Excellent Patient Quote: Heart Surgery Recovery By Kathy Benson
It happens often!
I will be talking with a heart valve surgery patient when they say something ab-sooooo-lutely brilliant.
As I learned when I had my aortic and pulmonary valves replaced, speaking with former cardiac surgery patients was incredibly helpful. There is a sense of related-ness that is simply unmatched.
For this reason, I started a new category in my blog called "Excellent Patient Quotes". I'm going to use this space to share with you some of the inspirational, wise, motivational and loving comments that I hear when I'm out speaking with heart valve surgery patients and caregivers.
Today's excellent quote is about the recovery from heart valve surgery. As I personally experienced, recovering from open heart surgery can be extremely difficult for the patient and their caregivers.
Kathy Benson - Heart Valve Surgery Patient (Minnesota)
Anyways, Kathy Benson from Minnesota recently had an excellent quote about mis-managing your expectations of recovery and comparing yourself to other patients. Here is what Kathy revealed:
"Don't gauge your surgery and recovery on others. Each surgery is unique and each patient will handle things in a different manner. It seems that patients strive to become normal as fast as they can. What is normal? We will forever be heart surgery patients."
In my opinion, that could not be more true.
Keep on tickin!
Adam
Written by Adam Pick
Patient & Website Founder
Written by Adam Pick - Patient & Website Founder
Adam Pick is a heart valve patient and author of The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. In 2006, Adam founded HeartValveSurgery.com to educate and empower patients. This award-winning website has helped over 10 million people fight heart valve disease. Adam has been featured by the American Heart Association and Medical News Today.
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