Thursday, June 21, 2012

Robots at the Cleveland Clinic

Tomorrow it will be 24 years from my first open-heart surgery, and today is 16 weeks from my third one. Most likely I'll have more in the future, hopefully not soon. 


Check out these wicked cool robots at the Cleveland Clinic who scuttle things underground, making healthcare better for docs and patients. 





When people say that we can't afford better healthcare, sounds like we don't have enough wood in the world to make desks because computers will just get bigger and bigger and bigger and we should give up making computers.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Alligator Hunter Floyd!

Here's my dad after hunting alligators. He's the one on the right (this is from maybe 15 years ago).


Thursday, June 14, 2012

15 weeks!

Today is 15 weeks post-surgery for me, and probably only in the past week or so that I feel like I'm coming back online to myself. It's slow but steady.

An example: I went to the beach with friends a couple of weeks ago - I didn't go on the beach other than 5 mins to take pics - and sat in the living room or deck the whole weekend. It took me almost a week with a lot of napping to get my energy back up to where it was before. 

The rehab nurse is redoing her plan since she used to working mostly with heart attack patients my issues are different. I struggle with the exercises and have shortness of breath still, but each day is a little better!

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Little Darth Vader has open-heart surgery

♥ ‘I don’t have a choice. I have to go through it. I don’t like it and it’s still scary — but I have to. So I think I might as well go through it with a good attitude.’ - 


Congenital heart defect survivor Max Page (aka Little Darth Vader). 


Little Darth Vader to have open heart surgery


Join us in wishing Max the best! (he has the same defect - Tetralogy of Fallot - that I have)

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Is fear holding you back?

♥ Lazerow, who was born with a serious heart defect had a singular message to deliver: learn to live without fear. He had an emergency valve replacement in his heart. (I really needed to see this today; I'm struggling, hard day at rehab, emotional, and generally exhausted. It's tough.)

This week, Buddy Media, a social enterprise software company, was acquired by cloud computing giant Salesforce.com for a staggering $689 million. 


Shortly after he signed the deal, Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow made this inspiring YouTube video