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Hi Kellie. I just signed on to my journal & saw your note from 7/21. I changed e-mail addresses so I don\'t get notifications anymore & don\'t see a way to change it in my profile. I only get into the journals now & then these days so please forgive me for taking so long to respond. Happy belated anniversary to you too. I\'m so sorry to hear about problems in your personal life & hope things look up for you very soon. You survived your surgery because life is a wonderful thing. I\'m sure it may not seem that way right now, but hang in there. You got through a difficult time last year & you\'ll get through this too. Things are going just fine for me. I\'ve returned to teaching yoga & stay very busy with that. My classes at the Sun City fitness center have been quite large this summer which is rewarding & fun. I took a special course in \"Cardiac Yoga\" this spring & recently taught a 5 class series for heart patients. I may teach more in the future, but life threw me a curve as well. Earlier this year, both of my parents had to be admitted to a nursing home simultaneously. They relocated to a nursing home here in Georgetown in June so my husband & I are essentially their caregivers now. We see them several times a week, do their laundry, taken them to doctors, that kind of thing. Gets a little intense, but you do what you must. Thank goodness this did not occur last year. So, that\'s my story. My e-mail if you\'d like to correspond apart from the journals is yogaessence1@yahoo.com. It was so nice to hear from you. Be well - Joy

Happy Anniversary, Kellie! Happy to hear you are healthy and I hope all the other things in your life that are troubling you turn around very soon. Enjoy life! Ricki Shine

As far as I know, heart enlargement is common to almost everyone who has valve disorder. You acquired it before you had your surgery because of the malfunctioning valve.But now that you have e good valve, time will come that your heart will restore to its normal size. I\'m 6 mos.post op, until now I still take med for my heart, occasionally, I still feel that heavy feeling in my chest, but I\'m not bothered because I know my heart is still enlarged.Just keep you bp in the normal level.Hope you are enlightened. Regards!

Kellie: Your heart does not yet know that it has been repaired. It will take time to heal. My cardiologist said that the conditions you have before you go into surgery will be there when you get out except that you\'ll have a new valve which helps you heal so that your heart can go back to normal. Is it possible your heart was already enlarged before the surgery and they just reported on a standard condition not aware that you hadn\'t been informed before? Just a possibility. Hope it all works out. Expect some aches and pains for awhile. They go away eventually. Terry C

Wow Kellie - I don\'t know what would cause this but hopefully your cardiologist can tell you what is going on. Keep us posted and my prayers are with you on finding out what is causing it and getting it all worked out. Be Blessed Vickie

Mine is almost six months post surgery.Upon waking up in the morning I still feel that little pain on my chest but subsides when I already get active. To be sure, ask your cardiologist about it. Hope you\'ll feel better! - Letty

Could also be from the incisions? I get daily aches and pains below surface however; I am now comming up on 3 months. Not to worry, I\'m sure all is normal and there is a reasonable explanation. tt

Hi Kellie, yes I have this sometimes. My Cardio said it was related to the cartilage in between the ribs healing. It is mild and not there all the time and obviously eveyone is different but it happens to me Jerry H Louisville

Do you recall lifting anything heavy in the past 48 hrs? Have you ruled out muscle strain? If its of concern then I would place a call to your cardiologist and try asking him over the phone what he thinks it might be? I call mine with many questions before making an appointment for a visit and most of the time he has an answer. Terry T.

Hi Kellie! I don\'t know if this is the same one I knew from DuPont, but if it is, I would like to talk sometime online about some of these topics . Take care, Danny C. Monza977@hotmail.com