ricardo's Heart Valve Journal

thanks everyone for your thaughs and encouragements it ment alot to me in this time, just to let everyone know i have a appointment with my doctor who did my surgery on june 12 so i am really looking forward to see and hear what he has to say.so i will updating as i go through this process..love you guys.

hi everyone it has been a long time i havent posted a up date but the 30th of may will be 1 year since i did my surgery that is valvular baloonplasty to reopen up my mitral valve,i posted that i had mitral valve reguritation buy that was a mistake,my dionosisnis mitral valve stenosis but anyway it is almost a year now and for 8months out that time i am having really dad chest pain and recently pulpitations,i dont know what to do my doctor say it is just mucels pains and the pulpitations are nothing to worry about but i am really worried because i am feeling even pain in my lungs and i cant work has hard as i use to do,one of my exrays show that my leart was enlarge but what am i to do if the doctors say it is nothing to worry about,,,can someone give me some advise please,,,,love you all.

may 31 2011 i went to to the royal alex hospital in edmonton alberta to get my mitral valve reopen with balloon valvuloplasty,i felt better after a while,to be exact it is now 7months since i did this surrgey and for 5 months out of the seven i felt back to my old self,but since november i am not doing well,i have really bad chest pain,bain around my lungs area whenever i bend down,shortness of breath at times,rapid heart beats at times,`i should change my diagnosis because i have mitral valve stenosis,i am so not doing well rite now,whenever i go to my doctor he just tell me what i want to hear,i am on my last 3 tablet of antibiotics because he say i have Bronchitis but i just feel the same.at present my left side of my heart is hurting me,i just dont know what 2012 have instore for me.love you all and happy new year to all,untill when i update again

hi everyone,marry christmas to all my family out their and a special shout out to mr Adams and his lovely family for joining each and everyone of us together,hope this new year has lots more positive to give,because 2011 was reall ruff,but thanks to god and his gifted servant doctors who are doing such a great job right around the world heart patient like me can say i been healed in such a special way,

hello everyone!i am just updating my journal today i am not doing so well my chest and upper back is paining me real bad it unreal whenever i take in a deep breath i fel a tighing in my chest,i thaugh i was doing fine but i guess not,i am just not feeling that well inside and a work i was lifting alot of heavy weights,but what to do?i thing i will give up soon and just call it a life time,i am doing alot of thinking but thinking is not good enough to fix my problem,i am praying for god to heal my heart and i believe at sometime he will even if its death that seprate me from this sickness.i dont know when i will see my doctor because of certain thing but i will just keep the faith untill then,

hi everyone,i am so happy to know that we are here to help each other onto encourage each other,today i am feeling very good but just one concern i have rite now and it is about aspirin,i have been taking 81 low dose aspirin for the longest while now and i just found out that it can cause kidney failure and to be honest with you i am feeling some sort of discomfort in my kidneys for the longest while now,so if anyone know anything about this asprin and kidney failure please let me know,thank you all.

hi everyone i am doing great,i cant tell you guys how much you have help me through this process thanks for all your supports,i am not feeling anymore pressure in my lungs and i am breading really well now,it just that i feel a little stick in my heart sometime but i guess that will go away soon,the doctors say that it was sucess and i will be doing much better after two weeks..rite now i am just taking it easy ant give praise to god and play with with my family,thanks again everyone.

hi everyone my son was born on the 18 of may and his birth went well 5minutes after my wife started bleeding and the doctors could not stop the bleeding,she lost half of her blood and her blood pressure went down to zero.it turn out to be some pieces of the placenta tissues was still atach to her uterus wall,but thank god it detaches itself in time,i cryed because she almost died,but anyway god has spared her life.on monday i have my surgy so i am very worried but i will stay positive.

thank you guys for all your advices and encuragement,it has open up my eyes to see that this is what i must do if i want to see my kids grow up,thank you guys,i am happy i am not in this thing alone i feel very happy to know that i have all of you guys support.thank.

it has been a few months now and i have not done my surgey because of fear,my lungs are hurting and i am getting short of breath i know i am dieing slowly,i just dont know why i am so stupid and fearfull.one of the thing that is stressing me is that in a few days my wife will give birth to our baby and i would like to be around for my child and my wife,i know life is good but still i am will to die rather than put my trust in god and his servants doctors.i really would like to just do this surgey decause the last time i spoke to my doctor he said i had mitral valve stenosis a tighting of the valve which is causing the pain in my lungs,and he told me that they can fix it by entering through one of my main vains either located in the arm or leg.another thing is that i need to work and save some money so when i take the time off my family dont have to worry about where the next money will come from. before i can do this surgy.if anyone out there who understand what i am going through please help me.your encuragement is greatly needed

hi everyone thank for taking time out to reply to my previous post.i will not stay away that long..my parents was so glad to see me when i went home.
am so happy to here that fran and deanna is doing excellent,as soon as my body say it is time to fix this problem i will do so.thank every again everyone.

hi everyone,mayb some of my friends on here think that i am dead are something lol,but am doing great,i have not done any surgy as yet,but am controlling my sickness well so far,for the pass few month i was just doing some work and visit my parents in jamaica,i thank god for his blessing every day because he is the one yhat is keeping my life so well.to all my friends i will be keeping mm guess book updated ok...love you all

today i felt sad down,learning about the death of lori,i was ot really reading her jurnal but i read her first jurnal when she said that she felt sick,am so sorry to hear this sad news,i know her familly must be in such grief,at present i am thinking not to do any surgey but live untill i faid away like the wind of yesterday,but lorib your candle burnt out brightly.and you have leave two lovely daughters to remind people of how lovely and bless you were.
now lori b you has compleated your jurney and will now get your pair of wings because you were defetnely an angel here,.,.,,,,,

the day is comming when i will meet with my specialiss,to make the dessigion on what to do.and my wedding is comming up real fast.but am tring to take it easy rite now thow.its just life,so we have to take what ever its throw at us.and try to pick up the pieces after.i wonder whan after surgey,how is the winter.does the winter affect the new valve are what.does minuses affect anything.

every day is like am in a dream and just waiting to wake up,but a times rality remines me it is as real as it get,i wonder what it would be like if i was back home in jamaica?here am not loney at all but all my family are in jamaica,only my girlfriend i have here as my family and all my heart valve jurnal famaily,you guys make me feel loved whenever some one sign my jurnal and encurrage me to go on.these days am feeling more pain than ugal but not feeling thyard that bad,i truly wonder if i will continue with my life after surgey.now am breaking down sloly but am not reall giving into this stress.i always wonder if i can continue with my welding job after surgey.love you all.

today i cant say that i am not feeling pain,am feeling alot of discomfort in my chest and left side.its really bad and concerning.but on the 24 of august i have a appointment with my surgen and then he will fill me in with what they are going to do with my damage valve.i am suposed to get married on the 28 of august and that is stressing me out really bad.my girlfriend dont want us to posponed the wedding at all,sometime i dont even no what to do.but all i no i just want to do this surgey and if i live i live and if not it just the way life goes.i have heard lot of good things about how the surgey allow people to feel better than they are now.and they have return to their regular lives and work.with the asseption of just bloob thinner in some cases.please continue to support each other in these life changing times.please continue to communicate with me.dont stop ok.

thanks to all have sent me words of encurragement it has been a lot to me.today i went to the river me and my girlfriend and we rafted for 6hrs and it was ruff but still i did not feel anyway as if i have a heart valve problem.but i no that it is there and need to be fixed.question? how long it takes to totally pain free,and can i have sex again,please anyone if you can answer my question it would be alot to me

it is the 5 of july and i went to work today,it was not dad i weld some stuff and lift things the same,what to do,i have to work because i have to look after my family back home in jamaica and my only son Vendray Elliott,but still i feel some pain around my back and my chest,with a little short of breath,i just want to get my surgey over with,i really dont want to live this way in discomfort.i wonder i anyone out there ever have these discomforting pian,really and trully i would really want to no how much does it cost for surgey,are does health care cover the cost of surgey?thank u all for taking time out to read my jurnal and sending me words of encouragement,thank u all.

it is the 4 of july and i am watching my girlfriend sleeping camley,and watching her making progress gettting over her misscarrage a few days ago,it was really hard for us.but we are doing better now.but unto this day i hav'ent heard from the surgen who is to call me and let me no what to do and what step to take.am still not worried about doing the surgey is bascically the recovery part i am worrying about.but i no that everything takes time,thanks to Fran and Mark for taking time out give me some encoragement,hope you guys recover fully soon.i would like to know whats its like after surgey and the night before.

hi my new family,thanks to mrs adam for this home comming jurnal.i recentally found out that i mitral valve regurgitation.but i dont get a date as yet to do my surgey.but for the moment i a in some discomfort,my chest and my lungs areas.i was concern about how i was slowing down over the years,i use to be active in sport and i really feel changes in my fitness level.my life has change totally,i do welding for a living and i wonder if i can continue with this trade after.if someone out there can give me some advise please tell me.i will keep mj jurnal updated as soon as possible