{"id":7387,"date":"2011-12-14T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2018-08-29T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T02:16:00","slug":"aortic-stenosis-mitral-valve-prolapse-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/12\/14\/aortic-stenosis-mitral-valve-prolapse-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, My Thoughts Are With Sarah &#038; Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent some time at Heart Valve Journals, our social network for patients and caregivers going through heart valve surgery.<\/p>\n<p>While there, I noticed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/sarahharnett\">Sarah Harnett<\/a>, from Michigan, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/steveregouby\">Steve Regouby<\/a>, from Oklahoma, are getting their heart valves fixed today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Steve Regouby (Aortic Stenosis) &amp; Sarah Harnett (Mitral Valve Prolapse)\" src=\"\/Images\/steve-sarah.jpg\" width=\"479\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>As Sarah wrote in her journal this morning, &#8220;Shortly I&#8217;ll leave for the hospital. Thanks for so many for the encouraging words on the blog and in cards, on the phone and in person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last night, Steve wrote in his journal, &#8220;The day is at an end. Off I go to bed. Hopefully, a few hours rest. Then, off to the hospital at 5:00 am. Family and friends will be there to encourage me. Wow, that&#8217;s love, getting up at 4:30am to go and wish someone well in surgery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more about Steve and Sarah as they proceed through their surgery and recovery, please visit their journals by clicking these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/sarahharnett\">Sarah is having mitral valve surgery for mitral valve prolapse.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/steveregouby\">Steve is having aortic valve replacement surgery for aortic stenosis.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Sarah &amp; Steve!<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts are with you!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7387","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\/7387","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=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}