I just spoke with my brother. He was back down to FL and consulted with the specialist where he had been treated before, and the news isn't all that great. Without surgery and a valve replacement, he probably only has a year left. They wanted him to stay and have surgery done right away, but he elected to go back to NC and get things in order first. He will go back to FL and have an aortic stent on 4/28, and the following day will have the valve replacement- open heart surgery since his arteries are too constricted for them to thread thru with the new valve. I just don't have a good feeling at all about all of this. I pray that I'm wrong. Please remember him in your prayers - I think he really needs all that he can get.
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