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Date: 2023-08-27  

I just got dropped off by Taxi at home following my recovery period at St. Francis Medical Center for Open Heart Surgery.

I feel pretty good. Most of the chest pain has subsided. I can get up and get around fine.

They had me get up and walk 4 times a day doing laps around the ward which was intended to help my heart to heal. I normally work about two miles a day, so this was no real problem.

They had been on blood pressure medicine (I saw my pressure drop down to 98/58 at one point), cholesterol medicine, gaut medicine (which I’m most thankful for) and Tylenol as needed. I wasn’t on Norco hardly at all.

Now, I’m home and I hope to get some rest. They had me up at 4am for the first walk. The chest incision made it next to impossible to get relaxed in bed so I hardly slept at night. After the first walk, they would sit me in a chair with a blood pressure cuff puffing every 10 minutes, and a blood sugar test (yes, the finger-poking kind) every hour since they also had be on an insulin IV drip, and full EKG rig on my chest, and two drainage tubes from my chest.

Now, all that is removed.

My meds are at the pharmacy which I can’t get to right now since my car is still parked back at Harbor UCLA. I can try and get them sent to me tomorrow and try and get down to retrieve the car.

They want me to clean and replace the dressing on my incising wound once a day — so I’ll do that in the bathroom so that cat doesn’t pounce my chest in the middle of it. I’ve got new diet rules and all kinds of stuff to go over.

But for right now… I just wanna rest.



Thanks for all your support.

[8:58 pm]

My main laptop suddenly won’t power up which is a real bummer. I have a lot of excluves original music and vocal covers on the hard drive, including the music and lyrics to a song responding to Jason Aldean’s “Try that in a Small Town.” I didn’t do anything unique to it, it was working at the hospital.

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