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Phyllis

December 18th will be one year since Dick had his AVR and on that date we will be driving South from CT to our home in Boca Raton, FL. It will be so nice to be heading South instead of North to Boston for surgery! :) We have so much to be thankful for this Holiday season - his good health and all the support and knowledge that this website affords is counted among our blessings. We wish you all a Happy and Healthy Holiday season and a New Year filled with blessings. We will be in touch again once we get to Boca - my laptop is never left behind!
 
A big congratulations to both of you! Time flies when you're having "fun"! Those first few months of recovery seem so long and the next thing you know it's been a year. Continued good health!
 
Congratulations to Dick and you!

My first year anniversary comes up pretty soon too ... Feb. 12 of next year. We just got back from 10 days in Mexico. We have also booked airfare for a couple of weeks in Paris (Feb. 1-15), and I just realized the other day that we will be celebrating the anniversary in France!

It seems really amazing, to think that just a year ago, I was "looking forward" [translate "dreading"] to open heart surgery!

The whole thing is a blur now, including the recovery period. I am sure there are unpleasant things that I am blocking out (the human memory is good at doing that, I suppose it is a survival mechanism, but right now I am remembering mostly the good stuff: how well and carefully I was cared for in the cardiac intensive unit, how concerned and careful my cardiologist, surgeon, etc., were. It does seem that the whole thing happened a lot longer time ago than it actually did. The other day I ran into an acquaintance I hadn't seen in a while and told her I had OHS in 2002! It does seem much longer ago than less than a year.

Life has really returned to normal with nothing but the daily ingestion of medication (cozaar and coreg) to remind me. (I'm supposed to see my cardio again in April just for him to check up on me.)
 
Congratulations Dick!!!

Enjoy the golf while you're in FL (I'm jealous :D).
 
Congratulations on your one year anniversary. It's definitely something to celebrate!
 
Congratulations on the milestone and have a wonderful time in FL!

*grins*

Your post reminded me that today (December 14th) is the 2-year anniversary that I met with the surgeon before my January 2003 surgery. We went in early on Saturday morning (yep, the 14th was a Saturday in 2002) to meet with the surgeon.

And, if that ain't enough...he he he. I realized (as I mentioned in another thread tonight), 2 months ago, the VR.com reunion was just beginning....

My how time flies...................


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Congratulations on reaching that milestone..........

Congratulations on reaching that milestone..........

and I hope y'all have a wonderful time. Happy anniversary and many, many more. Hugs.
 
Congratulations

Congratulations

Congratulations Dick and Phyllis on your first anniversary!!!

It must be such a joy and relief to be able to continue your active lifestyle uninterrupted. I hope you have a wonderful time in Florida. Next year at this time I look forward to celebrating with you (since I'm scheduled for 12/17).

Happy Holidays!
Martha
 
Thanks for all your good wishes. Here's an appropriate message I got today-everyone on this site "packs a good parachute".



>A good message for us all - Have a great day & thanks for helping pack my
> >parachute!
> >
> > Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat
> >missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb
> >ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6
> >years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now
> >lectures on lessons learned from that experience!
> >One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a
> >man at another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet
> >fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot
> >down!"
> >"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.
> >"I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in
> >surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it
> >worked !" Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I
> >wouldn't be here today."
> >
> >Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb
> >says, "I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a
> >white hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many
> >times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are
> >you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just
> >a sailor." Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long
> >wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and
> >folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate
> >of someone he didn't know.
> >
> >Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your
> >parachute?"Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it
> >through the day. He also points out that he needed many kinds of
> >parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory -- he needed
> >his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute,
> >and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before
> >reaching safety.
> >
> >Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what
> >is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you,
> >congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them,
> >give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go
> >through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your
> >parachutes.
> >
> >I am sending you this as my way of thanking you for your part in
> >packing my parachute. And I hope you will send it on to those who have
> >helped pack yours!
> >
> >Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us
> >without writing a word. Maybe this could explain it: When you are very
> >busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you do -- you forward
> >jokes. And to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still
> >important, you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you
> >get? A forwarded joke.
> >
> >So my friend, next time when you get a joke, don't think that
> >you've been sent just another forwarded joke, but that you've been
> >thought of today and your friend on the other end of your computer wanted
> >to send you a smile, just helping you pack your parachute
> >
> >
 
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