I am not sure what symptoms you are having apart from the tachycardia and inability to exercise. it is rare for somebody to have open heart surgery simply to repair the pulmonic and tricuspid valve: This is usually seen only in patients with congenital heart disease. The first that he is to perform our own transthoracic echocardiogram so we can see how severe the valve leakage in what the mechanism is.it is possible that he would have under diagnosed congenital heart disease that may require surgery but this is not likely. You mentioned that you had a staph infection after surgery:I wonder if this infection affected your heart and cause the valve to leak. If this is the case this disorders caused endocarditis and then he will likely need surgery to repair or replace the valves. The decision to replace the valves is made by the surgeon and depends on what the cause of the valve damage is. Valve repair is obviously always preferable to valve replacement, but replacement of valves sometimes can be done without the use of Coumadin as sometimes we can use tissue valves.
If you search on valve replacement, you should come up with a great website. The terms and conditions of this forum do not permit me to give you the name, but it should come up. There is a great forum with lots and lots of information. Lots of great folks to help.
Good luck with everything!
also wanted to add: I feel nauseas and have really bad diareah ever since starting the atenenolol ...is that ok is it my body getting used to it or is it from the heart issue? thank you