{"id":272,"date":"2007-11-27T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T01:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/11\/27\/patient-recovery-spotlight-the-incredible-taylor-browning\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T03:24:15","slug":"patient-recovery-spotlight-the-incredible-taylor-browning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/11\/27\/patient-recovery-spotlight-the-incredible-taylor-browning\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Recovery Spotlight: The Incredible Taylor Browning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every so often, I have an experience that insures my belief that life is nothing short of an amazing opportunity to learn from the extraordinary accomplishments of others.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, I had such an experience.<\/p>\n

Four days ago, at the Manhattan Beach Brewing Company in Southern California, I finally met Michelle and Taylor Browning. Below you can see a picture of Taylor, Michelle, Robyn and me (left to right).<\/p>\n

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So you know, Taylor had heart surgery (aortic valve replacement, root replacement) due to an aortic aneurysm ten months ago. I met the Brownings shortly after Taylor’s wife, Michelle, read my book and sent me some questions.<\/p>\n

Since then, the three of us of us have continued to exchange emails as Taylor progressed through his procedure and then his recovery.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Craig Miller of Stanford Medical Center<\/a> performed the operation which resulted in Taylor receiving a St. Jude mechanical valve replacement. (Yes. That’s Dr. Miller in the cowboy hat. According to Taylor, Dr. Miller and his team perform most heart surgeries in their cowboy boots.)<\/p>\n

You probably figured it out already…. Taylor’s surgery was a complete success.<\/p>\n

During his recovery, Taylor continuously kept his support group aware of his recovery via email. Every few weeks, Taylor would send out a progress report, which culminated in his final recovery email.<\/p>\n

Meeting Taylor and Michelle Browning in-person with Robyn (my wife), was a special moment for me. We hugged and laughed as if we had known each other for a long, long, long time.<\/p>\n

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The more we chatted, the more we realized that our lives had already, remotely criss-crossed.<\/p>\n