11-25-2025, 05:25 AM
(11-25-2025, 05:08 AM)Quantum12 Wrote: Wow, your brother has had a lot of work. I am happy he is alive. I am sure he is on a low salt diet.
My heart came from an 18 year old girl who died in a car crash. After the heart was put in they needed to replace a valve with a cow valve. I am very lucky.
The only med I am on is Metoprolol, its a common heart medication classified as a
beta blocker. It works by slowing the heart rate and relaxing blood vessels, which helps to improve blood flow and lower blood pressure. I don’t need blood thinners.
Durning surgery I had a stroke in my eye. My eye blocked the stroke from going to my brain. I can always feel it in my left eye but my vision is perfect.
Did your brother recover from the stroke?
Cheers Quantum12.
It depends on what you mean by recover.
The stroke was apparently massive, so he was not expected to survive.
And then we were told he would never walk or talk again.
Proved them all wrong there, although there is paralysis down the one side of his body, and one hand is pretty much useless and claw like.
But like i said, he can walk(with a limp/drag), drive, and talk to a fashion, sometimes he can be rather hard to understand if you don't know the fella.
Leads a pretty normal life, as much as can be expected.
Not sure where his heart came from, they don't generally tell recipients or families where a donated organ came from here in the UK.
Glad you pulled through also.
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