{"id":1052,"date":"2010-02-09T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/02\/09\/mitral-valve-repair-blood-clots-pericardial-effusion\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:57:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:57:53","slug":"mitral-valve-repair-blood-clots-pericardial-effusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/02\/09\/mitral-valve-repair-blood-clots-pericardial-effusion\/","title":{"rendered":"After Mitral Valve Repair, Blood Clots, A-Fib and Excess Fluid, Duane Is… Home!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is often said that heart surgery can be\u00a0a physical and emotional rollercoaster for patients. There are ups… And, there are downs.<\/p>\n

If anyone can testify to that realistic thought, it is Duane Hunt.\u00a0As you might recall,\u00a0I recently featured Duane’s story\u00a0at our new online community, Heart Valve Journals, following his\u00a0mitral valve repair.<\/p>\n

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Well, since that post… Duane has, unfortunately, been back-and-forth to the operating room for complications including\u00a0blood clots, atrial fibrillation\u00a0and excess fluid around the heart.<\/p>\n

Still, after all that he has been through, Duane maintains an incredible positive outlook on his experience – especially now that Duane is home!!!<\/p>\n

As Duane writes, “We are home! Obviously we have felt all the emotions–gratitude, excitement, fear, relief, peace, and joy! It\u2019s indescribable how you feel when you are wheeled out on a wheelchair. I was overwhelmed with gratitude for the superb care and skill of Florida Hospital Orlando!”<\/p>\n

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Finally, I want to acknowledge Duane’s support group. His family and friends\u00a0have now posted over 450 comments of support, encouragement and love to Duane’s Guestbook<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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To read more about his journey, I encourage you to visit Duane’s Heart Valve Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin’ Duane!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}