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When Your Barn Catches Fire
While I don’t commute frequently, my drive is noticeably healthier when I’m filling the car with classical music rather than news or talk radio. Rachmaninoff rather than Rachel Maddow truly calms my nerves and psyche in traffic. So last week on Interstate 5, as the initial chords of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite filled my aging Subaru, the
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Turning A Corner, but Still Looking Back
Stepping on a treadmill with a heart monitor strapped to my chest, a light chill of anticipation rippled up my spine as I pushed the start button. A new phase of my heart surgery journey had commenced. In the scary days right after surgery, I tried to focus on the longer road ahead and not my
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The Gut Check of Recovery
Today’s #1 goal was to marshall the energy and brainpower to convey how the initial post-hospital phase of open heart surgery recovery is going. (Long story short: it’s freaking exhausting!) On Wednesday I mark four weeks since my surgery to replace a failing aortic valve. It also will be 18 days since I came home. In a
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Spicy Surgery and a Remarkable Recovery!
At almost three weeks post surgery I have settled into a new (temporary) normal that is way better than being in the hospital, but a long way from complete recovery. Today is 19 days since the 7-hour aortic valve replacement procedure that changed my life forever and gave me new hope for returning to my robust
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Now Expecting … Heart Surgery!
If it takes heart surgery to finally get me to begin writing, then so be it. Lord knows I have a multitude of journeys to chronicle, but for now this “breaking news” is my only focus. In March, I was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis after spending most of a weekend in Seattle Northwest Hospital undergoing
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