What's for Dinner, Thurs., April 13, 2023

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8. It was fun to be out with my husband. He has his own issues...neuropathy and a failed lower

back fusion. He can't work as a quality engineer anymore although too young for retirement so we applied for disability. It took a year but he recently was approved. I consider us very lucky to have gotten it; many do not. It has been a tough year and we are relatively young for all this. I had a bad aortic valve...from birth, it seems. It was hereditary.

My parents carried the gene...and the valve begins to wear out in the late 50's. I was in perfect health a year ago...or so I thought. I am told that Covid in July caused damage to an already weakened heart but the valve was not discovered then. It should have been as the Echo clearly showed an abnormality in the Aortic valve. I fired my cardiologist in fact. I was in critical condition when admitted to the hospital and spent 46 days in the hospital...mostly in the ICU. But I am recovering now after my surgery, and my heart is healing. Thank you for your kind wishes.