According to my grandpa, his cardiologist calls him his "poster child." He had a quadruple-bypass open heart surgery 25 years ago — a surgery expected to increase his life only by 10 or so years, and he's now the longest-living patient in his cardiologist's office to undergo the procedure. He's still cognitively sharp as a tack and physically strong, as well. In January, my family gathered in a community park to celebrate his 90th birthday — just months earlier, he and my grandma marked 65