MY WORDS

12/10/14 1:57am
I'm lying here in Albany Med Hospital with an IV stuck in my arm, bandages where they've drawn blood from 3 different places, an inflating/deflating bed and a roommate drugged out on morphine who snores like a chainsaw.
Sometime in the early hours they're going to wake me up take me to a room where they'll knock me out long enough to electrocute me and hope that I won't die. This is because my a fib is out of control. Wonderful. Doubt that I'll get much sleep.

12/11/14
Day 3 of my hospitalization:
I've spoken to 3 contradictory cardiologists, been pumped full of heparin, which is a blood thinner, have not been treated for the gastroenteritis which brought me in to begin with.
I'm still lightheaded and have ringing in my ears. Ridiculous.
They never did shock me, but I'm leaning towards it just to get the a fib under control.

12/23/14
Been out of the hospital 10 days now. I'm feeling down. Just wiped out. I'm having trouble breathing, trouble sleeping (probably apnea) and just feel like shit in general. I want to feel normal again, I want to feel like myself. Just so sad.

2/15/15
Been almost two months since my
Heart issue. Feeling tired still but getting stronger every day. I don't feel right. I tire easily and many things seem to be a strain. I just want to feel normal again.

4/2/15
At the Go kart track with Rob and George, about to take my maiden drive in an indoor go cart track.

5/13/15
Watching "The Voice" on TV it occurred to me that there's a part of me that's always wanted be in a band. When you see young people playing & singing together, having a great time, it tugs at me & I regret never having learned to play drums or guitar or even piano.
I want to play the harp, is that weird?  I thought Harpo Marx was cool because he played beautifully. I have bongos, I should learn how to play them.

A joke:
Dear Abby,
My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning, and, when I confront him, he denies everything. What's worse, everyone knows that he cheats on me. It is so humiliating. Also, since he lost his job 14 years ago, he hasn't even looked for a new one. All he does all day is smoke cigars, cruise around and shoot the bull with his buddies, while I have to work to pay the bills. Since our daughter went away to college he doesn't even pretend to like me, and even hints that I may be a lesbian. What should I do?
Signed: Clueless
Dear Clueless:
Grow up and dump him. Good grief woman! You don't need him anymore! You're running for President of the United States.
Act like one.