Problem is that with TAVR there is no chest cutting involved. I was out of the hospital in three days. I could not have survived another chest cutting.
And it is a major breakthrough. Pray that if you ever need it the technology will even be much more advanced.
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I’m trying to get my bovine valve to last as long as possible so my next one can be done by catheter. It was implanted in 2012 and in 2015 I was told I already had severe stenosis (I could hear it and feel it under the right conditions) and would need surgery at the first sign of symptoms. I started taking vitamin K2 and the stenosis cleared up. My doctors won’t acknowledge it happened. My cardiologist even told me to stop taking the K2. You can imagine what I told him. I won that argument.