{"id":40398,"date":"2025-05-08T03:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T08:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=40398"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:02:02","slug":"tavr-mountain-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2025\/05\/08\/tavr-mountain-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"TAVR Powers Richard To Mount Whitney Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I LOVE getting inspirational updates from heart patients all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Richard Godbey shared a big milestone for him after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/medtronic-tavr-procedure\">transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/TAVR-Patient-Mountain-Climbing.jpg\" alt=\"TAVR Patient Mountain Climbing\" width=\"650\" height=\"578\" \/>Richard Godbey (TAVR patient) with Son at Mount Whitney<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Richard Says&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>Here is what Richard wrote to me:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Adam, In October 2023, I had TAVR for aortic stenosis.\u00a0 My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/interventional-cardiologist\/finder.php\">interventional cardiologist<\/a> was Dr. Devang Desai at St. Marys Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>After surgery and three months of cardiac rehabilitation, I continued training on my own.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024&#8230; 9 months after TAVR&#8230; My son and I climbed Mount Whitney in East-Central California.\u00a0 We climbed Mount Whitney, which has an elevation of 14,505 feet, at the end of our hiking trip on the High Sierra Trail which &#8211; we traveled west to east &#8211; through Sequoia National Park.<\/p>\n<p>For those facing a valve replacement, I want you to know&#8230; There is life after TAVR. And mountains to climb.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2025\/03\/20\/marathon-runner\/\">123 Days After Surgery, Justin Runs a Marathon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2024\/04\/22\/robotic-patient-success-story\/\">Lynn&#8217;s 5 Lessons Learned for Complex Mitral Valve Surgery<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/medtronic-tavr-procedure\">New Aortic Stenosis and TAVR Patient Education Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Richard Godbey<br \/>\nWellington, Nevada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40398","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\/40398","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=40398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40847,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40398\/revisions\/40847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}