OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> In article >,
> "Bob (this one)" > wrote:
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>>OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
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>>>"Bob (this one)" > wrote:
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>>>>Wanna see the zipper in my chest?
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>>>Please tell me that's not true....... :-(
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>>MI in '89. Blew up balloons in arteries. That lasted a decade, rather
>>than the 5 they said, and then a triple.
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>>They changed the oil and checked the other fluids while in there.
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>>I like the zipper better than the alternative.
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>>Pastorio
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> That's a point... :-)
> I've seen those surgeries tho', they are aweful!
> You have my sincere empathy.
>
> You should be good to go for another 20 years at least,
> and now you know how to keep your cholesterol under control?

I only had a single bypass 20 years ago in 09/07. Just had a complete
hear checkup in December and they said that bypass was still clean and
the bypassed artery had since bypessed the plug. I'm with Pastorio, it's
a whole lot better than the alternative. Same with the two carotid
cleanouts, one last December, one three years ago. I can remember more
stuff than I want to nowadays. Thank goodness for modern medicine or Bob
nor I would be amongst you today.

If you ever have to have one ask the surgeon how many he does a year, if
it's thousands go with him, if it's two, go get another thoracic surgeon.

George