Last evening, when I normally would have been writing something for here, I responded to a batch of e-mails and just as I finished with those the phone carried a call from a friend.<\/p>\n
She and I share the unwelcome situation of have spouses that suffered major heart related illness in 2009.\u00a0 This also means that her husband and Nancy have many experiences to compare.\u00a0 He had a major heart attack last spring that culminated in a heart transplant late in the fall.\u00a0 They live in\u00a0 a sparsely populated mountainous area remote from a major medical center and so he has been hundreds of miles away \u2013 and still is.<\/p>\n
We each knew of the unfolding medical issues of the other but keeping in communication was nearly impossible.\u00a0 Thus, we had a long phone call and when it was over I had some chores to do and never thought again of making my \u201coccasional\u201d update about Nancy.<\/p>\n
She is still doing well \u2013 I\u2019ve talked to her twice this Thursday morning \u2013 and I will remember to get something on here tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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