Just as I was heading out to work this morning, received a phone call that the long-suffering but always valiant SheBar had been taken to the ER with cardiac arrest symptoms
It happens she was on the other side of Tampa (Brandon) for a business meeting where (as I later learned) she was given a significant job promotion that not only gives her better overall hours (Mon-Fri) but will likely give her a pay boost of 40-50%.
So after that meeting she was doing some paperwork, felt the symptoms and had colleague call the Amber Lamps.
They got her to the ER in about 20 minutes and over next two hours did three angioplastys to clear 99% blockage in three different vessels, including the LAD. Installed two stints and may yet install a third.
She's in the ICU, critical, but very stable. Blood pressure, heart rate and other vitals are all excellent
She went to sleep a while ago and I'm now jumping back and forth across Tampa Bay to get her car back over here.
As I traveled over there in a 45minute ride this morning, I made several phone calls to her and to my family members. But I was sobered to realize that I only had a handful to make to "my" friends locally.
That's mainly due to my choice of work over the past 11 years being very cyber-based. I'm grateful to have many dozens of true Friends, but nearly all of them are in other cities or countries. And probably at least half are my fraternal brothers (and a few of you sisters) here at the Rx
I know many of you utilize prayer. Others may preefer other methods of support and I welcome them all, as will my wife because she is more than aware of the many friendly casual and also business relationships I've developed with various members of the Rx community during these past eight years.
Heading out now and will provide appropriate updates as they happen
It happens she was on the other side of Tampa (Brandon) for a business meeting where (as I later learned) she was given a significant job promotion that not only gives her better overall hours (Mon-Fri) but will likely give her a pay boost of 40-50%.
So after that meeting she was doing some paperwork, felt the symptoms and had colleague call the Amber Lamps.
They got her to the ER in about 20 minutes and over next two hours did three angioplastys to clear 99% blockage in three different vessels, including the LAD. Installed two stints and may yet install a third.
She's in the ICU, critical, but very stable. Blood pressure, heart rate and other vitals are all excellent
She went to sleep a while ago and I'm now jumping back and forth across Tampa Bay to get her car back over here.
As I traveled over there in a 45minute ride this morning, I made several phone calls to her and to my family members. But I was sobered to realize that I only had a handful to make to "my" friends locally.
That's mainly due to my choice of work over the past 11 years being very cyber-based. I'm grateful to have many dozens of true Friends, but nearly all of them are in other cities or countries. And probably at least half are my fraternal brothers (and a few of you sisters) here at the Rx
I know many of you utilize prayer. Others may preefer other methods of support and I welcome them all, as will my wife because she is more than aware of the many friendly casual and also business relationships I've developed with various members of the Rx community during these past eight years.
Heading out now and will provide appropriate updates as they happen