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https://finn.lesueur.nz
Re sport: I'm not too concerned about it, honestly. I do a lot of backcountry adventuring, rock climbing and pack rafting and I'm not about to stop because of an elevated increase bleed risk. I won't push it right to the edge, but I'll keep enjoying life.
Re diet: I agree! Drastically altering my diet isn't something I particularly want to do. I'm quite happy to adjust my dose as necessary.
As for the annoying: nah. It never bothered me, although I've been told that some people find it hard to get used to. Apparently, I made a groan of realisation in ICU post-surgery when my partner described the high pitch metallic clock/watch ticking noise to my parents to help them identify it. My partner pretends to be annoyed by it, but she doesn't _really_ mind.
The mechanical valve was the best option for me as an active young person because it should last my whole life. Tissue values wear out in about ~15 years from what I've read. Sometimes closer to 10 if you are an active person. The warfarin and INR management is a little bit of a bummer, but I was provided with an INR testing device free of charge, which was rad.
I also wrote a blog post[2] about some of my experiences, although I've yet to write anything about the time post-op.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_procedure
[2]: https://finn.lesueur.nz/posts/a-heart-murmur/> So, a lengthy discussion began about what to do instead. Earlier this summer, the CSSWG debated between Option 1, Option 2 and Option 3. Of those, Option 3 won. Since then, two more options have been proposed, Option 4 and Option 5. If you remember various details discussed across 53+ issues, put all of those older ideas aside. At this point, we are only debating between Option 3, 4 and 5, as described in this article through the set of examples below.
The video is well worth a watch because it gives insight into the origin of the words and the deeper cultural meaning of them to the tangata whenua (indigenous people) of New Zealand.
> ... to ensure that an up-to-date version of our dataset is easily available for those who need it, and will work to improve its readability and reduce its size so there is less friction for end users...
It does, notably, have an integration problem because the rest of the DHB services don't use it.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074378185/davos-man-is-an-an...
Mostly a way for me to journal about hiking/tramping and about the books I read.
I actually made a little script that does just this. It’s pretty dinky but works a charm on a couple of sites I run.