Having some fun with the new Frankenheart.
First, all players who have viewed it (or been inside it) say my heart chambers and existing valves were all in great shape, especially so on very the last chamber that had been pumping through the stenotic (severe) restriction that my old 2 petal valve (and resulting reduced opening) had made it pump through. The last chamber muscle is hyper-sized somewhat and the old meat valve itself was thickened and stiff compared to the rest of the valves and was relatively slow to shut completely -- which by the end it wasn't even really doing completely, BYW.
My heart had grown up hyperstyle (oversize) to make up that long high pressure final stroke that delivered blood volume X over more time (and at higher velocity) through the restricted meat valve. Remember, I have had this condition since I was a baby .....
My resting rhythm was 80-90 long beats a minute. My last muscle chamber had to clamp and squeeze for a long time, in other words, to move the blood out with the old defective valve.
Replace the defective meat valve with a FAST to completely open, yet complete closes instantly type mechanical valve --- now suddenly my heart says "beat" and the feedback from contraction cycle says"Done already" because the effective opening past the valve is over twice as big and opens twice as fast. The blood charge is simply moved on out of there instantly.
That big ol last chamber feels like it never even really gets a grip on the charge of blood because it is out of there already. There is no long squeeze period any more.
Actual pulse form is now very small and very abrupt, yet also very light compared to the past.
I have a heart that at full snoozy rest that barely seems to beat (yet moves the same amount of blood).
Give me a surprise or a shock and it revs up like a 4 stroke GSXr in first gear.
My new "normal" resting beats per min is 114 to 120 very small quick pulses -- I now have a humming bird heart.
When it digs in good it goes up to 140+ and I start to see the little dancing at the edges of your vision thingies that used to indicate high blood pressure.
When this happens I back off on whatever is doing that ..... too much sewn together stuff is leaking a tiny bit at those pressures.
It is a Frankenheart, after all. I can call it up with an act of will inside the space of time of a single deep inhalation, which is kinda neat to do.
Play with the nursing staff a little bit I did.
Nurse was being all fussy and rough with my blood pressure cuff, so I'd hulk it while the cuff was pumping up and force the cuff to do a reset, then do a bruce banner and relax on her on the next try, which made the cuff do another reset in the other direction.