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…and the Pentagon is Lucy. As you may or may not know, I am a HUGE The West Wing fan.
I have been watching two seasons of The West Wing due to a gift from my friend Aaron T. Harvey for Christmas. [Thanks Aaron!]
In this episode called “Contraption” in the series’ second season, Leo tries to convince President Bartlet that the missile defense system is worth the expense…
Oh Good Grief!
Filed under: The West WingDon’t play in front of my apartment slamming your board endlessly on the pavement at 9am! Especially on a Sunday morning.
The apartment complex forbids skateboarding on the premises, but this kid always does it. He slams his board daily. Even when the sun is down and I’m just getting home at 7pm, he is there sometimes.
In fact, he is within feet of the clubhouse, yet the management never does anything here at the Sycamore Lane Apartments in Mission Viejo – part of Bayharbor Management Services.
I don’t mind that you board, just do it someplace else…
Filed under: Personal Log
Well it has been several days since I got out of the hospital and still feeling tired and exhausted. Christmas is right around the corner and I have so much to do. Today, I had some pains in my chest area, but also in my shoulders and neck. I was doing the dishes and about 5 minutes into it I felt like I wanted to pass out and my arms really hurt. Then later I was climbing the stairs to my apartment and I felt like I was going to fall over.
The last two times I had stents put in, I did NOT feel this way. In fact, it was quite the opposite. I was bouncing of the walls and couldn’t stay still. Perhaps my body is telling me something. I’m off work until January 5th and my mind knows it and it probably is telling me to slow down.
I’m really sad that I won’t get to see my co-workers at Ignite before the holidays. They have been a great extension to my family and I have a good support system there. Special shout-out to my IT co-workers for being there.
Tim came over for dinner tonight and brought me some stuff from work. We had dinner and caught up. He tld me that he and KC put togther Matt’s office for me. Thank you KC and Tim. We then went to Target to see if we could find a copy of the NHL KC 2009 for the Wii. They didn’t have a copy, but they had one at a Target near his house. I got home and just crawled onto one end of my couch and started to fall asleep. My sister called and wanted to drop off my dad’s credit card so I can buy the stuff for dinner tomorrow night. I got some energy and headed out. The market was empty and I like it like that.
So tomorrow (Christmas Eve) we are having dinner at my parent’s place in Irvine. The menu is simple and won’t be much of a hassle to put togther. Dinner is at 8pm so I’ll start dinner around 5:45.
The menu? A very simple one:
Filed under: Food, Health Status, Personal LogStanding Rib Roast with a Horseradish, Rosemary, Garlic and Olive Oil Crust.
A Red Wine Mushroom Sauce
Scott’s smashed potatoes w/horseradish (a fave with my nephews and nieces)
Roasted Parsnips and Carrots
Dinner Rolls
Free-form Apple Galette with Cinnamon Ice Cream
Hi there, Scott’s heart here.
In 2002 I had a “hiccup” and I gave Scott a mild heart incident. Everytime he would get up to walk, go up the stairs, carry something, I would make him tired. For three weeks he ignored it and he thought it was his asthma. When I made things harder for him, he went to his doctor and he was told to go to the ER immediately. Turns out one of my arteries was partially blocked and the docs put in a stent to clear it. Once the stent went in I was pumping again at full steam and Scott had lots of energy.
Several years have gone by and in February 2007 I had more blockage and made things hard for Scott. I didn’t make things slow and gradual, I decided to flutter a bit when he was out walking and gave him a very mild myocardial infarction. Luckily it wasn’t bad and I suffered no damage. I wanted to give Scott a second chance. You see, since 2002 he didn’t make much of a chnage in his diet or exercise. So I got another stent and Scott was up to 100% again.
Since then, Scott made a good effort at the time to change his habits. He changed his diet, sought a personal trainer and tried to lose some of his weight. He was committed to it for about 3 months. He lost the weight but gained it all back and some. He started drinking soda again, though not at much as before, and he started eating fatty foods again. He dropped the trainer and stopped working out.
Almost two years have gone by and I’ll be damned if he is still not treating me and his body right. So I decided to give him a sign. Any activity would cause him to be tired. For the last few months, he has been tired and lethargic. His energy levels are low, he’s even had big insomnia problems.
Last week things got hard for Scott and on Wednesday he decided it wasn’t just fatigue and after testing the theory by doing some physical activity. By the time he exerted himself, he realized that he felt this feeling before.
He just about lost it on Wednesday and went into his boss’ office basically in tears in fear that it was back. He contacted his primary doctor and his cardiologist and was told to head to the ER. He went in they hooked the EKG and contacted his cardiologist. Dr. LaMont is on staff at Saddleback Memorial. They gave him some nitro and an aspirin and it was determined after waiting for 4 hours in the ER that he should be admitted and schedule an angioplasty to explore my arteries. They thought about doing a stress test, but felt that the angioplasty was the best course of action. They scheduled the surgery for the next morning at 7:30am.
That evening, alone in his hospital room, he cried. He knew he did this. He knew that he didn’t do anything this past year to make me feel better. I know in his soul he wanted to do the right thing, but in reality he didn’t make the good decisions as often as he should have. His friend Tim visited him in the hospital and consoled him. His friend Tim said that it will take small steps to get to a better place. Scott needs to listen to his friend Tim. Tim said he’d help him through it. From what I could sense from Scott’s soul, he was relived and happy that Tim was there for him.
That night was full of lots of tossing and turning. Nurses came in every 2 hours to take reading on my pressure and took my blood every 4 hours. I guess they were looking for the enzyme I should be releasing if I had some damage. But I knew they wouldn’t find any. At around 0500 they started prepping Scott for surgery. They came up for him at 0700 and brought him to the cath lab.
They started the exploration of my arteries and they found one of my arteries clogged about 80%. Dr. LaMont said they had to put in some stents to clear the artery. They actually put in three stents. The surgical team joked that the stents would set off metal detectors in the airport. Scott was not amused.
So I now have a total of 5 stents in me. I can’t believe it. Scott owes me big time that I didn’t break out into a full attack. Most people get 1 chance, maybe 2, but 3 times must mean he is doing something right to deserve to stay around.
In fact, I heard him talking to his friend Tim about how he feels guilty about his lack of attention to me over the last two years. He knows he fucked up and he knows that he will not get another chance. I might not give him another chance. Scott is a good person and I want to root for him. But don’t fuck with me, I’ll do something bad.
Maybe he will actually wake up this time.
Filed under: Health Status, Personal Log
Apple announced this afternoon that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote address at the upcoming 2009 Macworld Expo in January. They also announced that this will be their last year exhibiting at the Expo.
Apple says that their worldwide presence allows them to market to the consumers in a different way and they are reaching their market-base. Putting the resources into trade shows doesn’t make sense for them anymore. Earlier this year, they pulled out of NAB and other trade shows in Europe.
I wasn’t able to get to Macworld this year due to budgetary constraints.
In my opinion, regardless if they are reaching their consumers in other methods, this is THE show where fans and aficianados, geeks and meeks (mac freaks), can be in one place and enjoy the comraderie. I have been attending Macworld Expo since the last 80s (yes I am that old) and I have appreciated each and every show.
Filed under: Advertising, Apple, Inc., Mac Stuff
I got a call from my sister while I was in a meeting with the CEO of my company. She left a voicemail, but I didn’t listen to it until about an hour later.
My mom is in the hospital – no other details. I rushed over to the new Kaiser Hospital in Irvine and tried to find where she was. She was admitted and I was sent upstairs. When I got there I talked to the nurse and she said I’d have to get in a gown and put on a respirator (similar to a surgical mask).
I was like, what!?!? She siad I had to put n the gear as she was in an isolation room. Again, I said, what?!?! She’s being isolated due to a threat that she might have TB (tuberculosis).
WHAT!?!?!
Turns out that two days ago my mom started to spit up blood. My dad took here in today as it started to get to be more blood than mucous with some blood in it. Gross, I know.
They are keeping her in the hospital to determine that she doesn’t TB before they move on to the next set of tests. An xray of her chest will be taken and that will be the first indicators. They also administered a PPD skin test.
She will be in the hospital for a minimum of three days as they try to get to the bottom of things.
I had to wear a mask since I haven’t been exposed to my mom since she started having symptoms. If she does have it, my sisters and their families will have to be tested as well as my dad. I haven’t been home in over a week, so I most likely don’t have it. Hoever, if it turns out she has it, I’m getting tested, regardless.
I went home feeling helpless, but my mom said to go home and get some rest. She knows I have been sleeping problems lately. I’ll check up on mom, tomorrow afternoon.
Filed under: Family, Health Status, Personal Log
