Mark's Journal
Aortic Stenosis, Joined November 15, 2025
Aortic Stenosis
Joined November 15, 2025
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I am from: Edmonds, Washington -
My surgery date is: December 23, 2025
My hospital stay was a rocky road. Ended up staying 14 days! I had anticipated 5-7.
Feeling pretty good now. ...Read more
My hospital stay was a rocky road. Ended up staying 14 days! I had anticipated 5-7.
Feeling pretty good now. Walking 5+ miles a day with some days reaching over 8 miles. Feels like each day I can do some new thing I couldn’t do the week before.
I finally got up the nerve to look at my heart picture the surgeon took. YIKES. not everyone can say they have seen their own heart!
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It sounds like you are having a great recovery. You’ll rock rehab.
My Right Ventrical was a bit lazy post-op so I ended up on Do ... Read more
My Right Ventrical was a bit lazy post-op so I ended up on Dopamine balanced with Blood Pressure meds. When they took me of Dopamine my BP dropped really low and kicked my a$$ for a few days. They ended up deciding to wean me off Dopamine very slowly moving forward over the course of several days. Best as I can tell the medication balancing act is part art
and part science.
Best of luck...
them so much gratitude. The surgical
team seemed very co ... Read more
them so much gratitude. The surgical
team seemed very competent. So far my follow up appointments have been fine. A PA named Melissa was very nice if you run into her.
That said, I know it is still a recent memory and the PTSD from it all can linger, all at the time while you are feeling that much better. I often think we are the lucky ones; we had a health problem that could be seen and fixed. I focus on that a lot. Take care.