I’m sorry I missed posting yesterday. If I had been here, I would have told you that the Kickstarter “surveys” are going out this weekend, which will be your opportunity to tell me where to send your reward and to list particulars in your case. It only goes out once! That’s Kickstarter doing, not mine. So, take care filling it out, and in the case of book inscriptions, etc., be sure and tell me exactly what you’d like. Here we go!
114 responses to “A Matter of Perspective”
No such thing as being too Southern.
Good morning Villagers….
….don’t have much to add here, been in a slump lately.
ya’ll have a blessed day
love, debbe
GR 😉 need to adopt this philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9TShlMkQnc
🙂 https://i.chzbgr.com/full/8965920256/hFED9266E/
Debbe, On more than one occasion I went in the office, didn’t even put my briefcase down, turned around and walked out Then there was the day I walked in and found one of the maintenance men holding a knife on one of our clerical people. Ordinarily she would have handled him herself, but she was in the midst of chemo and wasn’t up to par. Nobody got hurt and he went to jail that day You think that I’m bs’ing about saving lives, but your strongest weapon is between your ears.
Good morning everybody. I will be headed to hospital for the procedure in about an hour. When I get home again I will let you know how it went.
Have a great day.
Debbe,
Cheer up. As an old friend said, “We all have a terminal disease, it’s called-“LIFE”. Just want you to know that I help your industry by eating at least 8 eggs per week.
Mark and everyone else in need: God bless us every one. God bless America.
Debbe you need us to help you? Let us know if there is anything we can do besides worry about you.
Mark
You are probably in the midst of your test so prayers are in progress.
Jerry
Please do not let security people know that (Brains = Weapon) they will require
all airline passengers to leave theirs at the gate. Surprised they don’t require passengers
to leave clothes and wear paper jump suits.
Debbe
If you do use Pasti Dip try on an out of the way spot first. As I tell all my customers.
I worked for us but your results may vary.
B’ugs and stay cool.
This is an odd date (thinking on it not that uncommon) Month and Day = Year
this is just obvious today. While 9&7 = 16, 09/09 =18 will be awhile.
What Jackie said — Amen
Just heard from Mark who is waiting for procedure. I am supposed to get a report when he’s done from his friend or brother. Hoping it is just stints.
Read a funny heart essay yesterday from Lewis Grizzard where he wrote he thought they waited until they needed a valve and surgeon told orderly to go pick out a pig from the pen behind the hospital and run it up fast to operating room.
I believe Lewis claimed the pig that supplied his valve was named Jerome.
Do you love Lewis Grizzard as much as I do? I think he and Dave Barry are funny and I forgave all their sins, of which there were some.
I liked that the most popular columnist had two categories, Lewis Grizzard and a second one for anyone not named Grizzard.
I cannot eat a pork chop with a bone and not think of him.
*Nine Important Facts To Remember As We Grow Older*
#9 Death is the number 1 killer in the world.
#8 Life is sexually transmitted.
#7 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
#6 Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky panky, and they can’t tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.
#5 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.
#4 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.
#3 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
#2 In the 60’s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
#1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today may be a burning issue tomorrow.
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day. Teach a man to fish and he has to buy bamboo rods, graphite reels, monofilament lines, neoprene waders, creels, tackle boxes, lures, flies, spinners, worm rigs, slip sinkers, offset hooks, gore-tex hats, 20 pocket vests, fish finders, depth sounders, radar, boats, trailers, global positioning systems, coolers, and six-packs of beer.
According to Lewis Grizzard Baptists do not have sex standing up because someone may see them and think they are dancing.
Haven’t heard from Mark or anyone. Did talk to my cardiologist nurse. My last tests were fine. I am in good shape for shape I am in.
Well, my battery life may be longer than mine, but it probably will last at least 6 more years according to the Medtronic technician.
Jackie, based on your commentary; it is fair to say I’ve never seen any Baptist’s dancing at music festivals.
Jackie, I have known of cases where blockage was detected by angiogram during the heart catheterization, and then after recovery the patient was given the option to return to the cath lab for balloon angioplasty and stent placement if the cardiologist felt that was a viable option. That would take a bit longer and might require an overnight stay for additional recovery.
The first angiography I had they were so certain I would have stints and balloons at least, they admitted me to hospital in advance, explaining this would take place on same day. I even got a lecture on bypass in case that happened.
I don’t know why they expected that because it didn’t happen. There was nothing there. A second cardiologist did same thing, nothing. I no longer believe so faithfully as to agree and question every test but usually agree if they are not too invasive.
Must have a black heart?
Jackie, if there are no blockages then they will need to look more closely to find out what was causing the symptoms that got you in there in the first place. Our hearts are very complex and subject to all manner of dysfunctions, including electrical problems.
In my case I have a Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB) which is a fancy way of saying my ventricles don’t beat together because of an electrical problem in the nerves of the heart. That caused my left ventricle to swell up like an old, worn out balloon and quit pumping effectively (dilated cardiomyopathy) and resulted in ventricular fibrillation.
Other people develop thickening of the heart muscles which makes them too stiff. Others have atrial fibrillation going on.
So, if anyone needs to know what’s really going on with their hearts they need to look at the electrical (EKG), the structural (cardiogram or MRI), and in some cases the genetic aspects (family medical history). My brother (1973) and my dad (1989) died of SCAs. I had mine in 2009 in a public place near the EMTs, so I was sustained by CPR until they brought in the AED and shocked my heart back into a normal rhythm. Later the cardiologist had a CRT-D installed and I’m fairly well back to normal now.
Too much info, I know! So if you have unpleasant symptoms go in and ask questions until they figure out what was wrong.
Trucker, I do. My thoracic surgeon keeps me on as a regular patient he sees. He says I always make him laugh and smile. My endocrinologist is also a cardiologist, as is my sleep disorder physician and my thyroid doctor and all their assistants. Sometimes I feel over supplied with heart doctors since I don’t really think of myself as having heart disease.
My daughter has what you have. That I think of as disease.
Just heard from Mark. He is in hospital and has bypass surgery scheduled for Wednesday. They found major blockage and he will have multiple bypasses done.
He has his phone with him right now and is a regular room, not ICU yet. He will be off work several weeks.
I’m glad Mark got a diagnosis in time to clear it up instead of waiting until he felt “sick enough” to go do something about it. Many of us guys are too stubborn!