I appreciate your thoughts and well-wishes. My dad is doing fine. The catheter revealed major blockage in one of his arteries, which they addressed with a stent, and minor blockage in a couple other arteries. This is good news, insofar as atherosclerosis is ever good news, because the blockage wasn't bad enough to merit a bypass. I left the ( Read more... )

My dad went to the hospital Thursday night with chest pain radiating into his jaw and left arm. It subsided with one dose of nitro and his first troponin test said 0, but they kept him overnight and then it went up. His EKG was fine, his echo didn't show any structural damage to his heart, and the troponin was going down, so we hoped he would be ( Read more... )

We've all seen the panic stories in major magazines and newspapers, where they trot out a couple photos of morbidly obese kids and scream about how ZOMG AMERICAN KIDS ARE FUCKING FATTIES. This piece on Lawyers Guns & Money provides some interesting facts about the statistics being bandied about by scare-mongers, as well as a likely motive for said ( Read more... )