“...took 3.5 months from my initial echocardiogram to being released from the hospital...”
3.5 months seems like a very long time. Is it? I don’t know.
Not really when you consider I went from no idea I had a heart condition to open heart surgery, those 3.5 months included 6-7 tests and a similar number of consultations with a cardiologist and surgeons unless you need emergency surgery I considered the very short