{"id":463,"date":"2008-07-22T19:54:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T00:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/07\/22\/melissa-causey-11-months-after-ross-procedure-recovery-feeling-great\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T21:13:16","slug":"melissa-causey-11-months-after-ross-procedure-recovery-feeling-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/07\/22\/melissa-causey-11-months-after-ross-procedure-recovery-feeling-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Causey, 11 Months After Ross Procedure Surgery&#8230; Feeling Great!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing better than hearing from one of my readers <em>after<\/em> their open-heart surgery recovery is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I received a very nice note from Melissa Causey. As you might remember, Melissa had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/ross-procedure.php\">Ross operation<\/a> in 2006 by Dr. William Ryan in Texas. She attached a recent picture that I have posted below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/melissa-causey.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"302\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FYI, here is a picture of Melissa just three days after her Ross Procedure in the hospital.<\/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=\"Mellisa Causey - Dr. William Ryan's Patient\" width=\"372\" height=\"278\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Melissa writes to me, &#8220;Dear Adam &#8211; I\u2019m now 11 months post-op from my Ross Procedure and feeling great! My Uncle Ted gave me your heart valve surgery book a month before my surgery, and it is one of the best gifts I could have ever received. Your book really helped to prepare me as well as my family for my surgery and recovery. After reading your book, I was also able to communicate more effectively with my surgeon and cardiologist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for sharing Melissa! I really appreciate it!<\/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-463","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\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38246,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/38246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}