Hi everyone,
Hi all, I'm Karen I just discovered this group today & thought it would be good to join as it would be nice to be in touch with people who have been through the same sort of thing as me!! Just a little bit about myself. I'm 27 & i'm from New Zealand. I've been living in England for the last 4 years. I was born with a hole in my heart, a leaky valve & a couple of other things as well!!!! I had the valve replaced first when i when 4, then again when i was 17. I just recently had it done again. I went home at the start of th year & had my op on the first of March. I had my tricuspid & pulmanary valve replaced & a pace maker wire attached (no pace maker just yet though!) I came back to England the start of June & am doing pretty well. Still have the odd bad day here & there of course! Would love to get in touch with anyone in a similar situation. Just send me a e.mail! Karen
Hello Karen, You've really been through the mill, heart wise. You may find www.ValveReplacement.com to be of interest. There are sections and references to just about every type of heart issue and an excellent FORUM broken up into several topics. 'AL' (CABG and AVR)
I'm Donna, 58 year old, triple bypass Feb 9, 2007. I had heart attack in hospital while waiting for my doctor to go home and take a nap before doing a heart cath on me to check out my chest pain.. They put a balloon heart pump in me until they could get an operating room several hours later. I was moving toward that bright light..lol.. After the surgery, I was in coma and on life support for 5 days...gradually started waking up and was in hospital ccu another 5. In this 5 weeks at home, I've had 4 or 5 good days. Gheeze, will it ever get better?
In a message dated 3/20/2007 8:30:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mandyofca@... writes: Curious if anyone has had this experience. My husband says I have not been active enough for it to drain. Mandyof CA I gad it drained 4 times before i left the hospital and a few after I came home it wasn't about activity... i was just retaining fluids.. Rose