Another Surgery

October 15th 2017 9:50am

My mom told me that my grandma’s appointment on Monday with Dr. McGuire went alright. They told her that she would need another surgery to repair the valve, they gave her two options an open heart surgery or a TAVR (Transcatheter aoritc valve replacement), the TAVR is much less invasive, but it is relatively new in the states. Another problem with TAVR is that the process for it being a candidate for it are relatively long, but Dr. McGuire said he would see if he could get the process started. I am excited that we have found a long term solution to fix the problem, but at the same time I am disappointed that she needs another surgery a little over four years since she got her first open heart surgery. They told us she would not even need to think about this happening for at least 10 years but clearly they were wrong. Everyone is different so I am trying not to be too pessimissic, but I am pretty frustrated with everything going on. Dr. McGuire has not been too good at keeping us in the loop so that is aggravating me because I feel like he dodges questions and is not very thorough. Why is he not concerned that her vlave went bad already if he said in 2013 that is should last for 10 years? I will update again soon.