I'm glad your husband's feeling better, Connie.

Very relieved to hear that, Connie.

Much job~ma for beth.

Wow, really? My dad hasn't had one through the wrist yet!

Oh, so we're ahead on Cardiac Bingo? Hubby has 4 stents, how many does your dad have?

Well, my dad had quadruple bypass 10-12 years ago; 3 of the grafts were arteries, and 1 was a vein from his leg. The vein kept re-closing, and it kept getting opened with balloon angioplasty and then stents were placed. He had way more than 4; it was basically stented from one end to the other by the time it closed 100%.

And that was maybe 2 years ago. (Or 3 maybe.) When that vein kept re-closing, it was always less than 100%, which left enough room for a balloon to re-open it. But as the years went by and it kept happening over and over (about twice a year), his cardiologist said that because the part of the heart that the vein feeds was so comparatively small, that he could let it close 100%, and they wouldn't re-open it, and then what would happen is that part of the heart muscle would atrophy, but because he was in his mid-to-late 60s and wasn't an athlete, he wouldn't notice any real decline in what he would be able to do physically. And once it was closed totally, then (obviously) it couldn't keep re-closing and causing him chest pains and sending him to the ER several times a year, etc.

So that's what happened; he let it close up, and he said that he had lingering chest pains for a good 2 weeks, but then they abated and he really hasn't had any problems with it since then. (He's just developed a whole raft of other problems, that I don't even want to talk about. It's mind-boggling.)

Yeah, bypass trumps stents. There must be a score sheet somewhere. I suspect in the cardiac surgeon breakroom they play a form of poker with the stats of their patients.

Huh, so I just heard from my SiL, that she couldn't take hearing my brother ranting, so she made him quit the political argument with me. And that in order to control himself, he had to unfriend me. I'm only surprised that he didn't unfriend me sooner. So much anger, bitterness and hatred, and it shoved actual possibilities for discourse out of the way.

Gads, Andi, what a massively fucked up sitch.

Connie glad hubbie is OK. WindSparrow sorry your brother is so full of bile. The Libertarians do have a good point about complaints of how new all this incivility is. (warning youtube on autorun and makes fun of Obama):

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Dana, I hope you're headacheless now.

Connie, thank you for the update.

Busy busy morning. I was trying to clean, but it's taking so long to do such small things that I'm giving up and getting the PA to do it next week. Off to a meet-up of old UK Bronzers in Birmingham! Haven't seen some of them in years! Very exciting. Happy Saturday, Bitches.

Have fun, Seska!

Woke up at 6:30 again this morning. Felt pretty gronktastic so I went back to bed. But I couldn't really sleep so I guess this method of changing one's schedule works. I think I lasted about a half hour lying on the bed and then up. So it still counts.

I should probably make a list of priorities today. I have so many things I *could* be doing on any given day that I often end up doing not much at all just out of confusion.