Okay, I'm not a big fan of winter at the best of times - and this sort of thing certainly doesn't help ( Read more... )

I was planning to go on at great length about my five days of convalescence at the mercy of the Florida Hospital Orlando, but really - who wants to hear old people going on about their health? Next, I'll be pinching your cheeks and asking if you're married yet. I'll try to stick to the highlights (or lowlights) and if I start going off on tangents ( Read more... )

Considering the ordeal that a few days in the hospital can become - especially given the least-effort type service that seems to permeate every aspect of American commerce these days - the heart attack itself was almost the highlight of the whole affair ( Read more... )

So it's almost exactly one week since I had my first full-blown heart attack - one of an ongoing and seemingly endless series of events that has kept me from updating this journal much beyond terse private entries like "The fucking air conditioning has gone out again! I HATE LIFE ( Read more... )