Well, it appears I have indeed survived my cardiac ablation procedure (yesterday). Because I ended up as an afternoon procedure, I had to stay in the hospital overnight for observation… | |
Before I go any farther, I want to give a BIG shout-out to the wonderful doctors, nurses, aides and other staff working at John Muir Hospital in Concord, CA. Every one of them were professional and caring! I KNOW they were busy, but they all took the time to make sure I was comfortable and that everything followed the protocol / schedule without making it seem routine. I genuinely felt like a person and not just a patient. | |
I am dating myself, but I’ll say it anyway: “You guys ROCK!“ | |
Now, I start the road to recovery. The milestones are: | |
1) survive the procedure (check) | |
2) survive the first 24 hours and go home (check) | |
3) survive the first 11.5 days. According to the NIH, this is the median point for fatalities in the first 30 days after the procedure. Fatalities for the procedure are “roughly” .46% – so 1 in 200, but the majority of those are related to co-morbidity factors, which I do not / did not have. | |
4) survive 30 days post-op. Again, according to the NIH, this is the critical time frame after which fatalities from the procedure drop to near zero(0). | |
5) 90 days evaluation of post-op medications and return to almost “normal” activity. | |
After 90 days, and assuming the procedure was successful, my “odds” of living a “normal” life expectancy (compared to those on or off of AFib medications) are the same. | |
Disclaimer: As always, I would like to remind anyone reading this that I am NOT a doctor, I am not recommending this procedure to anyone, and you should ALWAYS consult with your own medical provider / primary physician if you notice any personal health issues. My “road to recovery” checklist is based on my conversations with my cardiologist and my personal research on the Internet. | |
Finally, I offer my thanks to anyone who did offer up a prayer or positive thought for me. I am and will remain extremely grateful. | |
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No Boundary | |
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2016 | A Burning Passion To Teach Freedom |
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Posts Tagged ‘Faith’
So Far, So Good
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged AFib, Cardiac Ablation, Disclaimer, Faith, Gratitude, Health, John Muir Hospital - Concord, National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH, Positive Thoughts, Prayers, Road To Recovery on April 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Don’t Blink
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Christianity, Faith, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth on January 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »
It can do truth no service to blink the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history, that a large portion of the noblest and most valuable moral teaching has been the work, not only of men who did not know, but of men who knew and rejected, the Christian faith. | |
— John Stuart Mill | |
From: “On Liberty“ | |
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And Government Shutdowns, Too | |
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2015 | The Best Medicine Is Also Contagious |
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2013 | The More Things Change… |
2012 | The Delicate Moment Of Giving |
2011 | Ready, Shoot, Aim!! |
Just Perspective
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Butterfly, Caterpillar, End Of The World, Faith, Perspective, Philosophy, Quotes on January 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. | |
— Richard Bach | |
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I Don’t Know That I Will | |
Only So Long | |
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Is Anyone ELSE Out There Listening? | |
2018 | Defining Characteristic |
2017 | Just Asking |
2016 | Still A Burden |
15 And Counting | |
2015 | All A Game |
2014 | Two Thoughts |
2013 | RIP – Dear Abby |
Half-Life Problems | |
2012 | To The Soul… |
2011 | Reverted!! |
Looking Forward To Christmas
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, John Greenleaf Whittier, My Psalm, Philosophy, Quotes, Soul, Sun, Window on December 12, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The window of my soul I throw open to the sun. | |
— John Greenleaf Whittier | |
From: “My Psalm“ | |
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I’m So Glad | |
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Bending | |
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2018 | Two Start Up Front |
2017 | I Love America Because… |
An Act Of God | |
And So It Came To Pass (Act Of God part 2) | |
2016 | As Far From |
2015 | Rocky 7 |
Just Like Politics | |
2014 | Game And Legend |
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2013 | Real Honor |
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2012 | Thoughts And Communications |
2011 | But How Does Peter Feel? |
2010 | Name That Regret |
Be Glorious
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Alive, Faith, Glory, God, Philosophy, Quotes, St. Irenaeus on December 10, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The glory of God is a human being fully alive. | |
— St. Irenaeus | |
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2016 | Judgment |
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2014 | The Wee Bit |
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2011 | Easy To Tell |
2010 | A NEW Lion In The Senate (Channeling Mr. Smith) |
Inception Redux | |
A Quick Hit Of Stats | |
Or At Least Nod In That Direction
Posted in Faith, Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Atheism, Faith, George Bernard Shaw, God, Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, Thankfulness on November 1, 2022| 2 Comments »
I’m an atheist and I thank God for it. | |
― George Bernard Shaw | |
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2011 | Live Long And Thinner |
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Seeking The Same Thing
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Conscience, Faith, God, Inner Voice, Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, Philosophy, Quotes, Truth, Voice of God on September 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth, or the Inner Voice or “the Still Small Voice” mean one and the same thing. | |
— Mahatma Gandhi | |
Live seeking God, then you will not live without God. | |
— Leo Tolstoy | |
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2013 | What Have You Done Lately? |
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“Real” Americans Believe In The Separation Of Church And State
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged American Taliban, Faith, God, Philosophy, Quotes, Rumi, Separation of Church and State, Silence, Translation on August 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Silence is the only language God speaks. Everything else is a bad translation. | |
— Rumi | |
[My message to the members of the “Christian / American Taliban”… — kmab] | |
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2011 | I Thought We Were Talking About Afghanistan |
Natural Remedy
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Anne Frank, Faith, God, Nature, Philosophy, Quotes, Remedies on July 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. | |
— Anne Frank | |
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Corporate Cults | |
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Just The Three Of Us | |
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2012 | Counting Valor |
Understanding Faith | |
2011 | I Can Hear You Now |
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Is Normal Just Routine?
Posted in Health, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Choice, COVID-19, Did I Point My Kids To The Wrong North Star?, Faith, Health, Hope, Nicole Chung, Parenting, Philosophy, Quarantines, Quotes, The New Normal, The View Essay, Time Magazine on June 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I would say that I don’t know how we got through that first shaky week of this third pandemic-impacted school year, hugging our kids and checking to make sure their masks were secure before they left each morning, except that I do know: We had no choice. We still don’t. Though we’re grateful to their teachers and glad that our kids are once again learning alongside their peers, the worry persists, an undercurrent to which we’ve been forced to adapt as we settle into routines both familiar and new. | |
Each week brings more pediatric infections, more student quarantines. Each day, I’m conscious of the fact that I’m allowing my children to assume a risk from which I, working at home, am protected, and this feels hopelessly backward. I read every update to the school COVID-19 guidelines so I know what to expect after the inevitable exposure, but I can’t tell my kids what they have long wanted to know: When will things go back to the way they remember? | |
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Over the past 18 months, a common refrain has been that this pandemic should compel all of us to recognize our interdependence, the inescapable fact that we will not address this or any of the other grave threats we’re facing without collective action. This is a lesson that I expect many of our children are also learning, though the cost and the danger to them feels too high. I know I don’t want my kids to conclude that they are or forever will be powerless, or that there is no one who will fight with and for them. There are many things I still have to hope for to get through each day, and while our children’s survival and health top the list, I also want them to retain their faith in themselves and in their ability to look forward to something better than this — to find, as they so often do, their own reasons to hope. | |
— Nicole Chung | |
From: “The View Essay: Parenting – Did I point my kids to the wrong North Star?” Appearing in: Time Magazine; 11/18 Oct 2021 |
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Also online at: https://time.com/6102019/covid-19-hope-for-kids/ | |
The online version appears as: “There’s No End in Sight for COVID-19. What Do We Tell Our Kids Now?“ | |
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2016 | Cast Out |
2015 | Small Pieces |
Happy Father’s Day! | |
2014 | Uncertain Work |
2013 | Unpatriotic And Servile |
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2011 | Particular Importance |
Three From Bette… | |
Do Good Works
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Briers, Christian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Faith, Figs, God, Good News Translation, Grapes, Matthew 7:16, Philosophy, Quotes, The Bible, Thorn Bushes on May 7, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. | |
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
You will know them by what they do. Thorn bushes do not bear grapes, and briers do not bear figs. | |
— Matthew 7:16 | |
From: “The Bible” (Good News Translation) | |
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More SoCal Sounds | |
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2018 | Easter In Liverpool |
Star Guides To Destiny | |
Growl | |
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2016 | Along The Path |
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2013 | On Purpose |
2012 | Sans Gall Bladder, Day 4 |
How Did You Spend Your Day? | |
2011 | It’s Hammerin’ Time!! |
Convenient Auxiliaries | |
Just The Same
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Beliefs, E. B. White, Faith, Love, Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes on April 8, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I have no faith, only a suitcaseful of beliefs that sustain me. Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. | |
— E. B. White | |
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I Hear It, Too | |
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2018 | Effective Violence And A Government At Risk |
2017 | Playing The Same Music |
2016 | Survival Instinct |
2015 | Tears |
2014 | Bourne Again (4) |
2013 | God’s Protection |
2012 | Happy Easter!! |
Edge, Class, Clash, And Flight | |
The Value Of Bureaucracies | |
2011 | Logic Cuts |
If That’s What You Mean
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, Bertrand Russell, Faith, Frank Sinatra, God, Inshallah, Life, Nature, No Comfort, Philosophy, Quotes, Roll The Dice on April 4, 2022| 2 Comments »
I believe in you and me. I’m like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life – in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don’t believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice. | |
–– Frank Sinatra | |
[Can one draw comfort from believing in “God” without looking directly for it (God’s comfort)? I seem to be able to. Inshallah… — kmab] | |
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2022 | If That’s What You Mean |
2021 | Awakening The Glow |
I Remember | |
2020 | Golden Eagle |
Like #45: Incompetent Donald | |
2019 | #45: Who Lost By Three Million Votes |
2018 | Torn Between Two Loves |
A Girl And A Boy | |
2017 | I Think They Are Starting To… |
2016 | Living There |
2015 | Bookin’ West |
Beyond My Reach | |
You Never Call Anymore… | |
2014 | Winning? |
2013 | Still Inventing |
2012 | Motivated |
2011 | Waiting In Line At Starbuck’s |
Prayers For Ukraine
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, Great Works, Perseverance, Philosophy, Prayers, Quotes, Samuel Johnson, Strength, Ukraine on March 11, 2022| 2 Comments »
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. | |
— Samuel Johnson | |
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2022 | Prayers For Ukraine |
2021 | Be Your Own Hero |
Another Frog King | |
2020 | Still Trying To… |
2019 | Press Freedom |
2018 | Or Loyalty To An Unqualified And Incompetent President |
2017 | A Bad Sale |
2016 | Be Happy! |
2015 | Are You Feeling Cold? |
2014 | Never Asked |
2013 | In Praise Of Change |
2012 | John Carter Of Mars |
Circular | |
2011 | How Much And When |
Salaam Alaikum, Pakistan
Posted in Environment, Faith, General Comments, tagged Environment, Faith, Floods, Mississippi, Pakistan, Salaam, Thoughts And Prayers, Weather on August 30, 2022| 1 Comment »
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