General Discussion

when I get a nasty message from some right winger. Those I correct and return with no comment.

The culprit, they think, was a 73% blocked carotid artery. The guess was a chunk had broken off. Two weeks later I had a new surgery called a T-Car: I will admit ignorance and never read the full procedure. It was a lot and I figured it was going to happen anyway--so I stopped reading part way through. LOL. Mike read all of it (probably ten times, and then he probably got to googling). Basically they cut me open on my neck, went digging around inside and put in a stent-but while they did that, they had to reverse the flow of blood into my brain, run it through a strainer and then they would.... and that's where I stopped reading because I could not get the picture of my mother straining raspberry jelly through cheesecloth to get out the seeds.

So, they strained me like a raspberry, patched it all, stitched me on the inside and glued me on the outside, and then all kind of stood back in shock as I did laps around the nurses station out of boredom while they kept me in ICU for-I don't know, five days? Something like that.

I will say that I was their favorite patient. However, there is a caveat. The guy to my north screamed he was dying for the four days and the guy on the left kept throwing full urinals and soda at the nursing staff. But, regardless, I was their favorite.