I have now retuned from the most horrible week I can imagine

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33. Your in good company...

I’m 68 my story starts about 12 years ago. 4 maybe 5 heart attacks never went to hospital because I just hurt in my RIGHT shoulder, very, very uncomfortable. Did not know those were heart attacks. Downed an aspirin and went on, that action probably saved me. At the time I had no idea aspirin was a first response.
Well all that eventually led to an unexpected stroke, little one called a T.I.A. they resolve themselves pretty quickly. But...hospital was my home for the next month.

I have had bad circulation for a very long time, family traits... what can you do? I had a vein stripping done when I was in my 40’s so there was no grafting material to get out of my legs.
They had to take a vein from my left arm and plugged mammary arteries into my heart. Quite inventive!
I was in the Veterans hospital in Ann Arbor Michigan which couples up with U of M hospital next door. I was lucky and my doctor was head of the transplant team there.

Got a bone infection in my sternum and stayed in hospital on an antibiotics drip for a month.

Three years later I was back at hospital to get my aortic aneurysm fixed from kidneys to groin a new aorta!

This year was my hip replacement surgery.

I’ve never felt better. Ten years after the bypass my heart is stronger than it was when I was in my early fifties. It took time to recover but each time I learned a little from before and came out better.

These next couple months are all about you. Try to keep a good attitude and not get to far down. Exercise lightly at first, take your time but do something...ask your doctor what may be best for you, everybody’s different. Walking is the best exercise you can do at this time. Low impact but gets everything moving again.
Your endurance will probably suck for a while but go with it and do just a little more every day it’ll come back.

Good luck. Get healthy.