I had an echocardiogram and consultation yesterday at Hopkins. I'm glad to know the heart issues of the summer are behind me :-) The new valve is doing just what it was intended to do, and the pressures that had been high are where they belong.
My lungs seem to be healing well and haven't held me back. While I haven't yet returned to my normal exercise level, I did enjoy a superb 58 mile bike ride on Saturday. It's great to feel more and more like myself. I also feel lucky how relatively easy my clots were to deal with... I've met plenty of people who had more serious complications than I did.
We now resume focus on the rest of the heart (left side), especially the aortic root (where the aorta connects with the heart). Docs will review recent and historical CT's and echocardiograms to see how things have changed. The hope, of course, is "not much".
Next regular checkup is in March. Thanks for listening in, and for all your kind words.
