Part VI: There's More Of Me

The Gadfly On His Back

In Which Mike McCarville, still slightly incoherent, describes his open heart surgery and its aftermath

After being yinged and yanged by my body, I was pretty insistent I was ready to leave Oklahoma Heart Hospital after 12 days and recuperate from open heart surgery at home. I'd gone in at 127.5 lbs, had not eaten well at all, and left the hospital at 135.5. Edema yet another problem to be faced.

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