Adding Insult to Injury

As I shared a week or so ago, I underwent an angiogram that found some really bad stuff and will require open heart bypass surgery in a week and a half.

Yes, I’m a little scared. But I won’t bore you any further with that one. It’s going to be a gnarly ride. I know I’ll come out aces on the other side.

Or… (cue morbid humor) I won’t know.

Anyway. To add insult to injury, imagine my joy to learn as part of a post-procedure ultrasound of my neck that “significant narrowing” of my right carotid artery was also found.

Yay me!

That’s right, one of the two arteries that supplies blood to my brain is pretty narrowed. Thankfully the left one is still in good shape, otherwise we’d have a big problem.

What does it mean?

Well, it means that just as I’m getting back on my feet, I get to go under the knife yet again to take care of this little inconvenience. Thankfully, the recovery is not too hard from what I’ve read and I should be good to go soon after.

Let this be a lesson kids… Take care of yourself early in life. Eat the good stuff. Avoid the burgers and fries. Don’t do like I did. It’ll catch up to you and bite you if you do.

Man, this aging thing is beginning to suck just a little…