Written By: Adam Decide, Affected person Advocate, Creator & Web site Founder
Revealed: September 9, 2024
Listening to from coronary heart valve sufferers about their success tales continues to be considered one of my favourite components of working HeartValveSurgery.com. This time, it was Deborah Ogilvie that introduced an ear-to-ear smile to my face. As you may learn under, Deborah simply had an aortic valve reoperation carried out by Dr. Alfredo Trento at Cedars-Sinai Medical Heart.
A “Night time & Day” Expertise Says Deborah…
Hello Adam!
As soon as once more, I thanks a lot in your work on behalf of all us coronary heart valve sufferers. It’s a true blessing. As a consequence of your web site, I discovered Dr. Alfredo Trento and had my second aortic valve alternative on August 1st at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles. The primary valve I acquired in March, 2014, had sadly deteriorated and I used to be very apprehensive in having a second aortic valve alternative. Dr. Trento assured me that each one would go nicely (it did) and I used to be launched on August seventh.
The distinction between the 2 procedures was evening and day… Sure, that dramatic!
I used to be in quite a lot of ache once I was launched to go residence after the primary surgical procedure and I continued to be uncomfortable throughout the restoration. Then, my incision turned contaminated and I wanted a wound-vac for six weeks. I went right into a horrible bout of despair and it took me over a yr to start to return out of it. Thank goodness I lastly discovered a very good psychiatrist and a few meds that labored and slowly got here again to life. It was an terrible expertise throughout plus my scar healed into an unpleasant scar because of the an infection.
Quick ahead to right now once I met with Marion McRae who’s Dr. Trento’s nurse practitioner. I had a chest x-ray, echocardiogram and EKG previous to seeing her. Marion reviewed the assessments with me. She was more than happy to see how nicely my incision had healed and he or she was very proud of the take a look at outcomes, saying that I may now see my common heart specialist and not needed to drive to Los Angeles for future appointments.
Lengthy story brief, I used to be utterly stunned and grateful for Dr. Trento’s experience, plus he mentioned I did a “good job”!
Please let your readers know the way very a lot I like to recommend Dr. Trento and the actually nice expertise I had!!!
Yet one more factor… I expressed to Marian how involved I used to be that I’d go into one other despair after my second aortic valve surgical procedure. Marian informed me that she would see what she may do. True to her phrase, I solely had at some point the place I couldn’t take my treatment. I’m so grateful.
Hope that is useful to your readers! Thanks one million to you, Adam!
Regards,
Deborah E Ogilvie