Ben's Journal

Had a failed Ross procedure about 3 weeks ago. Had some significant bleeding from the right coronary artery, and in a repeated attempts to stop the bleeding they ended up running a suture through a cusp in my valve. They were unable to fix it so they cut it out and ended up giving me a mechanical aortic valve… (And a lifetime subscription to warfarin).

I'm kind of frustrated about that. I was a well educated and involved patient, in really good shape, and I feel like my team failed me (but at the same time, they saved my life.)

I felt pretty good (although pretty fatigued) before surgery. How long post op does it take to actually feel better than before surgery. I figure about 12 weeks?

Right now I'm having buyer's remorse…


 Any one have some words of wisdom?