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| Olde Tyme Religion |
| My Weeklong Absence |
| 2018-04-13 |
| I haven't been around for the past week due to my first heart attack. I went to my barber and immediately went into cardiac arrest. Fortunately there's a fire station a few hundred feet away and the EMT's were there in a few minutes. According to them I was dead for three minutes. Spent a week at the South Shore Hospital (Mass. has great hospitals) where the staff and my roomie in the hospital room could not have been nicer and very professional. The only bad thing - I now have a defibrillator in my upper chest. I'll take that over being dead at 53. Lessons to be learned - it's all about diet and not smoking cigs all the time, which was interesting because I stopped four months ago, and I've so far resisted the usual tax season pack of smokes a day. Fortunately, news of my death was greatly exaggerated! |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #20 Stay well Raj. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2018-04-13 23:39 |
| #19 Glad you're Back. |
| Posted by: Sgt.D.T. 2018-04-13 23:04 |
| #18 Now please stay on this side of the turf okay? Us Mass Ranters can't afford to decrease our numbers. Ditch the cigs, eat right and exercise as your MD orders. Get well soonest. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-04-13 19:42 |
| #17 Thank you everyone, for your kind comments. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-04-13 19:09 |
| #16 Raj, just saw this. Best wishes and get well. |
| Posted by: Matt 2018-04-13 18:51 |
| #15 Glad Elysium will have to wait for its next soul. Get well soon. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2018-04-13 18:27 |
| #14 I went to my barber and immediately went into cardiac arrest Yeah, they're expensive these days. |
| Posted by: Classer 2018-04-13 18:02 |
| #13 Raj, we are beings of habits. If you drop the smokes replace them with a nearby 25 pound bar bell sometimes and a walk around the block the next time. Just dropping something doesn't work. You have to replace a bad habit with a good habit, a bad item on the menu with a good item on the menu. Theres a thousand better options to replace a bad habit with. The list goes on. Its up to your imagination. Long live the new man! |
| Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-13 16:40 |
| #12 Way to hang in there, Raj. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-04-13 15:29 |
| #11 Little prayer of thanks for all those involved in getting you OK. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-04-13 14:49 |
| #10 And you post this on April 13, a Friday? Death wish much? Very, very glad you aren’t still dead, Raj. Now try not to do it again please. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-04-13 14:27 |
| #9 A speedy recovery, Raj. Try not to do it again. Three more minutes like that and you'd qualify to vote Democrat. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-04-13 13:52 |
| #8 Keep on living, bro. Good to have you back. By the way, don't let the Dims find out you were dead or they'll be sending write in votes in your name![sarc off] |
| Posted by: Roth LaDoad 2018-04-13 11:09 |
| #7 Raj, glad you are O.K. and not dead. Your insightful and pithy comments are enlightening. Tax season puts many people in their grave. Keep on keepin on. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-04-13 10:34 |
| #6 According to them I was dead for three minutes And voted Democrat twice in those three minutes? Welcome back, Raj |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-04-13 10:21 |
| #5 Glad to hear you are not pining for the fijords, Raj. I lived in Woburn for 2 years and found the people to be very nice. Loved my stay working for Badger Engineers. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2018-04-13 09:44 |
| #4 Welcome back from the dark side Raj! I now have a defibrillator in my upper chest. You're gonna be a hit at parties! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-04-13 09:33 |
| #3 Very, very glad you aren’t dead, Raj. Especially around April 15th! Please make not dying a habit. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-13 09:19 |
| #2 Thanks for the update. Been wondering if you were on holiday. ....could not have been nicer Strange isn't it, as we approach the long journey, people decide to... 'be nice?' Tell me they're not concerned about what we'll say of them when we reach the other side, just tell me. Prayers for your recovery Rajie. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-04-13 09:00 |
| #1 Glad you're on the mend, Raj. Wouldn't be the same around here without you. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-04-13 08:59 |