Today is our last day in the U.S. for some time--J may be back in September for a conference in Colorado, but we won't have any "home leave" until we have been in Malaysia for at least six months. We...
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Or, The End of the Angina Monologues and On To Something Completely Different I always knew I was going to have a heart attack. Following the diagnosis of my stable angina condition in 2004 and the steady state of my...
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I was discharged from the hospital on Friday, after spending two nights in the ICU and three nights in the normal medical ward. That sounds like a long time and felt like even longer--in the U.S. I think I would...
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Today (well, yesterday, really, but since I was born in Texas, I'm going to go with Texas time for this post) I turn 42, which as most of you know, is the magic number from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the...
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We maxed out our thirty days of temporary housing today, so had to check out of the Traders hotel and actually switch over to our new rental house, which we had the keys too since Friday, August 1, the day...
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After several back and forths with my DC cardiologist, I've settled on returning to DC for the follow-up catheterization to my episode of 1 August. It wasn't necessarily my first choice. While we've got lots of friends in DC and...
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In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent's house is demolished to make room for a bypass just as Earth is similarly demolished to make room for a hyperspacial bypass. The highway construction argument from both sets of construction...
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For the last few of you who read this blog and didn't see a notification elsewhere, the bypass surgery went fine--I was done "off pump" (which means that my heart continued to beat the entire time they had my chest...
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After a month in Maryland following all the medical trials and tribulations and resultant recovery period, I was released to return to Malaysia on October 25. A 24-hour trip (19 of which on the same plane from Newark to Singapore,...
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It's been two weeks since I last posted, which wasn't a comment on how little things are going on, but basically how much. Here's the highlights: I returned to Malaysia at the end of October, only three-and-a-half weeks after my...
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Okay, I swear this is going to be the last post for quite awhile on my health. Really. I hope. Went to the Prince Court Resort, as we've come to call it (full name: Prince Court Medical Centre), on the...
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