Tag: life
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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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