“You need open heart surgery and you need it soon!”  That’s what the cardiologist told author Martin Ramsay after what was expected to be a routine heart catheterization procedure.  He went from thinking he was relatively healthy to having six bypasses in the space of a week.

Cabbage Heart is the very personal account of one man’s journey through a life-altering experience:  suddenly having his chest sawed open and his cardiac plumbing rerouted.  The surgery, called the Cardiac Arterial Bypass Graft or CABG (“cabbage”) procedure, is a major undertaking.  Recovery is long and physically demanding.  The emotional turmoil is even more challenging.  During his long recovery, Ramsay documented his thoughts, feelings during what was an arduous spiritual odyssey.

Ramsay hopes that Cabbage Heart can be helpful to those who are facing a similar turn-your-world-upside-down changes.  Even those who care about someone who is undergoing major surgery can benefit from his personal perspective.

Ramsay is the founder of CEATH Company, a consulting firm with clients in 13 countries on four continents.  Yet this sudden challenge forced him to reconsider his priorities and arrange to have his business operate without him while he went through months of recovery. Cabbage Heart is as much an emotional and spiritual journey as it is a physical and medical one.