The neurosurgeon comes in, the vascular surgeon comes in, and at the last minute, I'm like, can I wear my whoop?

Increasingly we get the message like subject line, whooped saved my life.

Was that always the vision, or do you look around amazed and surprised that you went from there to hear?

I'd played sports my whole life, and I was somebody used to over-trained.

Garmin is like the 800 pound gorilla in

the room and then you have Apple and the Apple Watch. It's arguably a crowded marketplace. I had an

advantage in a strange way in that I didn't know anything about what I was looking at. The pressure on you

has to be insane with the amount of money you raised and the

expectations that come with that. I was not fit to be a CEO. I woke up in the hospital with a panic

attack. That was a big wake-up call for me. How's it going, everybody? Welcome to the podcast.

So today is day 55, 55 days post-spinal fusion surgery.

But I'm recording this in advance, so by the time you hear this, it will be day 66 at the earliest.

And I'm beginning to turn a corner. I'm emerging out of the super acute phase of healing which I got to say has been more trying than I expected not really because of the

pain that has for the most part subsided it's more like just this general discomfort at this point.

The incisions are still a bit tender,

and I can feel this weird intrusion along my spine.

But the main thing is just how taxing it's been

on my energy levels,

like my ability to focus and just normally engage with life, which I thought by now would

have normalized, but that really has not been my experience. I'm generally good for the first

half of the day, but then around three o'clock or so, I just get this wave of incredible fatigue.

And so I've been taking these very long naps,

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