Surgery for my Varicose Veins
Recovering from surgery isn't the ideal way to get a little rest and relaxation, but I'll take a little downtime any way I can get it. The History of my Legs Last Summer, I was visiting my family when my sister said something about my legs. Veins were bulging out. My parents and my wife noticed what she was talking about, and I suddenly regretted wearing shorts that day. "How long has it been like that," people started to ask me. "I don't know," I said. "A couple of years, maybe." "It doesn't hurt?" "No," I said. "It doesn't bother me at all." The truth is I never even noticed it until people brought it up to me that day. I consider myself to be a relatively healthy person. When I was a teenager, I would ride my bike for miles and miles. I had worked manual labor jobs. In high school and college, I was on my feet working. In my twenties and thirties, I've been hauling heavy loads or standing working ret...