About Me (In My Own Words)
I'm 52 years old.
I was first diagnosed with a mitral valve murmer in the summer of 2000. I was refered to a cardiologist after my family doctor heard the murmer.
The cardiologist told me I could have been born with the problem, or it could have started at any time. He just sugested that we continue monitoring my heart, which I have done. In 1976 I was diognosed & treated for Hodgkins disease. At the time I was treated with massive doses of radiation. Between 2000 to now I have been told that the radiation I recieved, is the reason I have minimal calcification on my mitral valve, as well as major calcification on my Aortic valve. On November 19, 2010, I had my aortic valve replaced (At Kaiser perminente) with a mechanical valve.
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I am from:
Lancaster, California
