HEART SURGERY
Pain and Jazz heart hands
Unless you have a valid reason not to, take all of the pain medication they offer you on the…
January 20, 2015-
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HEART SURGERYMy kingdom for a shower
I had a superb night last night with good patches of sleep and well timed pain management. So feeling…
January 19, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Pacemaker wires are assholes.
My external pacemaker wires were just removed. The benign assumption that these wires are casually attached to the skin…
January 18, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
inching forward like an inch worm.
One day further from the surgery and one day closer to recovery. I think much of the worst of…
January 18, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Opiate filled hugs
Well that worked out peaches and by peaches i mean thank goodness it is all over and each day…
January 17, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Update: Friday 9am
From Trudy… Tracy had some tachycardia late last night so in the wee hours of this morning they called…
January 16, 2015 -
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Update: Thursday 9:45pm
Tracy is awake! Word from Heather at TGH is, “Awake with her breathing tube out, cracking jokes. Her first…
January 15, 2015 -
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Update: Thursday 8pm
Claudine is in the ICU with Tracy now. She’s still sleeping. The next big step is waking her up.…
January 15, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Update: Thursday 7:45pm
Just to let everyone know that Tracy is out of surgery and everything went perfectly. This is from Heather…
January 15, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
POC-U
I suspect Tracy may have taken these as she was being wheeled into surgery. These are the latest snaps…
January 15, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Thursday morning, 11:30am update
Tracy’s surgery is now going to be at 1:30 today. She is in the middle of doing pre-check in shenanigans,…
January 15, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Pause yo prayers!
We have been pushed back to 2pm today so PAUSE THEM PRAYERS. I want to make sure the tsunami…
January 15, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYTime to Pig
Having only human heart valves always seemed like something I could improve upon. Today I will finally remedy that…
January 15, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYYour love is like an ’emotional’ rollercoaster, baby I wanna ride….
Today was donkey shit. The hospital called to say that they had rescheduled my appointment, I joked that I…
January 14, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Somewhat helpful facts
The spidery ants of insomnia are creeping back into my sleep. Everything is so much less funny at 3:26am.…
January 14, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Hello/Goodbye
One year ago today my family said goodbye to a man so deeply cemented in our love that this…
January 13, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYThe Creepy Things
Two things bother and creep me out the most out of everything about the surgery. #1 THE REACHING IN…
January 11, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYQuestions & Fluffy Slippers
When I am overwhelmed I like to make lists. This list might have gotten a little out of control……
January 10, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYENDURE 420
I was swabbed, prodded, injected, blood sampled, swiped, x-rayed, scanned, monitored, instructed, given a psychiatrists evaluation (nailed it) and…
January 8, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYCaptain Incision to the Rescue
This is my ‘Incision Shield.’ It is a flexible, X-shaped piece of plastic that I bought online to use…
January 7, 2015 -
HEART SURGERY
Health. Love. Faith. Science
I am letting go of the scariness lurking in the unknowns and trying to leave the future and the…
January 6, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYDeath & the Roller Coaster line up
To be clear, I am in no way death obsessed. Quite the contrary. So I hereby place full blame…
January 4, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYSwabs & Sundry
I love the organisation of the health care system here in Canada. You can say what you will about…
January 3, 2015 -
HEART SURGERYlizard free new year
We travelled back home to Canada this morning after an amazing time in Trinidad. I am excited to sleep…
December 31, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYJanuary 15, 2015: Heart Surgery Jam
In exactly one month from today I am going to do something that I have – in some capacity…
December 15, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYAlien Squid & Adorable Surgeons
The Internet spoke no lies in previewing the scale of adorableness that is Dr. Hickey. He is calm, kind…
September 22, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYBintu for President!
For the last three years I have volunteered with the Big Brothers & Big Sisters Program here in the…
September 20, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYHeart Shaped Box(buckle)
I had the alarmingly delightful happenstance of finding recently – in a local arts market – this entirely excellent…
September 13, 2014 -
HEART SURGERY
Dr. Hickey
I meet my surgeon, Dr. Hickey, on September 22, to book the actual surgery date and go over all…
September 6, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYWilbur & Charlotte
When I was a child we had a copy of the original animated Charlotte’s Web movie. It was basically…
September 4, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYYou had me at Porcine
I will concede to the fact that I am somewhat morbidly fascinated with the procedure of having to have…
September 2, 2014 -
HEART SURGERY
Heart valves and ranch dip
Medtronic is one of the main companies that creates and designs BIO and mechanical replacement heart valves. I am…
August 27, 2014 -
HEART SURGERY
a full 0%
2:03am I am saturated between feeling so blessed to have the opportunity to have this treatment and the sheer terror of the looming…
May 23, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYbrain tricks
I feel like something inside of me is betraying my functionality, an important cog in the wheel off centered and off-track.…
May 11, 2014 -
HEART SURGERY
no boobs jobs
I met with my cardiologist team and they have reviewed my latest set of test results. My recent MRI…
March 25, 2014 -
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MRI stripshow
“Please, take off all of your clothes but leave your shoes and socks on.” is one of the least…
February 12, 2014 -
HEART SURGERYSuck on that
I have yet again successfully wooed my cardiologist team with apparently excellent test results and some good old-fashioned…
November 24, 2011 -
HEART SURGERYJune 16th 1983
I was born with Tetralogy of Fallot; which is really just a fancy way of saying I had a…
May 16, 2010
