{"id":119,"date":"2007-08-19T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/19\/after-ross-procedure-melissa-ready-to-go-home-2\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:15:22","slug":"after-ross-procedure-melissa-ready-to-go-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/19\/after-ross-procedure-melissa-ready-to-go-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"After Ross Procedure, Melissa Is Ready To Leave The Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week, I have been sharing with you the story of Melissa Causey. Melissa and I became friendly after her Uncle Ted sent Melissa a copy of my book.<\/p>\n<p>If I remember right, that was about two months ago. Like me, Melissa needed aortic valve replacement surgery. And, like me, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/ross-procedure.php\">Melissa chose the Ross Procedure technique<\/a> as her surgical option.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout this process, Melissa has had an amazing attitude. Although I&#8217;m sure she had her moments of fear, uncertainty and doubt (like most heart valve surgery patients), her story is inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Heart-Patient-Walking.JPG\" alt=\"Melissa Causey With Family In Hospital After Ross Procedure\" width=\"372\" height=\"278\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, Melissa entered the hospital for her heart valve replacement operation. Dr. William Ryan of Cardiothoracic Surgery Associates of North Texas, a highly regarded Ross Surgeon specialist, was Melissa&#8217;s surgeon.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? Today, five days later, Melissa will be going home. Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Wooo-Whooooo!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ross-procedure"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","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=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38249,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/38249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}