Ann: FDA Approves Early Feasibility Study for DurAVR THV System, page-40

Well, with respect, it bemuses me that people like you can have no consideration for those of us that got on this wild ride very early and went through endless frustration of crap, after crap, after crap, after crap, with this company, in its various incarnations, evolutions and pursuits.

Gloat about you and your mates because you lucked up and joined at the right time. How easy it is for you to sagely say "you should have averaged down". Spare just a thought for those of us who had to endure "10 years ago" and more, who again and again and again, threw hard earned into what was enthusiastically promoted as "the next big medical thing" but turned out to be, at that time, a money sucking abyss, where the reward each time was actually a cold hard slap in the face.

Coulda and Shoulda are two words that are easy to say, but you can only turn the other financial cheek so many times my friend. What would you have done when your confidence and trust in a company was shot to bits, time after time. Would you just keep shelling out, shelling out and shelling out?

I can see a light on the AVR horizon now and apart from significantly improving lives, I hope it can finally, give us ALL the returns which have been alluded to, like a dangling carrot, for such a long, long, long time.

Rant over. Go drink wine!

V.