Dr. Michael DeBakey is nearing his centenarian status and not letting up. Well, since the surgery a couple years ago that lengthened his life.
"I've made tremendous progress since I was so weak I couldn't get out of bed," he says. "I know I'm not going to be normal at 99, but I'd like to get back to a reasonably normal life. There are things I'd still like to do."If he had only spent his days creating the fountain of youth, DeBakey might just live forever.
It's a remarkable recovery, even for a man whom friends recall as seeming superhuman in their earliest memories. He is the oldest person not only to survive surgery to repair a tear to the heart's primary artery, the aorta, but also to even undergo such an operation.
In the aftermath, DeBakey says, "I was like tissue."
[Houston Chronicle]
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