Joshua's Posts

I had my yearly follow up with the surgeon today (almost actually 2 years since July 2016) He said everything looks incredible like it should. And he brought up the fact that when this valve needs replacing they will 100% do it via catheter. So I am feeling so much relief even though that is 10 years down the road. But he did say the replacement of the replacement (so the 3rd heart surgery) would go back to open heart and if I needed a 4th it would go back to catheter. But in 8-10 years when I need a replacement for my first valve medical stuff should be pretty advanced from today! Updates from my website are coming. I travel back to my friends cabin in the rocky mountains next month and then in June down to San Antonio again for a week with some of my favorite people. I am also working on a trip to San Francisco and maybe even sneak in a trip to portland or seattle too this year. The site is Trimbergertravels.com and you can find it on facebook to under the same name. I post new updates to that page and distribute it out to FB world that way as well.

In honor of the 2nd national valve disease day I thought I'd give an update. My year follow up ended up being my 1.7 year follow up but the good news was my echo was flawless still. It was so good that my cardiologist said I can stop taking the BP meds over the next two months. We think that was causing exercise issues as the first 20-30 mins I would get my heart rate high I would feel awful. No oxygen to my legs, exhaustion, no stamina, or power. What they think was happening is the BP med is designed to artificially keep my heart rate down so it was working to suppress it when I was trying to raise it which caused unpleasantness. I have played 2 hockey games on the lower dosage as I work my way off of it and I feel so much better exercising! As I mentioned before I started a travel story website Trimbergertravels.com where I have started documenting my travels. I just got back from Los Angeles, San Diego, and Tijuana. Next week I head to Atlanta and Alabama. I am also working on planning trips back out to Colorado and a new destination in San Francisco! So if you are looking for something to do give my site a read as they go into great detail of the things I did on each trip!

Its been a while since I posted here, but I am 1.5 years post aortic valve replacement. I think I am doing well. I had a 3 month MRSA infection that we don't think was heart related but other then that I have been great! After a rough year of recovering in 2016, I set out to make 2017 a travel year taking 9 trips out of the DFW area. After a year of people asking me to share stories, I finally made a blog! For anyone having a rough time, curious about my story, or anyone needing to distract from their recovery time by living vicariously through me, check out my posts. This is the heart surgery post, but I have a lot of post surgery travel posts as well. https://trimbergertravels.squarespace.com/home/2018/1/4/open-heart-surgery-12-july-2016