I echo Gary’s comments, safe is good. Get well soon and I’m sure you will. Below is a story of a friend of mine and he’s going strong today.

I have a lifelong friend who I started 1st grade with, we have remained friends 61 years now, he’s 66. At age 65 he was given a choice, have an LVAD operation or gamble on how long his heart would keep beating. The short of it is they had to replace his left ventricle heart valve with a pump to keep his heart going. He always needs to be hooked up to batteries that he wears on a specially designed vest, he needs to keep back up batteries. He also had to have a generator installed at his house in event of a power failure, no power the heart stops beating.

I’m relating this because Louie is living an active life today, despite having a couple of trips back to hospital for set backs one was an infection he’s now back doing volunteer work 3 days per week.