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Cheat Day

I don’t cheat, as a general rule. Since nearly a year ago, when I found out my body was starting to fall apart, with one ailment found after another for months on end, I have been on a pretty strict diet. I’m diabetic, so My Lovely Bride™ and I switched to a Low-Carb diet, nearly […]

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Finally!

So the other day I had a phone appointment with my Cardiothorasic surgeon, regarding my upcoming heart surgery. You know, the long-delayed, much-anticipated but also somewhat feared heart surgery. The one that will fix the Atrial Septum Defect (ASD) I was apparently born with (and have lived with, unknowingly, for the last 51 years), as […]

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Hurry up and Wait

So, that didn’t take long. Except that it absolutely did. Seven hours. My Lovely Bride™ and I spent seven hours dealing with my exam and consult at my surgeon’s office, including travel time to and from. Due to this, I got no sleep at all, and had to call off from work. Yay, another sick […]

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Medical Update

By the time you see this post, I will have learned all about this information for a day or so, but I didn’t want to post officially about it until I had had a chance to absorb it all. So, here you go: My heart’s broken. Apparently, I was born with a congenital heart defect […]