OK. You may have noticed that I’ve been inattentive to updating this blog for the last six months. 

I have a good excuse (and a note from my Doctor).

This past August (2009) I was awakened to chest pains and a pounding headache and, well, I’m 54 so I thought that it was ambulance time.  Wrong! 

Yes, the that was the time, but when I got a rather contentious, unhelpful 9-1-1 dispacher at 4 AM I was in no mood to debate ANYTHING so I drove myself to the emergency room of a local hospital that I’m very familiar with.  How I made it there, God only knows.

Then the fun really started.  When the E.R. physician determined that this was more than he dare handle, the nurse called the paramedics, who took me to a trauma center in Sana Ana.  After some testing they finally determined the problem to be a dissected Aorta and performed emergency surgery to correct it.

Unfortunately, I also had a massive stroke while on the table which caused some paralysis.  The good news  is that the surgery was a success (and I’m posting here again).  The other news is that the paralysis part is a much slower recovery than I would have ever imagined, so I’m taking more time away from business.

One of the big things that I’ve learned is that there are a lot of caring medical professionals in this world.  Another is that I have a lot more people, friends and family in my life that care about the important things than I could have ever imagined.  Lastly, if you don’t have your affairs together, including a medical directive to be used in the event that you can’t make your own decisions, then get one.  Today, without delay.

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