From: Ron (rojoha@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 18:26:19 PST
Oh good grief....
Please take Hankie with a grain of salt. I was unable to monitor his
posts while I was indisposed and had no Idea what was going on out here. I
got a home this afternoon and booted up a little while ago, and found Hankie
the Town Crier in full swing (and 173 list messages since Sunday). The silly
bastard was a rock for my wife Debbie, popping in and out of the hospital at
all hours an listening to the different doctors and helping her understand
what might be going on. BUT I did not know he would then continue to pivot
to the nearest keyboard and fire out bulletins.
Reports of Ronzo doing a meltdown or pulling a vaporlock are a little
misleading. I'm still kicking and appreciate all the concern by ya'll and
are a mite embarrassed!
Had some interesting times the past couple of days which I really do
hope you get to miss when your insurance wheel swings around. Had 2 cardiac
catheterizations, one in each leg, one without any sedatives, got to pull a
minnistroke during the first one when they 'knocked' a piece of plaque
loose, then they over whacked me with nitro, morphine, dopamine and a bunch
of other chemicals and then spent three plus hours with 5 people trying to
keep me from bouncing around and moving my leg and bleeding out. Got to
spend some quality time
in an MRI, Ultrasound and two different cath labs, as well as bit my wife's
arm while I while was kibbiying around on the table. Also had several dozens
of square feet of formerly hirsute skin defoliated by sadistic nurses with
various types of self adhesive leads and IV tapes and one fruity bahstard
with a cordless razor who thought he was shaving salt pork and had bucket of
some kind of iodine solution kept at about 4 degrees centigrade which he
liberally splashed on all package areas while whistling 'Another one bites
the dust'. I got my nose and upper lip crushed by the X ray camera in the
cath lab when one of them got distracted while repositioning it and was
yelled at several times for 'tensing' up my guts as they ran the flex rods
in and out of my leg without having me doped up. Almost as much fun as
Aberdeen in the rain.....
From the good side, the marvels of medical science enabled them to grind
a complete calcium/fat blockage from one of the heart arteries and replace 4
1/2 inches of it by hooking three stents together in a row and avoiding
having to do an open heart procedure, and installing 3 more stents in the
right anterior artery, giving me a pat on the ass and sending me out the
door 18 hours later to go find a Cracker Barrel and a couple of MREs. And to
think it all got started from one of those coupons in on of those Val Pak
value envelopes your wife gets in the mail!
What a country!
So Thanks for the concern and let's get back to normal while Hankie is
in Florida for a couple of days.
Oh, yeah.....If I can figure out who suggested to Hankie that they
thought it would it be cute to sprinkle glitter and crazy glue on the
contact point of my Foley catheter and the equipment package while I was
out, well, the result, it just isn't gonna be pretty!
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