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A New Life

            I got a CABG done. Yes, a Cardiac Bypass Surgery on the 7th January '22. I have been gifted a new lease of life surely & it all started with a gadget that never goes off my wrist. 

On my daily walk cum jog of 10 kilometers plus every day, of late I could sense slight lightheadedness if I'd increase the pace & intensity of the jog. I'd stop for a few seconds, check my Fitbit watch, compare it with Neha's figures running alongside &  wonder how mine would never now go in my Cardio Target Zone of 135-140 BPM. It'd always hover around 110 & yet have a buzz in the head.

Mind you, I had completed a grueling 160 km trek through 4200 meters above MSL, the Kashmir Great Lakes Trek in Mid-September & there was a fair bit of confidence in cardiac & overall fitness. But something was amiss.

I contacted as always, our in-house Doctors, my son, Dr. Anshuman Desai & my cricket-team-mate & brother in law, Dr. Samir Desai. Echo & Stress Cardiogram performed by Dr. Biren Sitwala showed a drop in Blood Pressure * Pulse but no blockages. Dr.Himanshu Desai, though opined that these were classic signs of blockage & Dr. Pragnesh Shah, a Cardiac Interventionologist & another cricket teammate, nailed it to three big blockages of 30, 90 & 100% in the three coronary arteries, in the Angiogram performed by him the next day. He opined that a cardiac event was lurking right around the corner.

The next day, Dr. Jagdish Mange, the best Cardio-Thoracic Surgeon in Surat, if not in the country, performed the CABG. The man is not only a Genius but one of the most humble & modest people that I have met. 

I am thankful to all these amazing doctors for the new whiff of breath in me. Thanks to Fitbit too.

Taken on: December 12, 2021

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