"When I first talk to anybody with a heart problem, they talk like me. They act like me. It's like they are me. They just forever stay in my mind. . . I think that everybody that has a heart problem, we're just very kind to one another. The girls all call me with their problems. I think they can relate to me more.
"You wake up from anesthesia and you don't know what happened. Whenever I go to sleep, I always think, am I going to wake up from this? Am I going to have huge patches keeping my rib cage closed? Am I going to have everything go wrong? But I never forget to say thank you to every doctor I talk to. Thank you. And sometimes it's even a little bit sweeter that you woke up and everything's fine. You have to go through pain, but you live the of your life just fine. . . There's ups and downs. And I'm going to have a few of those. And hopefully I don't have to go way down. You just wait, you know? I just think, this is going to be fun. It's like a roller coaster."
- grant