MiddleFingerMom
MiddleFingerMom's JournalOff to the hospital.
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Surgery scheduled at 9 AM AZ time.
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Thanks a lot!!!!!
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MiddleFingerMom is really buff... ... ... OK, OK... MiddleFingerMom really buffs it a lot.
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MFM called MsMFM once to say he'd be home from the bar at 10 PM. This is what he THOUGHT he saw...
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... when he staggered up to the front door at 4:15 AM.
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Badasses For World Peace -- their first PSA:
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Actually Getting Married Tip #1: Brides should wait until AFTER the wedding before letting one rip.
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Even though it's just Kali (OK, and her immediate family) within miles of the joint...
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... they opened one of these establishments in her front yard.
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It's their highest-grossing franchise in North America.
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Graywarrior lost a TON of money on a sports bet once. Only once.
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If only hate-filled fundies could see THIS light when it comes to social/political beliefs.
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This is not from a "sign-generator site". I Googled it and this is a real church
that features this sign (and comments from their pastor) prominently on
their homepage.
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***Gets his Staple Gun out and posts a sign announcing new boobs at the Library*** (copycat thread)
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MiddleFingerMom's Achy Breaky Heart Season 2
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First the two good newses.
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#1. I am still Fucking Immortal.
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#2. This is eminently fixable... and I'm about to have it eminently fixed.
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Although I haven't mentioned it, I haven't been feeling all that great lately. Some of my nasty
ol' heart symptoms have returned -- albeit in a much reduced fashion.
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Went for a major checkup a month or two ago. Turns out two of the sutures holding my
mechanical heart valve in place have loosened and it's leaking. Not bleeding, but backwashing
so that it isn't pumping all the blood it should be. 23% leakage. A little short-of-breath again.
Energy levels WAY down... napping a lot during the day (although I'm actually sleeping better
at night). The last several days -- dizziness twice while simply watching TV -- a sign of the
old heart flutter/fibrillation again.
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I'm not sure I would let them crack my chest open again. Last year was horrific and I'm still
feeling the effects of all the complications that set in. PLUS the fact that all the physical
trauma to my sternum and chest muscles make me a less-than-optimal patient for a repeat.
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Good news again. I talked with a surgeon who went to Europe to learn what is experimental
surgery in this country (though done very successfully there for a while). A young woman
who impressed the hell out of me with her confidence and her candor (she reminds me of
my cousin/godmother -- my hero/mentor/role model -- who became an ubereffective doctor
in the mid-60's, when only 7% of practicing physicians were women).
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This surgeon actually told me that (at the time of that exam), she had only performed ONE
of the procedures I'm about to undergo on Wednesday morning. When I saw her today,
she told me that she's done six more (when I finally asked the BIG question, she answered
"I'm happy to say that they were ALL successful!!!"
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Check out the name of the procedure. A precutaneous perivalvular repair. She'll go in through
the femoral artery in my upper inner thigh (cringeworthingly close to the boys, it'll be) and
send a catheter up to the valve in my heart. THEN, she'll attach two "clamshell clamps"
(about 10mm across) to the two holes surrounding the valve. Tissue will eventually grow
around these clamps cementing them in place and increasing their effectiveness.
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If all goes well, it will just be an overnight stay (I'll have to act quickly if I wanna talk a
coupla nurses into one o' those tagteam bedbaths).
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Today was all the exam/pictures/bloodwork/counseling stuff and it was a nightmare.
Everything and everyone was late, the buses were all fucked up, it was one of the WORST
scorchers yet this summer (at least subjectively for me 100 degrees 68% humidity) and I
actually fucked up and went home before everything was done and HAD TO FUCKING GO BACK!!!
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But all is done and all is set for the procedure Wednesday morning (tentatively at 8 AM
Arizona time -- but that could change at any moment).
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I'll be taking my laptop in with me, just in case I have any kind of unexpected extended
stay. I don't know how much I'll feel like posting Wednesday night, but hopefully Kali
will either get through to me or my ward nurse and fill you in with an update.
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No need to worry. Just repeat to yourself, "Well, he IS Fucking Immortal."
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Profile Information
Gender: MaleHome country: U.S.A.
Current location: Arizona
Member since: Thu Dec 31, 2009, 04:49 PM
Number of posts: 25,163
