The science of opinion ...

Arrhythmia would be more correct...'skipping a beat' or so....

Due to a lack of a proper 'seal' in my aortic valve, I'd literally 'back flow'.

Tired, lack of energy...the 'pauses' were a likely side effect, unrelated but noticed during rehab.

TAVR was terrific, though.  Woke from the anesthesia feeling near normal..well, what I call normal, anyway. *G*

Some actually get to go home the following day; one went and played a round of golf. (I assume he still used a cart....)

They kept me around for 3 days, since I was considered 'experimental'.
("I'm a lab critter.....I bite.")  Certainly not because of my good looks or toleration of hospital food....*eh*

The Watchman came later, after rehab....I'm thin, so I've a visible lump in front of my left shoulder.  I asked if it's a concern about fragility.

I was told that, in one case, it stopped a .38 bullet....and still worked.

So I'll have to be very nimble, just in case... ;)

Just as I expected. atdavid attacked me personally rather than respond to my brilliant take-down of the “scientific” article he linked to in his OP. Now ask me if I was expecting anything different. It appears to me and I hope I’m not being overly judgmental but atdavid is basically saying do as I say not as I do.

Think of me as you would the caretaker Delbert Grady in The Shining. I’ve always been here.

“If I could explain it to the average Joe Blow they wouldn’t have given me the Nobel prize.”

Anyway, time to dog the walk....sunny but cold, Sunny needs her outing.

Later...

asvjerry,

Didn't Mick Jagger have something like that recently? Maybe it was a different valve.

I apologize, mentioning heart attack and pacemaker just raised an alert so I was trying to make sure you do not confuse those two. Not that I think you are not much better expert than me now, but sometimes we notice what is happening to others much more than what is happening to us.

Geez, I leave for a little while and when I come back a bromance is in full bloom. 🌺🌺🌺