when I wrote the post before this one that it would be over a year before I got back. I had finished the integration project and started my last class when an annual checkup with my cardiologist sent me through a round of stress tests, a catheterization and finally quadruple coronary artery heart by-pass surgery.
It has taken me months to recover and regain some of my former energy and even surpass some of my prior VO2Max scores which had steadily been decreasing prior to the surgery. I was down to 18 before the surgery and now I’ve built myself back up to 26. 26 is still poor but 18 was horrible. For my age, <25 is very poor, 25-28 is poor and 32-35 is the average.
