Hello, all. Hope all are doing well and staying their courses.
Special thoughts to Cici, who checked in with us last week and was to be having her AVR today, I believe. I'm sure everyone here is rooting for her and will love to hear her thoughts again on STC as her recovery proceeds.
I believe LinH, among others, gave her helpful advice, including the desirability of having a recliner for your at-home recovery. I will second that. Certainly it's not essential; you can use pillows and cushions or whatnot and do fine. But I found a recliner to be my best friend (well other than my family members) after my open-heart surgeries in 2005 and 2019.The latest time around I splurged and got a lift recliner that will take me up or down to virtually any angle. It's especially helpful in taking you practically upright so you can stand up without having to exert pressure on your chest to do so. Even now, a year out of my 2019 OHS, I find this helpful, especially since I have an incisional hernia in the upper abdomen that I will be consulting with a specialist about before long. Finally, my cardio got me scheduled for a CT-Scan on the 25th, so we'll see what's what with the heart and the hernia, hopefully.
BTW, if purchasing a recliner doesn't work in the family budget, I understand recliners are available for rent for a few weeks or months.
As regulars here know, I am a weather freak, so I am following Hurricane Sally closely as it approaches the Gulf coast tonight. It's advancing painfully slowly -- 2 mph at last report -- which means it is dumping huge rainfall totals. Some places (like Pensacola) could get 20 to even 30 inches, which obviously could threaten lives and property. The remnants are expected to visit us here on Carolina shores Wednesday through Friday -- lots of thunderstorms, several inches of rain, but not likely the impacts now being experienced in Mississippi, (and especially) Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Gorgeous sunrise today on Carolina shores but thunderstorms expected to start this afternoon.
This Friday the 18th will be the one-year anniversary of my aortic aneurysm and valve replacement surgery at UNC/Chapel Hill. I think my family should have cake and ice cream for me, don't you think? Party time! Maybe I will write about some of my UNC memories later this week or next.
Also on my calendar is our annual community heart walk -- the Waccamaw Heart Walk (named in honor of one of our local Indian tribes). My wife, a stroke survivor, and I have participated in every Walk since we moved here 11 years ago. It is a joyful happening, lots of celebration of survivors, lots of help for those confronting their cardiac challenges. Thanks to COVID, though, this year's walk, October 17, will be drastically different -- no walking en masse, in fact all walking on our own, at home or wherever, not in a central locale. Details aren't out yet but somehow we will be in touch with other solo walkers around the country, thanks to technology. I hope this doesn't mean all will be walking with their noses stuck in their smart phones. One happy note is that I finally will be able to take my Elliedawg on a Heart Walk. She's too aggressive toward other dogs for me to take her on a big community walk but a virtual one should be just fine.
Ah the wonders of our linked-up world!
Okay, enough of my rambling. Let's hear what's on the minds of our hardy Coursers this week.
Cheers,
Superbob
Special thoughts to Cici, who checked in with us last week and was to be having her AVR today, I believe. I'm sure everyone here is rooting for her and will love to hear her thoughts again on STC as her recovery proceeds.
I believe LinH, among others, gave her helpful advice, including the desirability of having a recliner for your at-home recovery. I will second that. Certainly it's not essential; you can use pillows and cushions or whatnot and do fine. But I found a recliner to be my best friend (well other than my family members) after my open-heart surgeries in 2005 and 2019.The latest time around I splurged and got a lift recliner that will take me up or down to virtually any angle. It's especially helpful in taking you practically upright so you can stand up without having to exert pressure on your chest to do so. Even now, a year out of my 2019 OHS, I find this helpful, especially since I have an incisional hernia in the upper abdomen that I will be consulting with a specialist about before long. Finally, my cardio got me scheduled for a CT-Scan on the 25th, so we'll see what's what with the heart and the hernia, hopefully.
BTW, if purchasing a recliner doesn't work in the family budget, I understand recliners are available for rent for a few weeks or months.
As regulars here know, I am a weather freak, so I am following Hurricane Sally closely as it approaches the Gulf coast tonight. It's advancing painfully slowly -- 2 mph at last report -- which means it is dumping huge rainfall totals. Some places (like Pensacola) could get 20 to even 30 inches, which obviously could threaten lives and property. The remnants are expected to visit us here on Carolina shores Wednesday through Friday -- lots of thunderstorms, several inches of rain, but not likely the impacts now being experienced in Mississippi, (and especially) Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Gorgeous sunrise today on Carolina shores but thunderstorms expected to start this afternoon.
This Friday the 18th will be the one-year anniversary of my aortic aneurysm and valve replacement surgery at UNC/Chapel Hill. I think my family should have cake and ice cream for me, don't you think? Party time! Maybe I will write about some of my UNC memories later this week or next.
Also on my calendar is our annual community heart walk -- the Waccamaw Heart Walk (named in honor of one of our local Indian tribes). My wife, a stroke survivor, and I have participated in every Walk since we moved here 11 years ago. It is a joyful happening, lots of celebration of survivors, lots of help for those confronting their cardiac challenges. Thanks to COVID, though, this year's walk, October 17, will be drastically different -- no walking en masse, in fact all walking on our own, at home or wherever, not in a central locale. Details aren't out yet but somehow we will be in touch with other solo walkers around the country, thanks to technology. I hope this doesn't mean all will be walking with their noses stuck in their smart phones. One happy note is that I finally will be able to take my Elliedawg on a Heart Walk. She's too aggressive toward other dogs for me to take her on a big community walk but a virtual one should be just fine.
Ah the wonders of our linked-up world!
Okay, enough of my rambling. Let's hear what's on the minds of our hardy Coursers this week.
Cheers,
Superbob
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