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Hi friends,

The last time that you heard from me, I told you that I was going to undergo an open-heart surgery that would hopefully extend my cardiac lifespan to something resembling normal expectations for the first time without adding shrugged caveats about the amazing rate of medical technological development these days pretty.

I also said that’d it’d be such a quick week away, you may not even notice I’d was gone.

Well, the good news is the surgery worked… after two weeks sleep, I finally woke up on Wednesday.

So the bad news is that none of this made me any better at math. Then again, to be honest, I thought it was 50/50 proposition at best and as I got closer to the surgery date, feared that the odds weren’t even that great, so maybe my rough statistical models are better off terrible.

I’m still in the hospital and still recovering, but thanks to the efforts of an amazing medical team, my parents, my in-laws, my brothers, and the strongest person know, my wife Julia, I should be on the upswing.

It’s been two weeks of comas, ventilators, bleeding, tough moments, a lot of wierdly large pills, disoriented moments, later revelations, and the unerring luck of having health insurance in this country that so often tries to kill you…. I’m not quite out of the woods yet, and I’d be too superstitious to say otherwise anyway, but things are looking up. It’ll be incumbent on me to keep myself healthy, which has always been a preoccupation, but now will become an obsession.

The same can be said about my obsession with the injustices of the American health care system and the economy that extracts life from us.

Here’s a piece I produced on that before the surgery:

I’m hoping to head home tomorrow and continue recuperating from a bit further downtown. Thank you for the kind words of support. I’ll be in touch soon with lessons learned about the health care system and economy during this experience.

Jordan

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