... I'd like to thank the owners of AAC for providing this place I've frequented for a number of years now, and enabling me to interact with people all over the planet.
Thanks to the Moderators for keeping the "riff-raff" at bay, and for your friendship.
And thanks to everyone else for sharing your ideas, friendship and cameraderie; it's been a lot of fun.
I haven't mentioned it to anyone on here before now, because I didn't want to cause any undue alarm.
I am blessed with high cholesterol, as my father was, and so was his father. I have a couple of blocked arteries in my heart; it's been giving me difficulties for months now. In the morning, I'm going in the hospital for a cardiac catheterization & angioplasty, to hopefully get those blockages cleared. I'm scheduled to go in at 10AM. The procedure is supposed to take less than an hour, and I may be released as soon as 4pm, or a total of six hours. Sometimes, they will keep a patient overnight, but cardiac catheterization is basically outpatient surgery nowadays.
I'm really quite fortunate that they have advanced this particular type of surgery as far as it has been. Angioplasty was conceived of in 1964, but the first experimental balloon wasn't made until 1974. The procedure was approved just in time to save my Dad back in 1985. I had to have it performed on myself some 10 years later, when I suddenly found myself not being able to get up off the floor.
Having gone through it before, I'm no stranger to the procedure. At worst, there are moments of moderate discomfort, you have to stay lying flat for hours on end, and I wound up with a rather large and nasty looking bruise on my inner thigh that took weeks to go away.
But, they have improved the procedure even more in the intervening years, and I look forward to even less discomfort than the last time. I'll be very glad to have this procedure behind me, as I have had very little energy, trouble sleeping, and have not been thinking clearly for several months. This should take care of all these issues.
Even with such well-established procedures, there are always things that can go wrong. I'm not anticipating any difficulties, and I should be back at the latest within several days.
But if I'm not, you'll have an idea what happened.
Best wishes to all for a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year, and many more to come.
Thanks to the Moderators for keeping the "riff-raff" at bay, and for your friendship.
And thanks to everyone else for sharing your ideas, friendship and cameraderie; it's been a lot of fun.
I haven't mentioned it to anyone on here before now, because I didn't want to cause any undue alarm.
I am blessed with high cholesterol, as my father was, and so was his father. I have a couple of blocked arteries in my heart; it's been giving me difficulties for months now. In the morning, I'm going in the hospital for a cardiac catheterization & angioplasty, to hopefully get those blockages cleared. I'm scheduled to go in at 10AM. The procedure is supposed to take less than an hour, and I may be released as soon as 4pm, or a total of six hours. Sometimes, they will keep a patient overnight, but cardiac catheterization is basically outpatient surgery nowadays.
I'm really quite fortunate that they have advanced this particular type of surgery as far as it has been. Angioplasty was conceived of in 1964, but the first experimental balloon wasn't made until 1974. The procedure was approved just in time to save my Dad back in 1985. I had to have it performed on myself some 10 years later, when I suddenly found myself not being able to get up off the floor.
Having gone through it before, I'm no stranger to the procedure. At worst, there are moments of moderate discomfort, you have to stay lying flat for hours on end, and I wound up with a rather large and nasty looking bruise on my inner thigh that took weeks to go away.
But, they have improved the procedure even more in the intervening years, and I look forward to even less discomfort than the last time. I'll be very glad to have this procedure behind me, as I have had very little energy, trouble sleeping, and have not been thinking clearly for several months. This should take care of all these issues.
Even with such well-established procedures, there are always things that can go wrong. I'm not anticipating any difficulties, and I should be back at the latest within several days.
But if I'm not, you'll have an idea what happened.
Best wishes to all for a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year, and many more to come.