{"id":646,"date":"2008-11-28T11:01:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/28\/cardiac-depression-recovery-aortic-valve\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T17:59:45","slug":"cardiac-depression-recovery-aortic-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/11\/28\/cardiac-depression-recovery-aortic-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Drives Past Cardiac Depression And Heart Palpitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing better than receiving inspirational, patient success stories from my readers.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I opened an email from Brian. As you may recall, Brian experienced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/02\/heart-surgery-and-depression-cardiac-depression\/\">cardiac depression<\/a> following his aortic valve repair earlier this year. As Brian previously wrote to me, &#8220;In my opinion, recovery from heart surgery is way worse than the operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brian, After Aortic Valve Surgery, Holding A Pain Scale Hand\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/brian.jpg\" width=\"355\" height=\"266\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Brian &#8211; Holding His Pain Scale<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; It is now several months later and Brian has a very different perspective to share. Here is Brian&#8217;s update:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Adam &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I just celebrated my six-month anniversary since my aortic valve surgery. Check me out now! Here&#8217;s a picture of me at Willows Springs Raceway!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aortic Valve Repair Patient, Brian, Recovery To Drive Race Cars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/brian-aortic-valve-repair.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"313\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>No one could have convinced me that, six months after surgery, I would be pulling high G-force turns on a race track while manhandling a sports car that demands stamina and strength in the heat of the desert.<\/p>\n<p>I remember being so depressed after heart surgery. I felt like a wilted flower. I also remember thinking that my heart palpitations were going to do me in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. Aidan Raney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/aidan-raney.jpg\" width=\"164\" height=\"204\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230; I love my new ticker. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Aidan-Raney-Newport+Beach-California.php\">Dr. Aidan Raney, my surgeon<\/a>, fixed me bigtime! I feel like I\u2019m 25 again.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again for your heart valve book!<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}