If your doctor tells you that the 1/3 of patients don’t make it out alive, you start to think about many aspects of life in general. Also, while in those critical moments, you start to have an intimate conversation with yourself about your death and life. While not everyone is the same, I would like to share my experiences to let others know what I felt and what I was thinking in those potential final moments of my life.

If my doctor told me with a definite answer that I didn’t have much time, I would probably gave myself an excuse to allow destructive behaviors of all kinds just like Nicholas Cage in ‘Leaving Las Vegas.’ Since that is not the case, I’m grateful to be alive after one year from the surgery. Though I dont know how this is all going to play out, I wanted to make it a personal habit or goal to walk at least a mile per day or week while trying out new techs on kicks.