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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
Thanks, Hitch. Good luck with your aorta, too! Not only is it common for girls with Turner Syndrome to have BAV, members of my family who DON'T have TS have BAV. Two of my three first cousins on my mom's side have it. I suspect my maternal grandmother's aunt had it as she died of a "heart attack" at 39, of course that was way too back in the day to say for sure.
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Howdy:
Can't claim to be as unique as that! That's
Bicuspid Aortic Valve, right? (In fact, I was always getting checked by Docs for whats-its, that thing that tall skinny folks get...can't think of the name now, the heart thing...) I seem to just have plain-old, plain-old boring clogged up arteries, and apparently, my aorta, too, which is the sore point. (And, man, you want to talk about PISSED. I eat right--never touch fast-food or that crap. I can count on one hand the number of times I've eaten something like MacDonald's, etc., in the past 5 years or more. I do
occasionally, 2-3x year, get a hand-tossed pizza. I have exercised the vast majority of my life, cardio, etc.
That's just downright damn irritating, arteriosclerosis, for s**t's sake. Of course, given what you deal with, I shouldn't be bitching.)
I was scheduled for a test on that literally the day after Mr. Hitch's heart-explosion, so of course, that got put right off. But, I'm going to head back in. I see how incredibly exhausted and dopey the heart and BP meds make him, (now naps 2-3x daily, which he has NEVER done), and
I can't manage that and the business, too, so I
literally can't AFFORD to have a heart attack. Assuming I survived, and all that. (That's me--screw my health, I'm always thinking "can I AFFORD to be sick?????"--what a dope!)
Hitch