How long did it take to feel back to normal after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Ron, you talked about being at home for a couple of weeks and not being able to sleep so well, but doing everything for yourself, when did you feel that you were getting back to how you normally are? I think it took quite a long time to get back to some kind of normality and I'm probably luckier than a lot of people because I have a positive mental attitude and because of that positivity really helped me get through it but it was a long period of time what I didn't go through was depression Not even the after effects of having the operation that I could expect to have depression. It took six years and it only lasted a week. I didn't like the feeling. But from what I understand, it could take anything up to two years to get the anaesthetic out of the system. Okay, have you found other people to have suffered from depression after having coronary artery bypass grafting, the people you've spoken to? Nearly everybody I've spoken to were probably going through depression within weeks of having their operation. A period of depression? Yeah. And most people that you've spoken to, they recover quite quickly or? Well what happens is they come to me and talk to me about the way they're actually feeling And because they're feeling depressed, they don't come back to me and say, well, after talking to you, I'm glad that I spoke in tune and it's cured my depression because I don't see them again. But what I can do is reassure them that any loss of memory, any mood swings that they're gonna get is temporary. And even depression will only be temporary, it's partly because it's just a very huge operation. Thank you.