Bob,
Sorry to hear about your encounter with the health-care machine but
glad it turned out OK in the end. Welcome back.
Charlie
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Well, I'm back. Got No. 1 Son married over the Columbus Day weekend.
> Somehow he managed to hook himself a gorgeous young Persian-American lass
> named Shiva. She's getting her master's in library science and information
> systems. She speaks fluent Mac, which is good, because we all use Macs, and
> No. 1 son's name is Mac, though she knows him as Duncan. <g>
>
> I also got to spend a couple of days in hospital after an apparent TIA
> (transient ischemic attack). Getting up from adjusting a carpet, whole left
> side a'tingle, then numb. Felt my words slurring as I tried to tell Esteemed
> Wife I was having a stroke. Then it passed like water pouring out of a
> glass. Doc said go to Emergency Room, which I did, at which time I fell down
> the rabbit hole known as TIA protocol. Immediately had blood work and CAT
> scan. Admitted to ICU's telemetry unit to watch the old ticker. At 6 a.m. I
> went down for echo-cardiogram and ultrasound of the arteries in my neck. A
> couple of hours later, it was MRI time.
>
> Turns out my head doesn't fit in the MRI helmet. Vertical bar was crushing
> my nose. They had to take out the padding behind my head before they could
> run the test. Ever been inside a trash can with Woody Woodpecker training on
> a jackhammer outside? Phew!
>
> At any rate, I'm all clear. My doc thinks it was something called a
> "watershed", which mimics a TIA but really isn't.
>
> The nurses were superb, and the oatmeal, prepared the old fashioned way in
> a double boiler and slow cooked, was divine. And I don't even like oatmeal.
>
> Currently, I'm bedeviling myself with transferring my system over to a new
> MacBook Pro. Not sure how I like Lion yet. It's hell on software, but it's
> nice, too. Oh, well. May be my last upgrade now that SJ has assumed room
> temperature. Sigh.
>
> Still playing with the 10-stop ND filter, but I don't have anything to post
> at the moment. It's all in the Twilight Zone between the two computers. I
> hope to get everything up and running in a week or so. Also have to clean
> out my studio, take a flamethrower to it and reassemble, only this time
> making more room. Not sure how that's going to happen.
>
> Such is life.
>
> Pax Lasagna,
>
> --Bob
>
> Oh, yeah, did have a nice visit with John Hudson and his lovely wife. They
> were slumming in the states and dropped in. And I expect to see his
> Mooseness and his far better half, Carol, in the next couple of days,
> assuming the rented Moosewagon hasn't broken down somewhere in the
> hinterlands of the greater metro-Boston area.
>
>
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