on avoiding future operations as much as possible.
The surgeon has said that I am stable and that it doesn't need to be done today. With the holidays, I am ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-12-14 13:58:00)
by OldGeezerWNC
Good Morning
I agree with Al, my wife got my
Christmas present early for me. A new recliner with heat and vibrator. One thing I did was to build a 6 inch box for it to sit on. Bolted it to the box for safety. This helped me a whole lot. Especially in the getting out of it part. I just lean forward and I'm out. No pushing upward with my arms on the arms of the chair. I spent 3 months in the ...
Started 4 days, 20 hours ago (2009-12-17 00:02:00)
by Lynlw
Quote:
Originally Posted by Debbrn
The current plan is to do my next PVR in May at Boston Children's by Dr. Mayer. The original plan was to have Dr. Bacha do the surgery, but he will be leaving for New York. I know very little about Dr. Mayer.
Money wise it would be cheeper to go up to Boston for all the
pre-op testing and ...
Started 4 days, 22 hours ago (2009-12-16 22:03:00)
by Lily
This might be what is called hemolysis.
My uncle's doctors recently suspected his defective native aortic valve might have been causing hemolysis for him -- and I was under the impression that having a native valve cause it was an unusual situation and it is more frequently caused by a mechanical valve -- though I didn't hear the
final diagnosis about Uncle's situation. But it was at ...
Started 2 months ago (2009-10-15 22:40:00)
by jamful
Hello all- I want to say first that I have been reading and learning so much and that this site is a Godsend. I am a 61 year old male with a complex history waiting to be scheduled for aortic and bicuspid replacement along with 3 re-bypasses. I had Hodgkins Disease when I was 28 and in those days they gave massive doses of radiation with minimal effort to preserve
heart and lungs. 33 years ...
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