D'oh! How could I forget my crush on Danica McKellar?

I was Teen Beat boy crazy as a kid--lots of singers, etc. My earliest boy crushes were cartoon characters--including Mark on Battle of the Planets (I was a huge geek even at 9 years old).

First live action girl crush Wilma on Buck Rogers.

Good choice.

Teppy, lots of cardiac~ma for your dad. And low-stress~ma for you.

I had a headache when Christopher got home so I took a two-hour nap. When I got up, headache was still there, with the addition of general intestinal upset. What fun. Have been banished back upstairs so I don't infect the kids.

I wish I had some miso soup.

Oh! I also crushed on that bald chick in thebTrek movie.

Persis Khambatta. She died 10 years ago, I think, fairly young. From cancer, I believe.

edited---she died a long time ago.

Murdock is actually the one I liked on the A-Team. I liked Dirk Benedict when he was Starbuck

Both for me as well. I adored Murdock.

I had a crush on Buck Rogers, too.

I had a girl crush on the evil princess from Buck Rogers...she had this white costume, with boots that just made me feel all warm and confused in side.

My first concert, I think, was Chuck Mangione

Was it at Meglomart?

Ahahaha!!! Because saving money *feels so good*!

Dad update: his quadruple bypass was 11 years and 1 month ago. He had 3 mammary artery grafts/re-routes, and 1 leg vein graft. Over the past 11 years, the 3 arterial grafts have stayed wide open and, in the words of his cardiologist, "beautiful."

However, the vein graft is the one that has kept re-occluding all this time. And every time, the cardiologist would go in, open it with angioplasty, place a stent to prop it open, and it would be fine....for about 6 months, when a different part of the vein would re-occlude.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

So that's what Dad figured it would be this time, and he was right -- with one crucial difference. This time, the vein re-occluded 100%. You see, if it closes up even 90%, they can still get a catheter in there to open it with an angioplasty. But when it's closed 100%, they can't re-open it.

Again, in his cardiologist's words, they "lost" the vein. It's 100% blocked for good.

This doesn't sound good, on the face of it. However. Because the vein has kept re-occluding for 11 freaking years, and -- most importantly -- because the area of the heart that the vein feeds is actually pretty small, they can leave the vein closed, and Dad will be fine. Seriously.

It *does* mean that a small percentage of his heart muscle will, essentially, die. But his cardiologist is really REALLY excellent, and she went over all this test results with us, and she assured us that the amount of cardiac muscle he'll lose will be negligible, and it won't affect his physical stamina, in terms of everyday activities and even exercising (as long as he sticks to walking and doesn't decide to become an Olympic sprinter).

His cardiologist said that, once the vein is 100% blocked and the heart muscle is cut off from blood (that's so freaking weird to talk about as though it's a *good* thing, but in this case, it's the best option), his angina, which had been more or less constant for 2 months, should diminish and probably cease.

So, although it sounds freaky and dangerous, it's actually an acceptably good situation -- Dad has a cardiac vein that's 100% blocked, and part of his heart muscle is going to die, and....yay?

Physiology is weird, yo.

Wow, that's really weird sounding, but I guess good. I mean, it's definitely good, though hard to grasp.

Damn, Tep. That's one strong ticker! (If maybe a little buggy.)

Damn, Tep. That's one strong ticker!

Right?!? I sure hope I inherited it. (Though I'd vastly prefer to not have inherited the heart disease; it's a little too early in my life span to tell yea or nay.)

(If maybe a little buggy.)

Heh. If that bug is the size of the roach-alien in Men in Black, then yes.

Wow, that's really weird sounding, but I guess good. I mean, it's definitely good, though hard to grasp.

I know -- "Let's allow your heart muscle to DIE!" I think that the fact that he's 65 is a big factor in that decision; if he were younger, he might notice some diminished physical exertion capacity. But since he's 65 and not an Olympic athlete, he's going to be left with more than enough healthy cardiac muscle to go about his daily life and, like I said, even walk around the track at the gym.

The man is a BRICK.