Victoria Dyring had long known she would eventually need heart surgery due to mitral insufficiency, a condition where the heart's mitral valve does not close tightly. After a collapse in her backyard, it became clear that she needed to replace the valve, and she has now had a mechanical valve implanted. According to SVT Vetenskap, Victoria Dyring described the recovery after the operation as a roller coaster.
She started recording video diaries to track her well-being. During the work on the series, she has explored the emotional turmoil around not daring to trust her heart. In SVT's new series 'Victoria's Heart', she delves into the latest research on cardiovascular diseases and her own recovery.
To wake up after an operation in an intensive care unit, you can hardly be more vulnerable. Extremely injured, completely without energy, and with a heart behaving strangely in the chest. I felt quite alone and pretty scared.
Victoria Dyring is now renovated, clear, and actually stronger than ever.
It became clear to me that you need to heal both the heart and the brain after a major heart operation. There are medical reasons for that. I had difficulty reading and writing after the operation, but you come back.
It has become clear that over 20 years of worry about the heart has left its mark. But now I am renovated and clear and actually stronger than ever.