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Diagnosis: Mitral Regurgitation, Atrial Fibrillation

Member Since: August 9, 2016

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7 years ago (May 22, 2018)

Was in the middle of mitral valve repair surgery one year ago today! Here's what a one year old scar looks like :) Thanks & best wishes everyone!

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Rita Savelis

Wow! Have to look hard to see the scar....or maybe I was just drawn to the shiny heart instead!

Lilly Black

Barbara, the scar looks great...hardly noticeable! ðŸ˜Š

Penelope Bodek

Holy smokes! I thought that was a before picture. You healed great. What's your secret?

Anna Jones

Thank you. That is an amazing picture. You have to look really hard to see your scar. I'm so happy for you that you are doing well.

Chris Purvis

Wow thats looks really good! Canâ€™t even see it.

Civita Fahey

Looks Great Barbara.. mine is still red! but then the scar from my foot surgery is just getting light and that was 3 years ago.. UGH.. I have way too much pink in my skin... you would think having been born in Italy I would have some olive tones.. hahaha..... Read more.

Veronica Gunthner

Amazing! Gives me hope!

Michelle E

Barbara that looks great! Nice to know we can make 'friends' with our scars - they are just part of who we are now, with a survivor's story to go with them!

Debbie Chatzky

Thatâ€™s amazing!!

Barbara Wood

Thanks! I had a pediatric surgeon - guess he knew how to take the tiny stitches, & I followed Ritas advice & tried to keep it covered in the sun. Oh yeah, my cleavage scar...nice while it lasted:)

Melissa A

Did you put anything on it after surgery? That scar looks amazing!

Carolyn Newell

Looks great! Very impressive. xo

Barbara Wood

Melissa, just regular body lotion - Burts Bees

Barbara Wood uploaded a photo

8 years ago (June 17, 2017)

My scar at 3 1/2 weeks. ( that's not cleavage, that's my scar:)) I had a full sternotomy- it healed so fast!

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Rita Savelis

wow! It does look like cleavage! And it looks good!

Andria Pugh

looking good barbara

Wanda Mroz

Looks great!

Jill Krajnovich

Looks really good!

Barbara Laurie

Barbara!!! Fantastic! Wow kiddo, you. Did. Great! Yay! It takes awhile (I thought) for the chest to calm down, swelling, etc. I was on my back for 6 weeks so, I'm not a good example, but wow, I think you look great, and you have good color in your face,... Read more.

Barbara Wood

Thank you all! Marie, I had my chest xray...it showed a small pleural effusion that he said will be absorbed, otherwise the lungs were clear, they were happy with it.

Soggy Rodent

Barbara, with the pleural effusion, were you having a hard time sleeping? I also had a pleural effusion and felt like I was jumping out of my skin with oxygen hunger every time I laid down. I found it was easier to get oxycodone than it was to get oxygen...

Barbara Wood

Yes, Soggy, I've been having a very hard time sleeping & the jumping out of your skin is a very good description of the way I feel when I hit the bed. I'm not sure what causes it- afib, pleural effusion, the amiodorone I've recently been prescribed. I'll be curious... Read more.

Sally Strand

Hi Barbara sorry to hear about your setback but you are looking good and I love your attitude. I am also just 4 weeks past mitral valve repair and patience is something I am working on too!

Barbara Wood

Hi Sally :) Yes we do learn a lot about ourselves during this adjustment period, don't we? And I thought it was going to be so easy!! Best wishes on your recovery, keep us posted on how it is going...

Melissa Houser

Hi Barbara - the scar looks great! Sorry to hear you have been short of breath (possibly from pleural effusion?) and had persistent a fib. I pray for quick healing and resolutions to these problems. I see cardiology tomorrow, so I will post an update for my 4 week mark... Read more.

Linda Richards

you look great!!

Barbara Wood uploaded a photo

8 years ago (June 1, 2017)

My scar, day 10

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Catie B

Looks very, very good!

Adam Pick

Lookin' good!!!

Phyllis Petersen

That looks really good!

Jill Krajnovich

Your scar looks great!

Unknown

Where is it?ðŸ˜‰ It looks great!

Barbara Wood

Thanks! I'm so f-ing proud of it! My surgeon does pediatric heart surgery & he rolls it inward & stitches under the skin so it hardly shows- it's such a dainty scar!

Cathleen Weed

Looks great ðŸ˜Šâ¤ï¸