My Story
I was born with a VSD Ventricular Septal Defect in my heart, a leaky valve, When I was 10 I went to KillennBeck hospital in Leeds U.K, to have open heart surgery where the amazing surgeon Duncan Walker operated on me to patch my leaky valve up. I stayed in hospital for 3 weeks and was told that as an adult I would require further surgery. Fast forward 30yrs and 3 days after my 40th birthday I received a call from my Hospital L.G.I in Leeds that it was time for my next operation. This operation is going to be to replace my Aortic Valve and Aortic Root. I discovered this problem back in 2013 after a routine apt at my local Hospital Calderdale Royal in Halifax. I was referred to the cardiology specialist at Leeds who took over my case. It was found that my Aorta was large and they kept an eye on it for the next 5yrs. I had numerous procedures in that time a few being Cardioversions which were to put my heart back into normal rytham as it had gone out of ry...