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Welcome back!I almost didn’t remember this in time!
Today, August 3, is my second “Valversary”. To those readers who don’t happen to be heart patients, that means that it was two years ago today I had my heart valves replaced.
Valve+Anniversary=Valversary.
Don’t groan at ME about it. I did’t make that term up; I read it on a […]

This new medicine they put me on to regulate my heart rate seems to be starting to work. It’s only been two days since I started taking it, but I’m already experiencing fewer skipped heart beats. I’d like to get to the point where I could get away with being active again. With Summer all […]

I have had rheumatoid arthritis for about ten years. It damaged two of my heart valves to the point where they had to be replaced two years ago. My surgeon elected not to use mechanical valves. Instead, he used valves made from bovine pericardial tissue. He told me at the time that this was because […]

As I mentioned a little earlier, I spent the greater part of today getting transported to and from the heart surgeon’s office. What happened while I was there was both a relief and a disappointment at the same time.
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The test on my heart yesterday wasn’t as bad as I anticipated. I explained to the nurse handling the anestetic what happened the last time I had that test done and she said she’d go really easy on the medication - which she did. She had told me several times that, while I wouldn’t lose […]