My Aortic Adventure

Before open-heart surgery, I did some planning for the space that I would use for recovery.    I had to figure out what I wanted my living situation to look like when I returned home from the hospital.  I wanted to make sure that when I got home, everything I needed would be accessible, functional, and set-up to promote healing.  In the few days before my operation, I made some of these changes, but it wasn’t until I lived through this process that I understood what was truly important.  Here are some of the considerations to make before heading into a major procedure like this. Ready to head home from my open heart surgery The key here is to think ahead and take on as many of the necessary tasks before surgery so that when you come home, they are not a concern.  Where is your bedroom? During the time of my surgery (and still today), I was living in a basement apartment.  This proposed two issues.  First, this meant that I would need to walk up and down stairs for simple things