On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:21:46 -0700, Winston
wrote:

On 4/19/2010 7:59 PM, Don Foreman wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:03:56 -0700,
wrote:

On 4/18/2010 11:45 PM, Don Foreman wrote:

(...)

She was feeling MUCH better an hour after admission at the ER. Heart
rate more under control, BP back up to within range of livable, color
improved, feelin' much better after infusion of 2 units of blood and a
liter of some other juice.

She has a great guy looking after her.

--Winston

She deserves it, and I'm not the jealous type!

You wanted a compliment for Doc as well?

Well all right. He is a swell guy, too.

--Winston

The professionals and good people there are amazing.

The did a cardioversion today. Her BP is now right at target and her
heart is ticking in perfect cadence.

I expressed interest in the elastic bands they use for popping a vein
for insertion of a blood-draw needle. The woman doing that wondered
why I was interested. I said I thought such bands would be useful
when bedding rifle actions.

Oh! No problem, she gave me the band she used and another from a
previous patient. Turns out she's a riflewoman from Zimmerman MN,
likes her 7mm but also wants to go hunt grizzly bear with a rifle
beginning with a .4. She also raises dogs, plans to name her next
dog Ruger.

Know how we guessed she might be a bit nontraditional? Her hair. Mar
and I both picked up on that. Not wild or bizarro, just long-cut and
a bit unusual for early gray. Quiet rebel gentle dedicated caregiver.
Later, when I wasn't there, another caregiver stuck Mary and Mar asked
if she could have the elastic band. The caregiver was suspicious. We
thought she might suspect drug abuse as in heroin injection, but her
concern was suicide! We learned that those elastic bands have been
known to be used for suicide. Mar explained that her hub was far more
interested in accurizing rifles than in suicide.

Mar's sense of humor and pungent dry wit is intact. She had me, son
Davy and a couple of nurses in stitches a couple of times.

Busy day tomorrow, several probes and procedures on the agenda. The
objective is to find the internal blood leak and fix it. We're very
optimistic.

I missed my 3 miles today but occasional pass isn't abandonment of
regimen. Few survivors maintain a regimen two years after the fact,
and most of those who fail don't survive subsequent attacks. I keep
truckin' because I intend to survive as long as life is good. Up the
hill, eeeyahh.

If and when life really sucks with only prognosis of getting worse, I
certainly won't check out via elastic band around my throat. That
sounds gawd awful. It would result in oblivion in a few seconds if
done right but I don't see how it could be done right with an elastic
band. Quick oblivion requires stoppage by compression of certain neck
arteries or veins. I don't see how an elastic band could do that
because doing that manually requires administration of point (thumb)
pressure at exactly the right sites.

A quiet .22 hollowpoint neatly and instantly does the job.