01/13/2025
This past Friday we all celebrated my one year Lungiversary. This week we are gonna celebrate the GOAT who removed it.
Dr Murthy is unlike any doctor I’ve ever met for all the best reasons. To quote office space, “He’s a real straight shooter with upper management material written all over him.” Some of our favorite Dr Murthy-isms (or Murth as my wife, our friends, and myself refer to him) are him telling me he was gonna “split me in half” or after discussing my wife’s veganism, he just looked at me with a smirk and said “well I know what he eats”(his bullying light has motivated me to lose 60 lbs so far). Our all time favorite- referring to other surgeons stitching me up and him calling the family post surgery as, “all that Chump change.” Because we are far from normal, during the surgery, my wife and her friends were busy cropping his face onto my photos. We haven’t stopped laughing at them since. At first, we kept the photos to ourselves, but I couldn’t gate keep them any longer. After many follow up appointments, I realized how cool Dr. Murthy really was by the way his staff spoke about him, and by how he called to personally thank me for dropping off food to him and his staff when I first came back to work from being sick. I had to show the photos to his nurse, Carol. She of course thought it was hysterical and immediately had me email them to her. I have since been told they are now hanging up in the office at the hospital. My weirdest request, though, was last week when I reached out to them(obviously the intended use for, my chart)to ask if it was okay to name a sandwich after him. Murth, being super cool, obliged right away and gave me a list of his likes and dislikes. I hope he’s happy with the “chump change chicken club”. I will be coordinating getting one delivered to him. It’s obviously enough of a reward for removing somebody’s lung and saving their life 🙄😂.
Murth truly is our “little superstar” (My wife started calling him our little superstar after every staff person at the hospital who heard his name made a point to say how great he was) Forever thankful for you, Murth.
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