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Am I a country singer now? I don't know, but it's feeling like I want to sing to you. Get in my guitar and just sing in the blues.

Okay, enough of that. I hope everybody's doing well. Thank you for tuning in. To this lovely podcast today, it's just me. It's just me and you because there's a lot going on right now.

So it's not going to be a detailed podcast, but I'm just going to kind of give you an update about what's been going on in my life.

It's been full of some really fun times and full of some worries sometimes, but that is life, I guess.

I will start with the biggest thing that's been going on and something that people have been asking me about because I talked a little bit about it on my social media.

My dad had to have open heart surgery.

Gosh, was that last week now? Yeah, so he went in to have a stress test a couple of weeks ago.

Sort of a routine thing for him because your parents reach a certain age and that's what happens.

And thank goodness he is going to the doctor and getting checked because they found out that half of his heart is not getting enough oxygen.

So they scheduled him for a heart catheterization that same day and they said, if this works, you're good to go and that will be that.

But if it doesn't work, then you have to have open heart surgery.

So he got this heart catheterization done and it did not work.

So he was bummed to find out that he did in fact have to have open heart surgery.

He was going to have to have his aortic valve replaced and they weren't sure if he would have to have triple bypass or double bypass, but there was a lot of blockage happening.

And they basically said, if you don't have this surgery done, you will die in six months.

So obviously not much of an option there, but he's lucky.

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