http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/01/01/health-and-family/medical-update/heart-health-heart-disease/522.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=522 Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/01/01/health-and-family/medical-update/heart-health-heart-disease/522.html/comment-page-1#comment-399396 Marylyn D Adams Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:45:22 +0000 http://72.3.135.59/wordpress/?p=522#comment-399396 I had minimally-invasive Aortic heart Valve replacement in July 2011…….Accompanying the operation, evidently, was a small (thank God) stroke on the left side….I had no idea that if I didn’t have it done the sternotomy way, i would have less risk of a stroke…..Noone in my family ever had a stroke….aNyway I was/am a professional pianist and computer researcher and so after 4-5 months I had worked back my left hand to do pretty much what i had done up to the day of the operation…but my left leg and foot have grown continaully worse…I did rehab for about a year, exercising on recumbent bikes, etc…and now have gradually weaned myself away from that but now the other leg is starting to be bad also……One man a few months ago asked me if I’d had trouble with my legs since my operation as he had had! I was stymied and said only with the stroke leg….Now i am wondering what in the world i can do…Have had arterial and venous dopplers..MRIs. Cardiac ultrasounds and carotid one too…no sign of any clots or blocked arteries or anything….How can I stem this problem???? I can barely walk now….72 and have been a fasst-paced woman…don’t want that to stop yet! Please help!!!

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