Your Sewn Vein
So during my Tuesday checkup I tell my doctor honestly and with no malice aforethought that I have no history of heart disease. What does Mom go and do? Friday she decides having a massive heart attack will make that simple declaration a lie. Of all the nerve! How inconsiderate!
I joke, I joke. She's fine, awaiting a triple bypass, surgery that has become ever more routine and less and less invasive. I spent yesterday with brother mcfnord chatting and getting her laughing. I don't know if it was our keen senses of humor or the morphine drip, but laugh she did.
Still, Mom's heart attack and impending surgery has got me thinking about how dismally medical information is disseminated. For example, take a bypass operation. A section of vein from the leg is cut and replaced by an artificial section (Dacron, I think). The natural vein material then replaces the heart's problematic tissue, veins and arteries clogged with too much good food. This natural material is better suited than the artificial material to withstanding the rigors the heart endures. The leg? It'll heal and work well with the new stuff.
People need to know this stuff. Perhaps by song. As Dr. Carly Simon might put it:
Your sewn vein
Is a surgical link to reroute goo. . . .
I joke, I joke. She's fine, awaiting a triple bypass, surgery that has become ever more routine and less and less invasive. I spent yesterday with brother mcfnord chatting and getting her laughing. I don't know if it was our keen senses of humor or the morphine drip, but laugh she did.
Still, Mom's heart attack and impending surgery has got me thinking about how dismally medical information is disseminated. For example, take a bypass operation. A section of vein from the leg is cut and replaced by an artificial section (Dacron, I think). The natural vein material then replaces the heart's problematic tissue, veins and arteries clogged with too much good food. This natural material is better suited than the artificial material to withstanding the rigors the heart endures. The leg? It'll heal and work well with the new stuff.
People need to know this stuff. Perhaps by song. As Dr. Carly Simon might put it:
Your sewn vein
Is a surgical link to reroute goo. . . .