Good Morning Major.
I am so happy to be able to post today -or any day for that matter.
It was 7/31/92 that I finally concluded
three major surgeries and a 21 week protocol of chemo-therapy (that lasted 6 months) to come back home. I was so disoriented. My wife helped me out of the car, and even though it was painful, difficult, and trying I bent down and kissed the gound next to my old driveway outside my house. I'm not ashamed to say I teared up but it wasn't from pain.
Once inside she helped me downstairs to an easy chair. I sat there dis-oriented, light headed, slightly nauseated, and she kept patting my hand saying, "It's o.k. you're home". I guess she did that for 20 or 30 minutes and it finally dawned on me that I was home.
April 1999 I woke up in the middle of the night with intense chest pain that stretched all the way out of my chest and ran up my right arm to my wrist. The pain in my wrist was
throbbing twice as fast as the pain in my chest. I instantly told my wife that I was having a heart attack and to go get me two aspirins and call 911. She did so immiediately. I can remember the ambulance attendants asking if I could walk to the the ambulance and me telling them yes. I was so light headed and it was like I had a beehive in my head buzzing. That was on a Friday. I woke up the following Tuesday in intensive care. I received
three stents that I didn't know about until then. I was in the ICU for a total of 7 or 8 days; it's such a blur. Over the next 6 years I had to be stented 2 more times.
Yet, here I sit, at my PC, employed full time and still going. Darn if I'll ever know how -or why. It was a slow painful trip both times but somehow I'm still here.
I remember my heart Doctor asking me, "Do you remember the aspirins you took?"
I said "Yes."
He said, "If you hadn't taken those aspirins when you did......." his voice trailed off as he waved his right hand, and looking down he shook his head; I knew what he meant.
The amazing, mysterious, wonderful, joyous, sad, painful, pleasurable life we have grows even more precious when we share it with others.
Thank you Major for sharing with me; it is my honor to be able to share with you.
It remains a wonderful thing to see so many on here willing to add to their day by cheering and lifting another person up!
