Maybe being a little bit of a hypochondriac is a good? thing. I have been a little bit in denial about the pain in my chest after exerting myself, but the last straw was being incapacitated by walking up the stairs in my house, just one flight. Those tiny little nitro tablets you stick under your tongue work but taste really bad and burn. After a treadmill test it was determined that a closer look at my heart was in order. The gold standard test, an Angiogram with possible intervention was scheduled and the scan showed that I had a small kink in the Left Anterior Descending Artery.

There are three arteries that run over the surface of the heart and supply it with blood. There is one artery on the right side and two arteries on the left side of the heart. The one on the right is known as the right coronary.  On the left side, which is the main side, we have the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) that runs down the front of the heart and supplies the front and main wall, and then the left circumflex that supplies the side wall. The next person that tries to tell me about the wonderful design of the human body is going to get an earful. Three arteries to supply the most important muscle in the body with oxygenated blood the failure of any one can kill you but the Widow Maker is so critical that the patient will often not survive a blockage. If the heart attack is not fatal a large part of the heart muscle will die because of lack of oxygen.

This artery supplies the front and but because I was so hysterical (there is no crying in the cath lab) the Doc could not control the leakage and the fix would have to be done the next day. I am now the proud owner of two Eluting Coronary stents opening the blockage in my LAD more commonly referred to the Widow Maker, who the hell names these things. After the procedure the LAD was completely clear with no discernable blockages at all. As a layman I seems to me that the problem I had was very localized and not systemic. Maybe there would be more blockages but there was no indication at all.

On a lighter note can someone explain just what is going on in this photo.

I can imagine all sorts of explanations but the correct one is probably innocent. Nice knickers though.

Maybe I just don’t appreciate women’s tennis.

CS

It has been a while since I posted any new material, not that there is a shortage of things that I would like to post. The raw fact is that I am now struggling with rapidly advancing brain fog, anyone have a volcano? There have been nice spanking scenes in new media like Outlander when Claire calls Jaime a sadist and he tells her “I donna ken what that means but I told ya I was going to punish you. I didna say I wasn’t going to enjoy it” while he applied a folded belt to her very sweet naked behind.  Maybe he did ken what it meant after all. Scene fades out but she is still so sore the next morning that she declines the offer to sit down and eat her porridge. The whole thing is that Jamie swears never to do it again Damn!

There was a strange little SciFi flick “Under the Skin.” Scarlett Johansson is in various stages of undress in the movie and completely naked towards the end. Her body is nice but that is not what I liked about it, she projects the feeling that she is completely comfortable and not obsessed with the little flaws that even totally gorgeous  women will exhibit, that is totally awesome! She is filming Ghost in the shell and I expect her to be just as open as any woman with a completely artificial body…well you know.

Still trying to remember other thing I have seen and wanted to comment about but I feel like I am easily dist  ohh look a cat!

My main man Mr Worf apple head Chihuahua and wing man extraordinaire unexpectedly died last December. I though he fell asleep on the way to the Vet but as soon as I picked him up it was painfully obvious that his time had come. It was kind of humiliating for me to be sitting in the Vet’s waiting room, tears running down my face and the Vet’s assistant comes out of the treatment room. I looked up at her and cried that he didn’t make it. They did try unsuccessfully to revive the little guy but to no avail. His mug shot.

As you can see he wasn’t well cared for until abandoned on the sidewalk in a crate with a bag of dog food on top.

Recent Fat Doggie

As you can see he was loved or at least well fed.

IN MEMORIAM

I don’t know if you can see but there is one of my favorite pictures, a poem contributed but my Vet, A small plaster casting of his footprints and some fur clippings.

TTFN Crankyspanker