Valve Replacement

On April 3rd at 11a Brian will be heading to the Hospital for open heart surgery to have his defective Aortic valve replaced. We had a good long talk with the surgeon today. It seems he feels that the surgery is not urgent but this is a good time to get it done. He is not likely to put it off for that much longer anyway. He will not be able to lift anything over 10 lbs for 8 weeks. Wow, that is a long time. The kids are going to have big adjustment with this. He also won't be able to drive for 4 weeks. He will probably be in the hospital for 3-5 days. I hope closer to the 3 days. He is also going to have an oblation to eliminate his A-fib. The whole surgery is going to take 4 hours. This is just a little crazy. He is worried but glad to a least have a date now and know for sure what is going to happen. Brian has decided with a little encouragement from me to go with the biologic heart valve. He could get a mechanical valve that would like last forever but he would need anticoagulants forever too and the risk of stroke or excessive bleeding is 1-2 percent a year. He does not have to worry about the biologic valve for about 15 years may be more. Also the surgeon did not seem too worried about doing another surgery down the line. He could still change to a mechanical valve at that time.

So I did weigh-in today. Yea!!!! 160 lbs. I get to use my Starbucks Gift cards this weekend. Ok, 150 and 140 here I come. I need to get running this week. I need to look at my 150 reward. I forgot what it is.