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Your situation was similar to mine, I’m 5’ 6” and my ascending aortic aneurysm was 5.2 (also bicuspid valve) My surgeon recommended as soon as appropriate surgery (I had just had a leg fracture repair and they want you walking after heart surgery), I had my surgery 3 months after my leg surgery. I was in very good physical shape and my surgeon gave me a 99.9% probability of not having any complications. Surgery is painful (not as much as leg fracture though) and you feel like crap for periods of time (they manhandle you heart so everything gets inflamed and needs time to recover). I was out of the hospital in less than a week and back to work in 3. Life is back to normal, just need to get the valve checked every year, it will have to be replaced at some point. Let me know if you want more insights into the recovery
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Thank you for the info. I’m amazed you were back to work in three weeks!
Both of the surgeons I consulted with have told me that the risk of not having the surgery at this point is higher than having the surgery. So I’ll go for it, I’m trying not to think about the risks of the surgery and focus on what a relief it will be to not have to worry about it. It doesn’t sound like they will replace my valve as it is working fine. He has talked about either repairing the aortic root or possibly replacing it.
I’ll just be glad to have this over with.