Some of you may have seen my post
that I put up probably about three days ago or so from the Cleveland Clinic I
went up there to have surgery to repair my mitro valve and it was incredibly
successful I feel great the surgery was last Monday so it's been a week now but
I have a long scar sternotomy this is something I've known about for basically
as long as 2016 I've been following it go to cardiologist every 6 months or so
and then about I'd say four months ago or so I went at a heart MRI and my
particular valve has this thing called regurgitation which is a leaking and it
got into this severe mode and when I started seeing my cardiologist for it
eight years ago he was like well you know it's uh you might need surgery in 3
to 5 years then five years go by and then he says well it might be 3 to 5 years
I said that's what you said 5 years ago and then he said well eventually you
will need surgery for it okay cool when it hit that severe think about these things
and when you go through these procedures they stop your heart open up your
sternum I mean sometimes they can do robotically they couldn't for me uh but
you go on a heart lung bypass machine and I'm 62 so it's like this is the first
time my heart and lungs have stopped at any moment in 62 years right it's kind
of a profound thing but you really don't think about that you go in you do the surgery
you're out and then you're back and then it's over I was able to get up out of
bed and do stuff pretty tests I don't know probably 10 days before and I walked
nine miles one of the days.
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