On the Way...

Thank you everybody for all the support...the prayers, good thoughts, visits, calls, emails, cards etc. Thank you for every one of them. Durring the most difficult days you sustained me and my family. Your love and support was very humbling and the wonderful good part that came out of a difficult time. Thanks.



Thank you Kraig, Lesie, Kenzie and Brendan. Thank you Jerr, Kelley, Davis (Little Fellah)and Gracie. Thank you Kalie, Adam, Montana, and Savana and especially Karen. Karen has been amazing and it has not been easy. We had a chance to show what family is all about and I think we did wonderfully well. Thank you. I am so appreciate and so proud of you all.



So here I am so dang happy to be home. It is day 11 at home and day 18 post op.



My first walk on day one at home was 7 minutes at the slowest pace possible and I needed a nap afterwords. Today I will do two 20 minute walks at 3 mph pace. Still slow but a major improvement. This is encouraging! This is my primary objective each day.



I got derailed for a few days with a urinary track infection. I was getting up every hour and it was wiping me out. Perhaps it is not entirely gone out of my system now but it is much better and I am only getting up 3-4 times per night which has dramitically increased my energy level. Another positive.



I started today to get back to the Friends of Pimpollo activities by starting to go through a few hundered emails. I am excited to be back in that game. Some great stuff happened while I have been out if it and I am so appeciate and thankful for those who keep it rolling. Thanks Lizzie, Julie, Monica, Cecelia, Greg, Vicki, Devin, and Sandy who are involved on a daily basis. My apologies for those I might have not included.

Thanks Kraig, Deb and Christie for takin' care of business for me.

When I woke up this morning thinking about Elvia and her family, one of our student/families in Vicente Guerrero with challanges much greater than mine, instead of my challanges, I thought "Dude, you are on the way to getting better."

I hope to write another blog about the bypass/hospital experience. Funny stuff and not so funny stuff happens when you are having by-pass surgery. It is a great thing to avoid if you can and most of us can avoid it if we start young enough. More on that later.

Thank you again everybody from the bottom of my new aorta, new valve, new LAD artery, heart. I love you all and it is your support that got me through this. Gracias,

john