Anyone here have mitral valve surgery?

[kickingandscreaming]

I have a leaky mitral valve that is starting to cause issues and threaten my ability to live.  I see my cardiologist on Wednesday and he will probably tell me to get ready for surgical repair.  If I'm lucky I'll get minimally-invasive catheter base surgery rather than open heart surgery which is really majorly major.  Mick Jagger recently had similar valve repair (and he's jumping around now as if he were a kid.)

My symptoms are serious shortness of breath, weakness and fatigue.  I can barely exert myself at all at this point.  I'm getting very worried that I might die before having a chance to fix it.

Has anyone here had any experience with this?  TY