Long time no see, Amigos!
You may have wondered where I wandered off to – if I was lost in the desert or somthin.’ That guess wouldn’t be far off; I’d been feeling progressively worse all summer (low energy, short of breath, tightness in my chest) and by July 28 I was feeling bad enough that it was time for the emergency room.
They ran some tests, tried to unplug me with an angioplasty and found out that my aortal arteries were about 98 percent blocked. Y’all, I wasn’t really surviving on 2 percent arterial flow – my body had grown some corollaries (additional blood vessels) but the situation was bad. The right one {which had 6 stents in it) was completely blocked, the center was at 98 percent, and the left one had disappeared all together. They had to do something drastic.
So on August 1 I had open-heart surgery. It’s been a climb up from there, I still don’t have an abundance of energy and I’ve lost a lot of strength but I’M ALIVE. And I haven’t felt short of breath even once since the procedure.
I’m deeply thankful for the Affordable Health Care Act – if it wasn’t in place before my near fatal walk across Chinatown (I’ll post photos on that later) there’s no way I could have gotten insurance. Big shout out to my cardiologist, Sanjay Sharma and the cardiac surgery team from Los Angeles Heart Surgery especially my girl Crystal Rene de Cotret (that's us on the bottom) and Dr. Randall Roberts. And most of all a huge thank you to the whole staff at Glendale Adventist Hospital. Those people saved my life – LITERALLY.
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