Kinky Stent...

Well, since I last posted to this tome, I spent about 4 hours in the hospital labs getting my second CAT scan. We had to wait so long after our appointment that they gave us a $30 gift certificate to a nice local restaurant for our trouble. So, a little bitching and being frustrated, does pay off some times...

Then, this morning, I called the doctor's office and asked about the results and was told to wait until the Dr checked it out and he would get back to me. After a long while, the nurse called back and said that the doctor did have a chance to check the CAT results and that I had a "Kinky Stent", meaning that the stent that I have in my left leg is kinked over and therefore blocking most of the blood flow for my left leg. The fix, is that they are going to have to go back in, read another operation, and replace the 'normal' stent with a heavier one that won't Kink.

After explaining it all to me, the nurse said that we will have to get right on it in a couple of weeks...(Skreech!) I said that I thought this was all going so fast and everybody was so excited about it, that it would happen way before then. Right now, if I walk around a large store, I am getting heavy leg pains and that I really would like to get this done before 'next year'. And, is this causing any damage to any of my 'natural' parts?

After a little hemming and hawing, she said that the doctor was leaving in a couple of hours for a two week vacation and he couldn't do it until he got back, but to be sure to take an aspirin every day just in case...

So, I guess I am on quarter power until 'next year' when the doctor gets back to work... And, then I have to go through the whole operation FUN again.

At this point, Christmas is pretty much cancelled with all these medical problems and all the work I have been trying to do, when I could, on the new product launch for Jan 1st. This will be the first Christmas that we will not have a tree, I/or Pam can remember.

We can barely get up the driveway with all the snow now, and the forecast is that it will get really crazy in the next couple of days. The 7 day forecast had snow in 6 of them for next week. Luckily, our great friend Storm, called and now has a snow blade on his truck and offered to scrape the driveway after the big storm is over.

What is with all the Global Warming Crap. I saw on the news last night that the biggest snow storm in 30 years hit Las Vegas and they even had to close the air port because it was snowed in. Maybe we can get Al Gore to come scrape the driveway.

If I got stuck in the snow, I couldn't get out of it to save my life, in my quarter power mode, grumble, grumble...

So, to all you readers of this blog, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from here in DaHo...