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As far as rehab goes due to how busy the rehab options were in Denver I’ve opted to again do my own rehab rather than just spend pointless hours traveling and missing work. So far I’m pretty happy with the results. I’m at ~60% of my normal upper body workout weights. The benching weight is the most behind but that arguably puts the most strain on my chest so taking it slowly, my other rehab includes camping and now dirt-bike excursions, including some crashes. So far I think this is an even better rehab plan than 13 years ago. Way more fun anyways.
My only struggles are needing more sleep and some fluttering of my heart that I think are induced by some of the heart meds. I’ll discuss that with my cardiologist tomorrow. Getting more sleep is a tough one for me. I’ve never been good at going to bed ‘early’ and so falling asleep before 10 or 11 is really tough but I get up for work at 5:40. So only getting 6 hours of sleep pretty regularly. I’m finding that now that I’m getting older I really could use 7-8 hours.
I had the heart flutter sensation early on as well, definitely mention to your cardiologist. Keep us posted! ðŸ™ðŸ»â¤ï¸â€ðŸ©¹