Recovering From Heart Surgery

IMPORTANT! Whoever is in charge of you going home must read Chapter One, cleverly titled Going Home, now before you go home.

What no one will tell you about surviving a heart attack and surgery.

The effects on your body, senses and mind. How you turn into a person not even you recognize and what it takes to return to normal by someone who has been there and done that.

You are scared to death. That’s ok, so were we, so was I. Hundreds of thousands of heart surgeries are successfully done every year and Congratulations, you are now but a number in that statistic.

My quadruple bypass was a miracle surgery 10+ years ago but today it’s treated like an ear wax removal procedure with a cookie cutter approach and a one size fits all recovery protocol.
Whether you were just told that you are going in for heart surgery or as recently had the surgery, I myself and all of the people who contributed their thoughts and experiences for this book, plus hundreds of thousands more who have been through what you are about to experience are living proof, ten and even twenty plus years later that everything will be OK.

By the way, if you don’t finish this book before your surgery since you will need something to do for a few days after the procedure so you can just start over from the beginning, so remember your reading glasses.

When I was a young man, a very smart guy loaned me some advice which I feel is perfect for the situation you now find yourself in. I will now pass this advice on to you under the condition that once used successfully, you keep it going by passing it along in the future where and when you see fit as I have.

Back when the pay phones were in the downstairs lobby, heart surgery, color TV and space travel were the current examples of the arriving future, waiting to be rolled in for his heart surgery, he said to me, “Don’t worry about things you have no control over. Use your energy, emotion, time and brainpower preparing for the upcoming things that you do have control over.”

You can’t do anything right now to assist in the surgery, but there are many, many things that you can do that effect in a very positive way your immediate future comfort and ease of recovery so let’s get started.