{"id":775,"date":"2009-04-22T17:32:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T22:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/22\/race-car-driving-homograft-aortic-valve-replacement\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:41:08","slug":"race-car-driving-homograft-aortic-valve-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/22\/race-car-driving-homograft-aortic-valve-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"After Valve Surgery, Infection And Coma, Steve Hits 175 Miles Per Hour&#8230; Once Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said it before and I will say it again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing better than turning on my computer, opening my email inbox and reading an inspirational, patient success story from one of my readers. This morning, I learned about Steve&#8217;s recovery from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-replacement.php\">heart valve replacement surgery<\/a> which was complicated by an infection and six days in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/formula-one-car.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"262\" \/><br \/>\nSteve Returns To Racing After Heart Valve Replacement<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Here is what Steve writes:<\/p>\n<p>Hi Adam &#8211; I do not know whether this will actually get to you but thank you for your book and blog. I received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/05\/video-aortic-valve-replacement-with-homograft-by-dr-kevin-accola\/\">homograft aortic valve<\/a> in early 2006 due to a post-Hurricane Katrina contracted infection. I am from New Orleans, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My case was far from ordinary as I had an uncontrolled infection prior to surgery. Then, I ended up in a coma for 6 days after surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of information about valve surgery and my infection was quite frustrating to my wife and family. I think it is important for patients and family members to know that sometimes surgery and recovery does not go smoothly. But, ultimately everything can turn out alright.<\/p>\n<p>I think there are a number of questions that family members can and should be ask <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-surgery-complications.php\">in the event of a complicated, post-operative period<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, I am a long-time, professional race car driver. On my one-year anniversary from valve surgery, I was back at the wheel driving 175 miles per hour in a Formula car.<\/p>\n<p>I think you are doing a great service for valve patients and their caregivers with your heart valve surgery book. I follow your blog as I&#8217;m always looking for other patient experiences. Looking back on my surgery, it&#8217;s been three years out and I&#8217;m doing great.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Steve Cook<br \/>\nExecutive Director, Chief Scientist<br \/>\nFellowship of Orthopedic Researchers<\/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-775","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\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}