NP> Once you've had one heart attack the brain can readily identify
 NP> the signals and tends to go into panic when it senses the
 NP> "same" symptoms.

 >> Exactly! At one level I knew it was just the 'flu, but on the
 >> gut level it was BACK! A sore throat became a "radiating" pain
 >> up the neck.

 NP> After 3 years of it happening everyday you tend to get used to
 NP> it :-(

  Yair... after 6 weeks I'm sick of symptoms so I ignore them.

 > This bloody heart attack has scared the shit out of my
 > subconscious! I can't trust "it" any more. ROFL!!!

 NP> It's a real shit. I KNOW !!!

  Actually, I've taken over the monitoring and I've discovered that
boredom is more powerful than fear. I really don't give a shit, now.

  It's funny how you don't learn. When I was having *real* angina
symptoms a few weeks ago, with a 95%-blocked heart artery and my life
hanging on a thread, I came on the brilliant idea of testing it by
pushing myself beyond the symptoms to see what happened. I got very
tired and had to sit down. "Funny," I thought. "I keep
falling over."

  So now I'm doing the same thing! Whatta fuckwit. If I get an odd
sensation in my chest while I'm out walking, I just power on up the
next hill and see what happens. I do get tired, but it's just my 
poor old legs. ROFL!

 NP> of that time I had 2 drips on one wheelie-stand and the third
 NP> drip on another. Talk about faithful companions following one
 NP> about. :-)

 > ROFL!! There was a bushie in the bed opposite who had a month's
 > experience of that, and was rather good at leading them around
 > like pet dogs.

 NP> Try having a shower when you are still hooked up to them ;-(

  Been there, done that! The faithful dispenser pump is outside the
shower curtain and you can only turn one way with the plastic hose,
and when you start swearing the nurse opens the door and tells you to
calm down or she'll turn off the water.

 > Heperin and nitroglycerine are amazing stuff.

 NP> It's great that they have advanced from the old days of doctors
 NP> using... SHIT!! (The name won't come) 

  They used SHIT??? Surely not.

 NP> Those things that get on you in the bush and suck the blood out
 NP> and then drop off....

  They suck blood and drop off? Lawyers? Aborigines? High Court Judges? 
Politicians? Bureaucrats? The name is on the tip of my tongue...

  It's leeches, you silly old bugger.

 NP> The nurses weren't that great but when I said the "menu" I
 NP> meant it. It was printed attractively, and had just as many
 NP> choices and courses as a restaurant menu but without the prices
 NP> !!! They won me :-)

  In public hospitals they give you a thing like a motel breakfast
menu, and you tick off what you want, and then they make sure you 
don't get it.

Regards,
Bob



  
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