I wrote a couple of months ago about a problem with dad’s new heart valve.

There’s been further tests which have shown that nothing has changed and the surgeon at the specialist heart hospital didn’t want to see him again as the risks could be too high. Dad’s got stronger physically since his heart operation and he recovered from that one very well.

Now dad’s received a letter from the specialist heart hospital saying that the valve that was put in was most likely faulty (there are problems with most of the valves in a batch from which his came). Will the surgeon actually do anything when he sees him or will he just say that it’s best left as it is? Why can’t life be a little more straightforward sometimes?