From the Gym to the Hospital and Back Again: Exercise After a Major Illness

Joel Ombry
4 min readJan 5, 2020

I was hospitalized three times for a total of eleven days from April to June 2018.

The first time was for a radical prostatectomy after routine blood screening discovered signs of prostate cancer and a biopsy confirmed it. That was followed almost four weeks later by a double pulmonary embolism. Blood clots which formed after the…

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Joel Ombry

Trying to figure it out by writing it down. Interested in politics, health and fitness, writing and personal development.