Adam’s Heart Valve Surgery Blog

I just wanted to send my thoughts and prayers to Beverly Simmons of Fullerton, California, as she continues her early recovery at St. Jude’s hospital.

For those of you who have not visited Bev’s Heart Valve Journal yet, she had aortic valve replacement - using a pig (porcine) valve - on February 16, 2010. (Bev suffered from aortic stenosis.)

Beverly Simmons, 83, Heart Valve Replacement Patient

Although Bev, who celebrated her 83rd birthday in the hospital, recently received a “clean bill of health” from her doctors, the past few weeks have been filled with several ups and downs - including an emergency room visit days after her surgery.

That said, thanks to all of you who have posted over 275 comments in Bev’s Guestbook. I know she appreciates reading your words of encouragement and love.

To learn more about her unique story, please visit Bev’s Heart Valve Journal and her Guestbook.

Keep on tickin’ Bev!

Hi everybody,

I just learned that my book, The Patient’s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery, is currently sold out at Amazon.com. FYI, I’m not exactly sure when Amazon will be getting more copies. My guess would be 2-3 weeks.

However, if you are interested in reading the new 2010 edition, you can still get an eBook or paperback copy directly from this website by clicking here.

FYI… Amazon.com does not have the 2010 edition and does not offer a 100% money-back guarantee, so it’s probably better to order from this website anyways.

Keep on tickin!

About The Author: Adam Pick is a double, heart valve surgery patient and author of The Patient’s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. This unique book integrates the clinical facts of heart valve surgery with the personal experiences of 135 former valve surgery patients to help patients and caregivers better understand the opportunities, problems and challenges of heart valve surgery. To learn more about Adam and his heart valve surgery book, click here.

Earlier this month, Dr. Marc Gillinov - one of the leading heart valve surgeons from The Cleveland Clinic - held an exclusive, online chat with our patient and caregiver community. Thanks to your interactive participation, this event was an overwhelming success!!!

Today, I am excited to announce that the written transcript of Dr. Gillinov’s chat, “Advancements In Heart Valve Surgery”, is now available for free download. Simply click here to download the 27-page transcript.

Thanks again to The Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Gillinov and, of course, all of the patients and caregivers who attended the event and submitted questions.

Keep on tickin!

About The Author: Adam Pick is a double, heart valve surgery patient and author of The Patient’s Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. This unique book integrates the clinical facts of heart valve surgery with the personal experiences of 135 former valve surgery patients to help patients and caregivers better understand the problems, the opportunities and the realities of heart valve surgery. To learn more about Adam and his heart valve surgery book, click here.

Since launching this website in 2006, our community has grown way, way, way beyond my initial expectation.

As a result, several new features have been created to help patients and caregivers through the heart valve surgery process. Two recently released services include the Heart Valve Surgeon Database and Heart Valve Journals.

To help you quickly access these tools, I just acquired some easy-to-remember domain names, also known as URLs. That said, here they are:

• www.HeartValveBook.com - This domain name leads to information about my book.
• www.HeartValveBlog.com - This URL takes you straight to this blog.
• www.HeartValveSurgeons.com - This domain name takes you to our heart valve surgeon directory with over 500 surgeon profiles.
• www.HeartValveJournals.com - This URL takes you to our social network that connects patients and caregivers all over the world.

I hope these new domain names help you remember and visit the different services available at this website.

As always… Thanks to all of you who emailed me with this request!!!

Keep on tickin!