{"id":433,"date":"2008-06-18T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/06\/18\/after-open-heart-surgery-patient-opens-30-year-dream\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:29:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:29:36","slug":"after-open-heart-surgery-patient-opens-30-year-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/06\/18\/after-open-heart-surgery-patient-opens-30-year-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"After Heart Valve Replacement Surgery, Patient Opens 30-Year Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is one thing I see in heart surgery patients, it is their renewed vigor for life.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I consider the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-replacement.php\">after heart valve replacement surgery (in 2005)<\/a> as my own &#8220;Second Chance&#8221;. As I have shared with you in prior blogs, I am much more appreciative of all the wonderful things that this amazing life has to offer. I get set off by the smallest things (the wonderful smell of a rose) or and the largest commitments (my marriage to Robyn).<\/p>\n<p>That said, any time I see something which resonates with this mindset, I share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Sooooooo&#8230;. Here is in a fascinating story about a heart surgery patient that is chasing his dream. Mike McGill, left his insurance job of 17 years to open his very own sportsbar called &#8220;The Plate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike McGill Opens Sportsbar After Heart Surgery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/mike-mcgill.gif\" width=\"340\" height=\"344\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought you might enjoy this story published in The Times earlier today. Click this link to read about, <a href=\"http:\/\/mywebtimes.com\/archives\/ottawa\/display.php?id=361771\" target=\"_blank\">Mike McGill Opens Sportsbar After Open-Heart Surgery Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heart-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}