This isn’t a podcast about resilience, silver linings, or life lessons wrapped in bow ties. It’s a prologue—a raw, honest introduction to the absurd reality of surviving a heart attack, a cardiac arrest, and a valve replacement.

In this opening episode, A.K. Thiagaraj lays out what’s coming: dark humor, uncomfortable truths, saxophone riffs (yes, that’s him), and a story not about bouncing back—but just making it through.

The real story begins in Episode 1. But this one sets the tone.

Beaten by life. Still beating.