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Diagnosis: Aortic Stenosis

Member Since: July 24, 2025

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Mark Decapite posted an update
1 hour ago (June 17, 2026)
Hello Everyone just wanted to inform you that I'm going to have my tavr surgery. Tuesday afternoon, hoping everything will go well. I will keep you informed. I have been getting echoes for the last 8 years, and I finally turned into the severe part of it. So we figured... Read more.
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10 months ago (July 24, 2025)
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Mark Decapite posted an update
10 months ago (July 24, 2025)
Hello, just wondering, if people out there that have had the aorta valve replacement which I'm gonna be due for relatively soon.Have you had complications after the surgery?And how do you feel a lot better or not?Just curious thanks for listening
Although I had an aortic valve replacement at the time of my surgery, the main reason I had surgery was due to my ascending aorta and aortic root aneurysms. I was not having any symptoms from the regurgitant aortic valve or aneurysms. Luckily, I did not have any complications, and... Read more.
Hi, Marie. It sounds like a pretty major operation. You went through, so glad that everything turned out fine. It is just scary doing an operation when you feel great.
That was one of the harder things to finally accept. You are right in that it is hard to accept that you really have to do this. Acceptance was one of my harder lessons in all of this. I listened to meditations on acceptance, calming, healing topics. Yoga and staying... Read more.

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