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Divya Shares When She Returned To Work After Heart Surgery (VIDEO)

February 10, 2009 - 1:48pm 174 reads 0 comments

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Divya shares when she went back to work after undergoing open-heart surgery to repair a valve.

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Divya:
Oh, I was back to work within a couple of weeks because I work from home, and I don’t have a very strenuous job. It’s mostly computer and phone related. I just was off for a couple of weeks. Be careful for the first three months. And within the first month, I would think that anybody who is in reasonably good health before your surgery, you would be pretty much doing 85 to 90% of what you were doing before the surgery.

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