Yep, thats about what I do. Now I have to remember to take it a few times 2-3 weeks before I have a dr. appt. just because they want to see at least a few readings. Happy for your sucessful surgery. LAD Stent for me in 2015, that was enough to get my attention in regards to diet and cardio.
I was in intensive care two days after surgery, when they rolled me over to do an x-ray. I threw a pulmonary embolus and I stopped breathing. My heart arrested. I was clinically dead. Flat-lined.
Luckily, the medical personnel around me reacted quickly and cut me back open again two days after being sewn up, unwired my breast bone and the chief cardio-pulmonary surgeon at the VA hospital where I was at, hand-massaged my heart for over 5 minutes before I started beating on my own again.
Spent five weeks in the hospital post-op instead of the standard five days for heart surgery patients. I had two blood transfusions. An open chest wound. I was a mess.
When I finally got out of the hospital, I could barely walk and could hardly breathe. It took two years before I started feeling normal again. Without exercising or being able to do any physical work for two years, I gained a ton of weight. I used to be a skinny marathon runner. So my next job after being able to breath better and exercise, was to lose all the weight I had gained. I lost 105 lbs. in 14 months.
Now I am fit again, walking briskly for 45 minutes a day (my running days are over because I have two artificial knee replacements) and running my cattle farm doing physically demanding work again. I feel great.
At age 70, don't let anybody tell you it can't be done. I came back from the dead and now live fitter and healthier now than ever. It was a long road back but it was worth it because I'm still alive and kickin'.