Time flies when....

Wow, has it really been 7 years since my last post?
So much has happened... our daughter got married to a truly wonderful guy, a few years later, our first grandchild was born, Julia who is the sunshine in our lives now!
With the good, comes the bad....
My wife (Gwen) got diagnosed with cancer. The good news was, her oncologist said to us "if you had to get cancer, this is the one to get because it's 100% curable!". I promised my wife I'd be with her every step of the way until she was cured.
So, the night my wife had an operation to have a small tumor removed, I went home and when I went to bed that evening, I had severe chest pains. I thought it might have been what I ate, as the pain was directly in my sternum, and my right shoulder.
Turns out, it was what my doctor called, a "silent heart attack". From that day forward, if I exerted myself at all, I was getting chest pains. I went for test after test, while taking my wife to chemotherapy.
My doctors said I had a blockage (something I had been telling them since day 1), and they'd do the procedure to insert a stent. Just a few minutes into that procedure, they stopped and said that wouldn't work, as I had 3 blockages, and each one was 90% blocked. They said I'd have to have a triple bypass. Was I scared? On a scale of 1-10, I was a 50. All kinds of things went through my mind. I was hoping to have it put off until after my wife finished her chemo, but the doctor said, "are you kidding? We want to do this next WEEK!". It was that bad.
So, 2 days before Thanksgiving, November 26, 2019, I had my triple bypass.
I was scared out of my mind. I didn't want to leave my wife alone. I wanted to see my granddaughter grow up.
I woke up after surgery to hear my wife's voice. Her and my daughter were there for the few minutes that I was awake. The next time I woke up, a wonderful nurse named Tim, that was outstanding. He calmed me, answered every one of my questions, stayed with me, talked to me.. he was just great.
I was in the hospital for 4 days, going home on the 5th day. Recovery was tough, as I was sore as heck. Note, since the surgery, I hadn't really had any pain, just discomfort. Luckily, Gwen works from home so she was there every day, and our daughter helped out by getting us groceries, prescriptions and everything else. Oh, at that time, my wife wasn't driving as she had a couple of episodes on weekends of passing out. There was some problems with blood pressure medications they had her on, and that's fixed now. With the help of our daughter and my wife's niece, she's completed her chemo, and is now cancer free! I felt bad about not being able to go to the last 3 treatments she had... but I had a good reason.
So... after a lot of recuperating, I'm going to Cardiac Rehab, which is like going to the gym, but you wear a monitor. I have to do about 36 sessions of them, and I get real sore right after them. Oh well, anything to get better!
More soon....