“It’s a good feeling not to take a handful of pills. My first visit post-op, the doctor took me off the blood pressure medication…and then the cholesterol medication stopped about 2 months ago… I am faithfully back at the gym. I did 20 minutes of aquatic therapy to start. Then I did 30 minutes, and today was 45 minutes. And I’m going to keep going up, I’m not going back down. You can do so much more. You just feel good about yourself.”