beats being wormfood don't it OP
I know the surgery dulled my short term maybe 5%
I think I'm a bit more hypoglycemic at times.
My breast bone is better but some folks tell me it's a couple of years in complete healing.
My stamina is better than since my early 20s (when my problems started affecting me...acute myocardial bridge)
I just walked 4 miles and I would advise anyone needing open heart surgery for whatever reason to get it but it's a helluva ride.
Clinton's must not be emergency status although threatening or they would have moved him up to the front triage wise.
...oh yea...I know have pissbad cervical arthritis from the twisting when they split and spread but it beats the alternative....I suppose.
I suppose that some benefit more than others from the operation. I don't detect any increase in stamina.
Like you, I think my short-term memory (such as it was anyway) has been a bit lessened by the process in which they stop your heart and put you on the heart-lung machine.
That breastbone scar is really something (scary-looking at first, wasn't it?) but mine seems to be fading pretty fast, as does the scar created when they ripped out an artery from my left forearm. (They got the other two from "mammary arteries", whatever those are.)
There must be some sort of triage involved. With me, they examined me for possible use of a stent using the angiogram procedure; at mid-point, they stopped and said, "Sorry, but a stent won't work" and immediately (within 36 hours) put me on the operating table. I had already had a mild heart attack and I suppose they were anxious to preclude another.
Sorry to hear about the cervical arthritis. I escaped that. That must be darn painful.