Seven emergency room visits. Five days in the hospital. Seven days recovering in

Seven emergency room visits. Five days in the hospital. Seven days recovering in bed so far – mostly because of this damned upper respiratory infection, not the surgery. Likely three more days in bed to go. Four weeks more to recover fully. And then probably two to four years of being generous to the liver. At 53 I’m already down two organs. 🙂

Lessons learned?

1) Um. Don’t man up to pain. Get problems fixed early. The whole alpha male instinct is wrong on pain. I have an incredibly high pain tolerance. And that’s a bad thing. … Well, outside of business anyway. 🙂

2) Oh, and the one I keep learning all over again: You cannot count on the medical community to get it right. Ever. Especially if you’re on the right of the curve. I had a concierge doctor with cellphone access 24/7, but was absolutely useless, and the only way I got a diagnosis was to tell the ER docs I had no PCP, and needed their help. The only person interested in working hard at curing you early is you. You are your own primary care physician.