{"id":1091,"date":"2010-04-11T09:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T14:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/04\/11\/scotland-heart-valve-repair-maze-procedure\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T11:46:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:46:18","slug":"scotland-heart-valve-repair-maze-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/04\/11\/scotland-heart-valve-repair-maze-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny&#8217;s &#8220;Roller Coaster Recovery&#8221; Slows Down After Double Heart Valve Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read in her <em>Heart Valve Journal<\/em> that Penny McIntosh has seen her recovery get &#8220;back on track&#8221; after a few post-operative complications including atrial fibrillation and fluid in her lungs. As you may know, Penny had mitral and tricuspid valve repairs and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/01\/26\/maze-procedure-video-niv-ad-inova\/\">MAZE procedure<\/a> performed on February 26, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/photoimg\/id\/595\/width\/240\/height\/180\" \/><br \/>\nPenny McIntosh &#8211; Double Heart Valve Repair Patient<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Although her experience has been self-described as a &#8220;roller coaster&#8221;, Penny&#8217;s positive attitude is quickly detected in her recent journal entries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Last Saturday my heart went back to regular rhythm and has stayed except for a brief flip back to atrial fibrillation yesterday.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I had a minor set back with a bout of pleurisy this week but the antibiotics have sorted that out quickly and my breathing is a lot easier today.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I did get the all clear to drive from my GP this week but no inclination to go anywhere just yet and with a new SUV I need time to get used to it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Penny also took the time to show us what her scar looks like five weeks after surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/photoimg\/id\/596\/width\/240\/height\/180\" \/><br \/>\nPenny&#8217;s Sternotomy Scar (5-weeks After Surgery)<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like many patients, including me, Penny also experienced some weight loss after surgery. She notes, &#8220;My weight has dropped down more than 8 kilograms in 5 weeks but I&#8217;m still on fairly high doses of diuretics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read more about Penny&#8217;s heart valve surgery, simply visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/pennymcintosh\">Penny&#8217;s Heart Valve Journal<\/a>. Or, if you would like to start your own free Heart Valve Journal, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Penny!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","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\/1091","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=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}