I'm glad the surgery went well, Omnis. My dad also got a good decade with the help of stents, so I hope your father has at least as good an experience.
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Calli - Nov 18, 2011 2:11:51 am PST #3041 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
sumi - Nov 18, 2011 4:47:51 am PST #3042 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Omnis - glad the surgery went well. I hope that the recovery goes even better.
amyth - Nov 18, 2011 5:04:49 am PST #3043 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
askye, that's a lot to process! But it sounds like it went well, overall.
Omnis, I'm glad the surgery went well.
Hon, don't be too hard on yourself. It's been a stressful while.
What Erin said, Nora. After all the shit that happened last year, I hid from the world for a while. Getting out of bed and going to work was all I could manage. I complained to my therapist that I'm an extrovert, and it wasn't normal for me. He had to remind me that when I was ready to emerge, I would. And I did.
Steph L. - Nov 18, 2011 5:22:48 am PST #3044 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Omnis, my dad has at least 4 stents, possibly more, all in the same vein graft. And he's had them for 10-15 years. He's doing very well, active at his church, works as a greeter at the grocery store, does yard work for an elderly lady friend of his (never mind the fact that he's about to turn 70).
They work very well, and will be a great help to your dad.
Fred Pete - Nov 18, 2011 5:52:16 am PST #3045 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Good news about the surgery going well, omnis.
Ginger - Nov 18, 2011 7:22:29 am PST #3046 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I just said I would foster a dog who was hit by a car. Apparently I have lost what was left of my mind.
Also, Mr Peabody is in the crate because the termite people are here, and he's terrified, poor noodle. There are people! And he can't drive them away!
omnis_audis - Nov 18, 2011 7:24:42 am PST #3047 of 30001
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Thanks for the info with stints. Now we just gotta figure out the stroke thing.
Strix - Nov 18, 2011 7:25:43 am PST #3048 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My dad has had a triple bypass, and then a stent after that. He's 71, and going great. Walks the dog every day, eats much more healthily.
I'm glad to hear it went well. My friend is a cardiac ICU nurse, so if you have any questions, I'll forward them to her, omnis!
Ginger - Nov 18, 2011 7:31:48 am PST #3049 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The termite people are taking a long time and asking me questions about my plan. This doesn't seem like a good thing.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2011 7:37:46 am PST #3050 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother went back to her oncologist with the information you gave her Ginger. It was pretty useful, and she hadn't heard of all of it. I'm pretty sure she's not trying to think about it too much in advance, but I told her Buffistas got her back, so not to hesitate.
She gets what you guys can do (Safe Harbor in Ann Arbor, after all), but this is the first time it's been done for *her*.