{"id":40545,"date":"2025-04-20T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=40545"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:12:44","slug":"tammi-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2025\/04\/20\/tammi-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tammi&#8217;s 10-Year Heart Valve Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How good can life be 10 years after successful heart valve surgery by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Robert+Saeid-Farivar-Boise-Idaho.php\">Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tammi Gunwall, a patient who recently celebrated her 10th heart valve anniversary, we know that life can be pretty darn great.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/tammi-gunwall-10th-patient-anniversary.jpg\" alt=\"Tammi Gunwall 10th Heart Valve Anniversary\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is a wonderful video posted by Tammi with lots and lots and lots of evidence that she is making the most of her &#8220;second chance&#8221; at life:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F593345173513113%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=267&amp;t=0\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Tammi Says&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>Here is what Tammi posted as she became another 10-year patient success story in our community:<\/p>\n<p>TEN YEARS!! \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blessed with countless memories since heart surgery 10yrs ago today! \u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83e\ude79 All I can say is, THANK YOU GOD FOR ALL OF IT &#8211; the love, the loss, the struggles, the lessons, the laughter, the tears, the new experiences, the beautiful connections&#8230; and the grandbabies!!! \ud83e\udd17<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/tammi-family.jpg\" alt=\"Tammi Gunwall Family\" width=\"554\" height=\"547\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are no words and not enough photos to express my love for life nor the magnitude of my gratitude. I don&#8217;t take one moment for granted. Not even the hard ones. If you&#8217;re reading this, it means you&#8217;ve had an impact on my life, and I thank you for being a part of my world. \ud83e\udef6 God is so so good! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Go Tammi! Go!<\/h2>\n<p>Congrats on your 10th heart valve anniversary Tammi!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for sharing your experience with us over the years!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40545","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\/40545","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=40545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40668,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40545\/revisions\/40668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}