Welcome to my Heart Blog.

One Persons's journey to a Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) and hopefully beyond.

I Began this diary while I was sitting in hospital recovering from a quadruple coronary artery bypass graft (CABG). The aim was to track my progress and think a bit more about the National Health Service acute services, what we should appreciate about it and where we might do better.

I stopped writing when there was, frankly, not much else to record. However in June I signed up for a half marathon and thought I would re-open the blog as a training diary. It may even include a few health and exercise tips along the way.

I am neither a health-care professional nor a sports and fitness guru. What I write is no more expert than some of the things you might here from that bloke in the pub, so I take no responsibility for how you might use my ramblings. Be warned!

If you want to you can read the "back story", from hospital to rehab in earlier blog posts. One thing I have learned is that most people are not interested in reading my ramblings so, for those who do, I promise in future to keep them short.

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Friday 14th. Phase 3 physio begins

Back to the Sobell Centre, I and 6 or 7 others plus two physics do some warm ups then relatively gentle aerobics, followed by warm down stretches.  Feels like a real gym class, though not so stressful.  The others are all different sizes and states of health.  Some cope with the exercise pretty well others make a token effort.  The physio is quite attentive, ensuring that I don't do too much.  "No racing" she says.  Anyway, notwithstanding that the exercises were pretty pathetic by most standards I enjoyed the class and found it helped loosen up my chest muscles.

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