Under the Knife

[realthog]

 
On Tuesday I'm to have an angiogram/cardiac catheterization. As far as I can gather -- me, the ever-courageous male an' all -- this involves ripping apart my groin with a chain saw and then jackhammering a probe about the size of a rolling pin up through my circulatory system, shredding soft tissue as it goes, until it can take a photograph of my heart. Pam says it's a tad less traumatic than this, but then it's not her groin. All this so my cardiologist has something he can post on Facebook.

I don't imagine I'll be merrily hopping astride a stolen Harley to get home from the hospital. Indeed, it may well be that I require a year or two of convalescence, not to mention extensive counselling; I plan to take plenty of books with me. Assuming I actually make it home on Tuesday -- as all these Other, Totally Unsympathetic People say I should -- well, I expect major-league tributes to my general all-fired heroism and traditional British pluck.

(Hm. The last time I had my groin ripped apart must have been the early '70s or so. But apparently my insurance company refuses to cover cold ravioli and live marmosets.)

(What I'm really, really hoping to be able to do is get to the book party whose details you can find at http://al-zorra.livejournal.com/305706.html.)

 

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[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Paul and Pam were there, so it went fabulously!

Thank you for asking.

That Paul came at all, considering the mess our region was in terms of air quality, the traffic messes because many reasons including protests against a bad non-juried trial that acquitted all the cops in question of all charges of killing a non-armed, non-criminal act black man on the eve of his wedding, as he was going home from his bachelor party, and Paul recovering from his ordeal -- that they were present was a true blessing on the event on their part.

I met the music director of The Wire ... who also autographed The Wire's cd for me. I nearly swooned, and I never do that -- not even when I encounter in very personal ways people of the ilk of Bob Dylan. But I am such an admirer of The Wire.

Love, C.