rescheduling news

[realthog]

 
There's been a fair amount of schedule-juggling to be done -- because my NEW, IMPROVED, BUY ONE GET ONE FREE double operation requires the presence of a vascular surgeon to do the work on my neck arteries as well as the heart surgeon to do the bypasses -- but at last a date has been fixed.

Monday, June 2.

Ulp.

Monday somehow seems very much closer than it did a few minutes ago.

 

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[realthog.livejournal.com]

I'll be in the Jug for about a week, and won't have internet access while there. Pam is compiling a list of people to whom she'll e-mail updates, and I've asked her to add you to it.

I gather there's a "heart maintenance program", or some such, which sounds to me like physical therapy, two or three times a week, I think; that'll carry on for quite a while, and I hope can be done somewhere closer than St Joe's, Paterson, which is quite a trek from here.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

I thought there might some kind of thing like that.

When we were at Tulane I had the use of the Tulane Sports and Recreation Center -- i.e., gym, etc. Associated with it was a Cardio Therapy Center with the programs for post op cardiac patients, and they were part of the users of the place. Tulane has one of the oldest medical schools in the U.S. -- and it pioneered tropical disease medicine and research, btw.

Thanks for putting me on the update list. I appreciate it.

Love, C.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I'm looking forward to getting some fitness stuff in. I played cricket well into my 40s, and always used to walk everywhere -- and walk pretty quickly at that. Since moving out here in NJ, however, until just a few months ago when a road renovation gave us a shoulder for the first time in memory, there's been nowhere I could walk without really quite considerable danger. Hence the lack of fitness and indeed trimness. And hence, quite probably, the need for these operations.