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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2022 20:27:31 GMT
I have a pig valve. I had endocarditis caused by a blood infection which hit my bicuspid aortic valve. They had to replace the aortic valve with either a mechanical value or a biological valve, which is usually a pig heart valve. My surgeon preferred a biological valve because it only required that I take an aspirin daily, where as the mechanical valve requires a blood thinner like coumadin. She advised me to go with the biological valve. Had I not had the valve replaced I would've died. Transplants should generally be for saving the life of the person, but there are now cosmetically sound reasons for doing transplants, such as face transplants on people who were disfigured for whatever reason. Just out of curiosity, are anti-rejection drugs needed for something like a pig heart valve?
I wouldn't want to die for want of something like that, but I'd never feel right about bacon or sausage again, and having to give it up would be possibly the kind of lifelong penance I need to save my soul No there is no rejection problem having the pig's heart valve. Don't ask me why not, but I don't feel any different than before the surgery except that I gained more energy, as my original valve had a murmur. In other words, it wasn't pumping as well as it should've been, which is the reason why the blood infection attacked it. My body merely thought the infection was being caused by the faulty valve, so it attacked it and began destroying it. I was in the hospital for a week and a half with high fever because of the blood infection. Once they got that relatively under control, then I could have the open heart surgery. It was just 2.5 years ago and God gave me a growing experience from it for sure. As far as bacon and sausage go, the pig was bred for the organs, but why let the rest go to waste.
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Post by homeschooldad on Jan 11, 2022 22:28:01 GMT
Just out of curiosity, are anti-rejection drugs needed for something like a pig heart valve?
I wouldn't want to die for want of something like that, but I'd never feel right about bacon or sausage again, and having to give it up would be possibly the kind of lifelong penance I need to save my soul No there is no rejection problem having the pig's heart valve. Don't ask me why not, but I don't feel any different than before the surgery except that I gained more energy, as my original valve had a murmur. In other words, it wasn't pumping as well as it should've been, which is the reason why the blood infection attacked it. My body merely thought the infection was being caused by the faulty valve, so it attacked it and began destroying it. I was in the hospital for a week and a half with high fever because of the blood infection. Once they got that relatively under control, then I could have the open heart surgery. It was just 2.5 years ago and God gave me a growing experience from it for sure. As far as bacon and sausage go, the pig was bred for the organs, but why let the rest go to waste.
I might have to look into that. I could always use more energy at this age, and just yesterday my doctor recommended an ultrasound of my heart, as he fears that I might have done myself damage smoking earlier in life --- no problems to report, he is just extra-vigilant about me (mother hen).
So you never know. I may have tales to tell yet. All in Divine Providence.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2022 22:36:05 GMT
No there is no rejection problem having the pig's heart valve. Don't ask me why not, but I don't feel any different than before the surgery except that I gained more energy, as my original valve had a murmur. In other words, it wasn't pumping as well as it should've been, which is the reason why the blood infection attacked it. My body merely thought the infection was being caused by the faulty valve, so it attacked it and began destroying it. I was in the hospital for a week and a half with high fever because of the blood infection. Once they got that relatively under control, then I could have the open heart surgery. It was just 2.5 years ago and God gave me a growing experience from it for sure. As far as bacon and sausage go, the pig was bred for the organs, but why let the rest go to waste.
I might have to look into that. I could always use more energy at this age, and just yesterday my doctor recommended an ultrasound of my heart, as he fears that I might have done myself damage smoking earlier in life --- no problems to report, he is just extra-vigilant about me (mother hen).
So you never know. I may have tales to tell yet. All in Divine Providence.
I had a heart murmur which my doctor didn't hear until I was about 50 years old. It's generic and my younger brother has the same thing. We were told to take an antibiotic before having any dental work, but later the doctors said it wasn't necessary so I stopped. My brother continued on the advice from his doctor. The rest is history.
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Post by homeschooldad on Jan 11, 2022 22:40:16 GMT
I might have to look into that. I could always use more energy at this age, and just yesterday my doctor recommended an ultrasound of my heart, as he fears that I might have done myself damage smoking earlier in life --- no problems to report, he is just extra-vigilant about me (mother hen).
So you never know. I may have tales to tell yet. All in Divine Providence.
I had a heart murmur which my doctor didn't hear until I was about 50 years old. It's generic and my younger brother has the same thing. We were told to take an antibiotic before having any dental work, but later the doctors said it wasn't necessary so I stopped. My brother continued on the advice from his doctor. The rest is history. I hope it's obvious that my comments were largely tongue-in-cheek, and I did not mean to trivialize your situation. I'm not going to need anything done to my aorta. I was just talking mess.
The Divine Providence part, though, was dead-serious.
I pray for you to have length of years in health and happiness.
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