Oh, you are such a downer, Bob...
We are having such a bliss here and you come and ruin everything. Besides, it
is no surprise to anyone why your ever growing nose doesnt fit in the
helmet...:)
Glad you are ok now, Bob. Also glad that it was not the worst. Does that mean
that you didn't go to Acadia?
Congratulations on the wedding. May the newlyweds see many happy days.
Best
Boris
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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