Category: Heart surgery
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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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