- Nov 2, 2006
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With just a couple days left in 2009, I'm really anxious to have the New Year started. 2009 has been a really bad year for me. Back in 2008, I lost a bunch of weight, joined a gym, and was planning to get into more adventurous activities such as scuba diving, ski diving, and some traveling for 2009. Well that kinda all fell apart when some health problems surfaced during my scuba certification.
I started 2009 needing open-heart surgery for a bad mitral valve. I had to cancel my trip to Cozumel, and instead head to California for my surgery and then 3 months of being laid out for recovery, then another month of light duty and rehab. I get back to Alaska, get clearance to go back to work and get back to my plan: Plan a trip to Hawaii and finish up my scuba certification. Looking forward to a great summer and things fall apart again. Find out my repair job failed or had been failing when I was on my last certification dive. Again, I needed open-heart surgery, and this time, they just went ahead and replaced my mitral valve with a mechanical valve. Another 4 months in California...
Well, I'm back to work. It's funny that I'm back in Alaska pretty much at the same time all this started at the end of 2008. I'm not sure what this experience has taught me. I'm happy to be alive, and recoveries have been relatively trouble free. The first surgery, there was a little scare where the ER thought I was having a heart attack and airlifted me to the hospital that performed my surgery. That was kinda fun.
I know now...I'm never going to plan a vacation ahead of time because everytime i do, I need heart surgery. Diving may be out for now. My doctors haven't definitively said that I can't, but they highly don't recommend it. I'm kinda glad I'm in the middle of winter, so I'm going to take it easy until summer gets here. Going to work on my diet now that I don't have my mom cooking me 3 meals a day. Then I have to get used to the whole coumadin regimen and this incessant clicking in my head... Life has changed a bit for me so I guess I'm just looking forward to having a better 2010.
I started 2009 needing open-heart surgery for a bad mitral valve. I had to cancel my trip to Cozumel, and instead head to California for my surgery and then 3 months of being laid out for recovery, then another month of light duty and rehab. I get back to Alaska, get clearance to go back to work and get back to my plan: Plan a trip to Hawaii and finish up my scuba certification. Looking forward to a great summer and things fall apart again. Find out my repair job failed or had been failing when I was on my last certification dive. Again, I needed open-heart surgery, and this time, they just went ahead and replaced my mitral valve with a mechanical valve. Another 4 months in California...
Well, I'm back to work. It's funny that I'm back in Alaska pretty much at the same time all this started at the end of 2008. I'm not sure what this experience has taught me. I'm happy to be alive, and recoveries have been relatively trouble free. The first surgery, there was a little scare where the ER thought I was having a heart attack and airlifted me to the hospital that performed my surgery. That was kinda fun.
I know now...I'm never going to plan a vacation ahead of time because everytime i do, I need heart surgery. Diving may be out for now. My doctors haven't definitively said that I can't, but they highly don't recommend it. I'm kinda glad I'm in the middle of winter, so I'm going to take it easy until summer gets here. Going to work on my diet now that I don't have my mom cooking me 3 meals a day. Then I have to get used to the whole coumadin regimen and this incessant clicking in my head... Life has changed a bit for me so I guess I'm just looking forward to having a better 2010.
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