heart attacks | heart attacks
Sep.11.2012
For those of you who followed my journey through cardio-infarctland -- near fatal heart attacks in January and March 2011, near fatal open heart surgery a year ago -- I have an update.
On last week's visit, my first in six months, my cardiologist, the sainted Dr. Munoz, handed my wife and me the...
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Aug.22.2012
My novel, DRINKING CLOSER TO HOME, is based on events that happened to my family over the course of years. The novel starts when the three grown children return home to their mother who has just suffered a severe heart attack. While they’re waiting for her to live or die, the novel...
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Mar.16.2012
My most recent piece is up at THE BROAD STREET REVIEW. You can read it here:
http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/heart_attack_par... It begins:
Following my second heart attack, I was in the hospital 16 days. I came out 15-pounds lighter than I had gone in. ...
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Feb.13.2012
My latest piece is up at Broad Street Review. It begins:
My second heart attack came one day short of two months after my first.
I was leaving cardio-rehab, ten sessions into a projected 36. I had set personal bests on the treadmill and the stationary and recumbent bikes. But pain had...
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Feb.03.2012
Some people are down right mean, I don't care if they are your relatives! Then there were my other grandmothers, such as Tiny Grandma, my mother’s grandmother. She was also meaner than a snake, even if she was in a wheelchair! You dare not hand her your baby or she’d pinch
them, just to make...
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Feb.03.2012
Some people are down right mean, I don't care if they are your relatives! Then there were my other grandmothers, such as Tiny Grandma, my mother’s grandmother. She was also meaner than a snake, even if she was in a wheelchair! You dare not hand her your baby or she’d pinch
them, just to make...
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Aug.09.2011
My latest piece is up at Broad Street Review. It's opening paragraph is:
When I suffered a heart attack earlier this year, the surgeons solved my problem by inserting two stents into my completely blocked obtuse marginal artery. (For that account, click here.) A month later I re-entered the...
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Mar.09.2011
My latest piece at Broad Street Review is available here: http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/my_heart_attack_....
However, I prefer my unedited version, so I am putting that below. (That way when the critics are through with Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish, they can something...
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Apr.22.2010
First of all if you're having one it would probably hurt too much. To laugh.
This past Sunday when I thought I was having one. A heart attack. I wasn't laughing. I was too busy sweating from the sharp pain and burning sensation shooting across my chest.
Peg and I were hiking in the late morning...
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Jul.01.2009
Would you like a ‘Quadruple Bypass Burger’? Would you like to get a heart attack? At 8000 calories, the juicy stacked snack that is served at the Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona, comes with a medical disclaimer.
Is this supposed to be funny? The restaurant has a hospital theme, the staff...
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