Open Heart Bypass Surgery Recovery: Why I’m Making Music Like My Life Depends On It
Open Heart Bypass Surgery Recovery: Why I'm Making Music Like My Life Depends On It (Personal experience, not medical advice.) The Ultimate Test of My Own Message Today (Monday, August 4, 2025), I stepped back into the café where I work, five weeks after surgery, I can still feel the incision along my chest wall, and the time it takes for a breastbone to knit reminds me, this is major surgery. My body felt surprisingly steady, despite the scars on my arms and chest that still itch and burn, despite the awareness of my breastbone where they opened me up. As Bobby Makes Music, my mission is to communicate with busy parents: “Don't postpone your creativity. You can balance family, work, and art. Keep that creative flame alive.” Then life handed me the ultimate test of my own philosophy. When the Music Almost Stopped For years, I've been that guy, the full-time venue manager who comes home to produce music after tucking his daughter into bed. The father who squeezes music maki...