At 67 I Came Home Alone After Heart Surgery And My Family Told Me To Call An Uber

directing me to a rideshare app.

My thumb hovered over the keyboard.

I thought about telling them the full truth. About the titanium mesh now holding my heart chambers from collapsing. About the blood pressure crash in recovery that had kept me in the ICU for two extra days. About the surgeon’s face when he came to tell me they had almost lost me on continue reading …