About Me (In My Own Words)
Total of eight open heart surgeries. Turned 59 in November. First op was in 1975 after a 3month bout with bacterial endocarditis. Both aortic and mitral valves were damaged and replaced with pig valves. They lasted `till 1984 when they were both replaced with Bjork Shiley mechanical valves. This op was done in the AM and redone in the PM after the loss of 17 units of blood during the day of the op. Two ops in one day, more or less, the redo ran into the next day, AM. In 1990 the mitral valve developed a leak and was replaced with a St. Jude valve. This was my fourth op, all done through open sternum at KU Med center Kansas City Kansas. To be continued on my journal.
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Kansas City, Missouri