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Re: [OM] Back after many harrowing adventures

Subject: Re: [OM] Back after many harrowing adventures
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:50:59 -0400
I hope you will be okay Bob.

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On 10/18/2011 2:31 PM, Bob Whitmire 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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