{"id":609,"date":"2008-10-08T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/10\/08\/after-bovine-replacement-a-fib-kenneth-strokes-best-golf-score-ever\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T00:41:39","slug":"after-bovine-replacement-a-fib-kenneth-strokes-best-golf-score-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/10\/08\/after-bovine-replacement-a-fib-kenneth-strokes-best-golf-score-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"After Cow Valve Replacement &#038; A-Fib, Kenneth Strokes Best Golf Score Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This email from Kenneth conjured up an ear-to-ear smile on my face.<\/p>\n<p>As you can read below&#8230; Kenneth details the chronology to his best golf score ever. I guess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/cow-valve-replacement.php\">bovine (cow) valve replacement<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation.php\">atrial fibrillation<\/a>\u00a0helps your heart and your golf game!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/hole_in_one.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"324\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Adam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>April 25, 2008: Aortic valve replacement (bovine)<\/li>\n<li>April 30, 2008: First incident of <em>atrial fibrillation<\/em><\/li>\n<li>May 02, 2008: Second incident of a-fib<\/li>\n<li>May 04, 2008: Third incident of a-fib<\/li>\n<li>May 06, 2008: Out of hospital of a-fib<\/li>\n<li>October 06, 2008: First &#8220;Hole In One&#8221; and shot 83; Best Score Ever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for your heart valve book and your encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/13\/golfing-after-open-heart-surgery-dennis-does\/\">Golfing After Heart Valve Surgery: Dennis&#8217; Hole-in-One<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/cow-valve-replacement.php\">Cow Valve Replacement: Top 5 Facts Patients Should Know<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/atrial-fibrillation.php\">Atrial Fibrillation Patient Education Center<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nKenneth Kahn<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atrial-fibrillation-afib"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42096,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/42096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}