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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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 Posted - 02/19/2006 : 20:51:52
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Hi everyone. Well, here's the deal. I just got out of the hospital. I had a heart attack last Thursday morning. I had to have a procedure called an Angioplasty including the insertion of a stint in one completely closed artery. I will undergo the procedure again in about a month to open a second artery that is getting only a 15% blood flow.
I am doing well and the expectation is for a complete recovery. Of course, there are certain lifestyle changes that I must make, and I intend to make them. I see this heart attack as a “shot across the bow” and I am taking it seriously…
I will probably have to limit my regular job duties to nearly nothing for about a month and a half. I will press my doctor on that one. It is amazing how ambiguous doctors can be even as they answer your questions.
Anyhow, that's the deal. I suppose for a month or so I will be online even more than usual, given that no one said I couldn't continue doing this. I will also have more time to write. And while a heart attack would not necessarily be my chosen way of getting some of those things not related to gainful employment done, I guess I'll take it.
So there it is. I am not going anywhere…
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/19/2006 : 21:15:03 [Permalink]
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Oh, goodness sake, sorry about that close call. Get healthy soon, David!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/19/2006 : 21:26:55 [Permalink]
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..... DOH!
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I am doing well and the expectation is for a complete recovery. Of course, there are certain lifestyle changes that I must make, and I intend to make them. I see this heart attack as a “shot across the bow” and I am taking it seriously…
Kil, you are just trying to ride the coattails of Randi with the whole blocked artery thing!
I predict there will be less steak in your future 
hehehe!
Seriously though, I hope you are doing well and have a speedy recovery. I'm sure you have many more years of being a cantankerous old skeptic ahead of you.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 02/19/2006 : 22:17:52 [Permalink]
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| Kil, you and Randi are, to me, two shots across my bow. I'll probably be posting less often in order to take care of some things. |
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Evidently, I rock!
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/19/2006 : 23:18:47 [Permalink]
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Here's hoping for a speedy recovery, Kil.
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 02/20/2006 : 00:27:56 [Permalink]
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| Congratulations on still being alive. Which gods did you pray to? |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/20/2006 : 03:13:49 [Permalink]
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"HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments — a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling — tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility — these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, Delectatio Demonorum (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration." -- Ambrose Bierce
You must have a care, Mr. Trout. It would not do to lose yet another of the good ones.
Hang in and heal up, brother. Our best wished are riding with you.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/20/2006 : 04:06:32 [Permalink]
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| All the best sir. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 05:51:46 [Permalink]
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Get well, Kil!
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 06:29:43 [Permalink]
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Jeez,
Get well, Kil.
My psychic powers are kicking in..... I see....... less butter. More exercise. Less beef.
It's not so bad, Kil. Could be worse. |
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 07:12:47 [Permalink]
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Less eggrolls, too?
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"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 02/20/2006 : 07:26:15 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
Hi everyone. Well, here's the deal. I just got out of the hospital. I had a heart attack last Thursday morning. I had to have a procedure called an Angioplasty including the insertion of a stint in one completely closed artery.
Holy Macarony...! (the only begotten Son of the Spaghetti Monster)
It's good to hear from you so soon. Those things can be a heart-stopper. If not for you, then for us. We can't afford to loose one of our Founding Fathers of SFN.
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Of course, there are certain lifestyle changes that I must make, and I intend to make them.
No more egg-rolls for Wednesday Chats, huh?
It's good to see you up and about anyway. Take care, and get well.
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 02/20/2006 : 07:33:58 [Permalink]
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Here's to your speedy recovery! (sound of a beersoda clinking) :-) |
by Filthy
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 10:20:15 [Permalink]
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Thanks everyone!
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/20/2006 : 12:08:14 [Permalink]
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My word, an epidemic! Very glad you only needed a stint and are doing well. Those have been very successful.
So, Dave, would that be exercise you'd be referring to? Might I suggest a dog? I get a good hour a day running behind too little poodle-terriers that are so anxious to be out walking they pull with incredible strength for their size. I swear they could match a Husky pulling a sled.
I also advocate those statins if one suits you. I take one. Gotta take advantage of that science, you know. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 02/20/2006 : 13:04:43 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal
My word, an epidemic! Very glad you only needed a stint and are doing well. Those have been very successful.
So, Dave, would that be exercise you'd be referring to? Might I suggest a dog? I get a good hour a day running behind too little poodle-terriers that are so anxious to be out walking they pull with incredible strength for their size. I swear they could match a Husky pulling a sled.
I also advocate those statins if one suits you. I take one. Gotta take advantage of that science, you know.
That's your suggestion? Get a couple of poodle-terriers so they can take you on a brisk morning drag?
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