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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13476 Posts

Posted - 02/19/2006 :  20:51:52  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
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
15831 Posts

Posted - 02/19/2006 :  21:15:03   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Oh, goodness sake, sorry about that close call. Get healthy soon, David!


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dude
SFN Die Hard

USA
6891 Posts

Posted - 02/19/2006 :  21:26:55   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
..... DOH!


quote:
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.


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

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Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
26020 Posts

Posted - 02/19/2006 :  22:17:52   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
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.

- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard

USA
4574 Posts

Posted - 02/19/2006 :  23:18:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message
Here's hoping for a speedy recovery, Kil.


"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
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Hawks
SFN Regular

Canada
1383 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  00:27:56   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Hawks's Homepage Send Hawks a Private Message
Congratulations on still being alive. Which gods did you pray to?

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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
14408 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  03:13:49   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
"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
5310 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  04:06:32   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Gorgo a Private Message
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]  Show Profile Send Starman a Private Message
Get well, Kil!
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie

USA
4826 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  06:29:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
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]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
Less eggrolls, too?
Aye, good friend, keep alive, will ye?

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- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"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
9687 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  07:26:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message
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.
quote:
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
2998 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  07:33:58   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
Here's to your speedy recovery! (sound of a beersoda clinking) :-)

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
13476 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  10:20:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message
Thanks everyone!


Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

Genetic Literacy Project
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard

USA
3834 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  12:08:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
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
4826 Posts

Posted - 02/20/2006 :  13:04:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message
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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