Ummm, well, crap! [View all]

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I had a rare call with my best friend and immediate superior in Texas two days ago, and asked if things were going well "back there." He said, yeah, great, "it's a pretty good time to be us (present company included)." Well, I know for how many people that is NOT the case, so that put me in a good mood until I got a call from my cardiologist, and he said a routine 24-hour EKG showed up some serious extra heartbeats, and I needed to schedule an angiogram, possibly get an additional stent, or more serious intervention to correct the problem. He said it shouldn't be anything overly drastic, but the extra beats would continue weakening the heart muscle the longer I let it go untreated. I never let things like this drag on. In Germany, a cardiologist has no financial incentive to send me to a cardiac clinic to get procedures done, so I take such diagnoses seriously.

I don't mean to involve the DU board in my own little medical battles, but there are a few people that could conceivably ask what became of me if I should drop off the radar suddenly, and I don't want them badgering my wife about it. If I can get this done soon, and it goes well, I shouldn't be gone long anyway. If something goes wrong and I'm gone longer than expected, at least you will all know why. It will NOT be due to my disgust at some post or seeing some idiot primary result that I think shouldn't have happened, or whatever. Shit happens. If it should turn out NOT to happen to me this time, well, you'll hear no complaints from my end!