{"id":745,"date":"2009-03-23T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/03\/23\/certified-dog-therapist-dyno-visits-erik-in-hospital\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:44:09","slug":"certified-dog-therapist-dyno-visits-erik-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/03\/23\/certified-dog-therapist-dyno-visits-erik-in-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Certified Dog Therapist, Dyno, Visits Erik In Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could not resist posting this very, very, very interesting note from Erik. I never knew that <em>certified dog therapists<\/em> existed!<\/p>\n<p>Adam,<\/p>\n<p>I just created a surgeon profile for Dr. Vib Kshettry, Minneapolis Heart Institute, in your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeon-database\/add-valve-surgeon.php\">surgeon database.<\/a> I would also give kudos to my cardiologist, Dr. Kevin Graham at the Minneapolis Heart Institute.\u00a0 They have a heck-of-a-team and clinic there. I just don&#8217;t have enough positive adjectives to describe these two physicians.<\/p>\n<p>As a &#8220;young&#8221; patient at the age of 37, open heart surgery was very scary.\u00a0 It gave me peace-of-mind to know I had the best-of-the-best. It was a year ago and I feel great.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/dog-heart-surgery.jpg\" alt=\"Dyno, Dog Therapist Visits Heart Surgery Patient and Owner, Erik\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><br \/>\nErik, With Dyno, The Dog Therapist, After Heart Surgery<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Just for fun&#8230;&#8230;I attached a photo of my first day out of ICU.\u00a0 Our dog, Dyno, is a certified animal &#8220;therapist&#8221; and my wife takes her to several hospitals and visits.\u00a0 This visit was personal.\u00a0 She actually stayed a couple hours and just slept with me.<\/p>\n<p>Hope all is well with you.<\/p>\n<p>Erik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}