Welcome home, Christy. Know that this group is your home as well as your home in Ohio, because we all are you brothers and sisters.
I hope you visit often and grow to love this site and these people as much as I have in the nearly three years since I discovered the site.
Ira
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Ira Reid
Hoboken NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-23-2021 07:48
From: Christy Smith
Subject: My heart has just been mended
Hi everyone
I found out I have a bicuspid valve and aortic aneurysm about 4 years ago while living in Southern California. As it worsened, I got too scared to go through such a huge surgery without my family so I moved back to Ohio to get it done at Cleveland Clinic last year.
i had my surgery on March 10 and had complete heart block after surgery. Ended up staying in ICU for ten days and ultimately got a pacemaker as well.
I thought in the four years I had to prepare, I was all ready, but nothing went as planned of course and I had not planned on the mental/emotional toll this would take on me at all. What an experience.
Im happy to have found this group. I've been home for three days recovering and processing what I just went through. Happy to meet you all.
Christy
Columbus Ohio
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Christy Smith
associate creative director
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