Ahhhh Phu Cat, I was at DaNang at that time and got hurt. 2 weeks after the hospital stay, I got sent back to Tuy Hoa. 7 stints, 2 open heart and pacemaker. Hoping to get the
defibrillator in December. Next Tues heart echo is done at Nashville VA and then the following Friday Chief Surgeon will tell me if my heart is at 35% or less, the criteria for the procedure. I won't know if its open heart until I wake up. The trick is getting the lead out of the lower portion of the heart. If they rupture the heart, then they'll crack the chest to finish the procedure. So either I wake up without tubes in my throat and chest, or I wake up wanting ICE real bad LOL. (and they won't give it to ya for couple of hours - torture - PURE TORTURE).
It really won't do much for me physically, other than giving wife peace of mind that if the heart takes a dump, I get a juice jump start and get the motor running again (maybe) LOL. Sound like a model T now (with ANY physical effort) whhhhheeeeez wheeeeezzzeee cough cough wheeeez while chest (crackcase) pounds like an SOB. But hey, it might give me 3-7 more years of fishing southern Louisiana. Really hoping to get off the no driving/not being left alone restriction. Wife just had cancer surgery earlier this month but is doing well, but its tough doing most everything she was doing for me, now I gotta do it for both of us. Yeah and its a touch cold out there too, 20 for tonight. Figured this will be our coldest winter yet. Agent Orange gave me 100% (first try, only took 4 months to process - thought I was really lucky). My cardiologist did a good job of writing it up I guess but the PET exam was the tell all (and what prompted my 13th procedure and 2nd open heart). Think that makes 27 surgeries I've had now. Chest, back, right arm and legs all scarred up (shot twice, stabbed twice in the back), what I get for not looking behind me I guess oh and plus getting run over by a Cadillac (that darn near killed me), and getting hit by cars twice after that. One by a teenager at a school crossing that didn't obey hand commands. Oh except for the butcher knife attack, I did see that one coming and threw up the right arm to block it. She was just trying to kill her husband who I was blocking her from (Dyess AFB housing area in 77). He was stupid enough to be porking his next door neighbor when her husband was gone.
what a dumbazzzz, thinking his wife wouldn't catch on. That butcher knife stuck just before the elbow into the bone and like a pool board just bounced there. Yep, that was a sleeper while they dug that out of the bone.
I sure do miss law enforcement though and the thrill of my dog getting a good bite on a prep or making the big drug bust. Yeah, pursuits gotta count in there too.
