“I found that sleeping after open-heart surgery was far more challenging than I had anticipated, and it was something no one fully prepared me for,” says Williams, 34, of St. Petersburg, Florida.

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In the 1950s, open-heart surgery had a 50 percent mortality rate. Today it is less than 1 percent. Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP via STAT News My heart was breaking, but not from lost love.