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Diagnosis: Mitral Regurgitation, Atrial Fibrillation

Member Since: August 9, 2016

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Barbara Wood uploaded a photo

8 years ago (May 22, 2018)

Was in the middle of mitral valve repair surgery one year ago today! Here's what a one year old scar looks like :) Thanks & best wishes everyone!

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Rita Savelis

Wow! Have to look hard to see the scar....or maybe I was just drawn to the shiny heart instead!

Lilly Black

Barbara, the scar looks great...hardly noticeable! 😊

Penelope Bodek

Holy smokes! I thought that was a before picture. You healed great. What's your secret?

Anna Jones

Thank you. That is an amazing picture. You have to look really hard to see your scar. I'm so happy for you that you are doing well.

Chris Purvis

Wow thats looks really good! Can't even see it.

Rita Savelis

I still remember that when your scar was new, it just looked like cleavage anyway! Some people have all the luck! xo

Civita Fahey

Looks Great Barbara.. mine is still red! but then the scar from my foot surgery is just getting light and that was 3 years ago.. UGH.. I have way too much pink in my skin... you would think having been born in Italy I would have some olive tones.. hahaha..... Read more.

Veronica Gunthner

Amazing! Gives me hope!

Michelle E

Barbara that looks great! Nice to know we can make 'friends' with our scars - they are just part of who we are now, with a survivor's story to go with them!

Debbie Chatzky

That's amazing!!

Barbara Wood

Thanks! I had a pediatric surgeon - guess he knew how to take the tiny stitches, & I followed Ritas advice & tried to keep it covered in the sun. Oh yeah, my cleavage scar...nice while it lasted:)

Melissa A

Did you put anything on it after surgery? That scar looks amazing!

Carolyn Newell

Looks great! Very impressive. xo

Barbara Wood

Melissa, just regular body lotion - Burts Bees

Valerie Archual

Awesome!!!! Can you believe we are a year out?! So glad youre doing so well!!!!

Sara Moyce

Beautiful! As others commented above, gives me hope❤️

Rosemary Hudson

Amazing Barbara after only one year, Wow. :)

Diane Esposito

Thanks so much for sharing this; I have been dreading the sternotomy scar, but yours looks great! Maybe mine won't be so bad.

Diane Esposito

Hey, Barbara My incision is healed enough for me to look into minimizing the scar appearance so besides keeping it out of the sun, I've ordered a silicone strip to use twice a day. Did you put anything on yours while it was healing?

Barbara Wood uploaded a photo

9 years ago (June 17, 2017)

My scar at 3 1/2 weeks. ( that's not cleavage, that's my scar:)) I had a full sternotomy- it healed so fast!

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Rita Savelis

wow! It does look like cleavage! And it looks good!

Andria Pugh

looking good barbara

Wanda Mroz

Looks great!

Jill Krajnovich

Looks really good!

Barbara Laurie

Barbara!!! Fantastic! Wow kiddo, you. Did. Great! Yay! It takes awhile (I thought) for the chest to calm down, swelling, etc. I was on my back for 6 weeks so, I'm not a good example, but wow, I think you look great, and you have good color in your face,... Read more.

Marie Myers

Did you get your chest X Ray done? If so, did it look ok?

Barbara Wood

Thank you all! Marie, I had my chest xray...it showed a small pleural effusion that he said will be absorbed, otherwise the lungs were clear, they were happy with it.

Soggy Rodent

Barbara, with the pleural effusion, were you having a hard time sleeping? I also had a pleural effusion and felt like I was jumping out of my skin with oxygen hunger every time I laid down. I found it was easier to get oxycodone than it was to get oxygen...

Marie Myers

You will feel so much better once that pleural effusion disappears! Even if it is "small" it still diminishes your oxygen carrying capacity.

Barbara Wood

Yes, Soggy, I've been having a very hard time sleeping & the jumping out of your skin is a very good description of the way I feel when I hit the bed. I'm not sure what causes it- afib, pleural effusion, the amiodorone I've recently been prescribed. I'll be curious... Read more.

Sally Strand

Hi Barbara sorry to hear about your setback but you are looking good and I love your attitude. I am also just 4 weeks past mitral valve repair and patience is something I am working on too!

Barbara Wood

Hi Sally :) Yes we do learn a lot about ourselves during this adjustment period, don't we? And I thought it was going to be so easy!! Best wishes on your recovery, keep us posted on how it is going...

Melissa Houser

Hi Barbara - the scar looks great! Sorry to hear you have been short of breath (possibly from pleural effusion?) and had persistent a fib. I pray for quick healing and resolutions to these problems. I see cardiology tomorrow, so I will post an update for my 4 week mark... Read more.

Linda Richards

you look great!!

Lise Bowles

Wow Barbara, You look great! I wish I had gone with the sternotomy! Isnt it amazing? I hope you are feeling better regarding your breathing and lung issues. Remember, it takes time for our bodies to recover fully. Its been 10 months for me and I am still having to... Read more.

Barbara Wood

Thanks Lise, my lung & breathing problems have eased a lot. Life after ohs can be a hard slog! I hope too that when you come off your current medication that your pericarditis will be resolved & gone forever! I'm glad to hear you're taking it slowly, so am I-... Read more.

Barbara Helen Dance

Hello Barbara (2), Hi, I do love you latest photo............ please can I have the same result please ??????-. Thank you for your support, it means a great deal, as I am sure you know, (having been there, done that and brought the t.shirt....haha.). You are looking good....I remember you... Read more.

Barbara Helen Dance

Hi Barbara, thank you for your advice, love and best wishes for my surgery, ( i'm afraid I am useless when it comes to technology, haha. I have managed to upload a photo...... but not to my profile....😒,and I think I now have my date sorted.....(I wondered why I couldn't... Read more.

Valerie Archual

You look great!!!

Barbara Wood uploaded a photo

9 years ago (June 1, 2017)

My scar, day 10

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Catie B

Looks very, very good!

Adam Pick

Lookin' good!!!

Phyllis Petersen

That looks really good!

Jill Krajnovich

Your scar looks great!

Anonymous

Where is it?😉 It looks great!

Barbara Wood

Thanks! I'm so f-ing proud of it! My surgeon does pediatric heart surgery & he rolls it inward & stitches under the skin so it hardly shows- it's such a dainty scar!

Cathleen Weed

Looks great 😊❤️