Thanks to All

[arisbe]

Thank you for your good wishes.  Got home around eight last night minus two stones but with something called a stent inserted up into the kidney.  This time it shouldn't be in there long enough for stones to grow on it like rock candy on a string.  The radiologist (not the pretty one) noticed something he didn't like in the EKG which will be the topic of further discussion.  Evidently something that isn't threatening to do anything, but which will have to be taken into account if my heart should ever, in Mel Brook's immortal phrase, attack me.  Indeed, it's the sort of thing it leaves behind when it does, but if it did I was paying attention to something else at the time, though as far as I know it's not the sort of thing you would miss.  Unless you're mostly Irish or something.

I am pleasantly sleepy and will take advantage of the fact, and of the fact that the web site I would be otherwise be working on seems to have been disabled by a server migration.

The air coming in the bathroom window smells good;  it's a happy time of year, and maybe I can get away with unsealing the bedroom window.

Cheers, all.

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Comments

[lizzie_borden]

If you keep getting these kidney stones you'll have enough to make a necklace. I hope you feel better very very soon.

[sweetfuckall.livejournal.com]

Haha! Too funny!

Wishing you a speedy recovery, as well!

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Thanks, guys!

I'm afraid that when they got through with them there was nothing left but something that looks suspiciously like Turkish coffee grounds. Can't say I miss 'em, though.

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[canonjohn.livejournal.com]

Sounds positive, Frank - hope the recovery goes smoothly/

I am reading of a book (A Long Retreat) by Andew Krivak. In it, Krivak
talks about being a regular at St Michael's in NYC in the early 90s...it may have been
for only a semester, while he was a Jesuit scholastic doing philosophy studies at
Fordham. Anyway, it reminded me of you and I wondered if you knew him back
then. BTW, it's a good book.

Watch that heart - and God keep you safe and healthy!
john

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Don't know the book. I think the author was a little before my time.

Will follow up on the heart thing, but the fellow who noticed it remarked that I might have had it for 20 years without knowing it. I said, How about 60, and he said maybe 60. Then again, it might have been some sort of false positive caused by the testing voltage, as the grown-ups were discussing. A visit to the specialist could clear that up. Will keep the LJ world informed.