{"id":780,"date":"2009-04-25T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T23:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/25\/bicuspid-valve-replacement-aortic-root-repair-softball\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:33:18","slug":"bicuspid-valve-replacement-aortic-root-repair-softball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/04\/25\/bicuspid-valve-replacement-aortic-root-repair-softball\/","title":{"rendered":"After Bicuspid Valve Replacement And Root Repair, It’s Softball Season For Kevin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone interested in a patient success story that smells of 100% inspiration?<\/p>\n

If so, read this wonderful story about Kevin Hains which addresses soooooooo many patient issues specific to heart valve surgery. Here is what Kevin wrote to me:<\/p>\n

Adam,<\/p>\n

I am 39-years old and had aortic valve replacement and aortic root repair surgery on October 27, 2008. I had a heavily calcified bicuspid valve<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Due to my age, I opted for a mechanical valve. My adjustment to Coumadin has been very smooth.\u00a0 It is amazing what the body will endure!\u00a0 After surgery, I spent 2 1\/2 months in Cardiac Rehab and I have been at the gym four to five days a week since.\u00a0 I am in law enforcement, am an active athlete and have played sports my entire life.<\/p>\n

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\"Kevin
\nKevin Hains – Heart Valve Surgery Patient<\/div>\n

 
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It is been 6 months since surgery. Hats off to Dr. Alphonse Delucia (pictured below), my cardiothoracic surgeon in Kalamazoo, Michigan! Dr. Delucia<\/a> recently cleared me to begin running again.<\/p>\n

Last night, I was able to participate in opening day with my softball team.\u00a0 This was my goal since having my surgery. I told all of my buddies (who were a huge support system for me) that I would be ready to play the shortstop position on opening day.<\/p>\n

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\"Dr.<\/div>\n

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My life has returned to normal so incredibly fast since surgery. I realize each patient recovers differently from open heart surgery, but I hope other patients can glean positive thoughts and realize good things do happen after surgery.<\/p>\n

Thanks Adam for your heart valve surgery book<\/a>, your blog, and all of the inspirational stories from other readers!!!<\/p>\n

Regards,<\/p>\n

Kevin Hains
\nKalamazoo, MI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicuspid-aortic-valve"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}