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recovery
I am home, back in Reno with a big ole scar down the middle of my chest and a new list of pills to take. This will I think be the final post in the Heart Surgery Odyssey series. The basic outline of my post-op recovery overseas was to be a week in the hospital, [...]
the Operation
Well, here we are, the day before the big day. There is one more test this morning, some kind of sonogram-ish thing to check the condition of my cardioid arteries, and I am good to go. In the evening the barber shows up for my full body shave. He was a funny little dude that [...]
Tourist Interlude
Saturday May 23 (still working on the travelogue part of this below) This is a new-ish hospital (five years old) out in the far suburbs – the countryside really – and they are working hard to attract an international clientele. It is right on the Sea of Marmara, my new favorite place, and every room [...]
pre-op
It was difficult to start the original blog until I had some kind of plan to report. Otherwise, all I would have had to say was “boy I sure am fucked and let me whine about it for a while”, which is a little boring. But once the medical tourist plan going, it was [...]
almost time…
“hi, my name is John. I’m going to Turkey in a few days …. for a heart operation.” My public presentation of “things” has been morphing lately. It started three weeks ago when I visited Martha in good ole Marin County. As luck would have it Vinyl was playing a show on a funky old [...]
almost eight weeks