ChloeRose63

Just woke up. Couldn't wait to log onto SR. What a great quote by Emerson to meditate upon as I lay here quitely taking in the new sober day. A new day has begun. Thanks, Hevyn. Have a wonderful morning, too and to all, make it a great day. CR

wpainterw

Just a quick P.S. I now have an appointment with the "Noninvasive Aortic Valve Replacement" specialist in Boston on Feb. 25th and hope I qualify for the relatively new TAVR procedure. Wish me luck. Thanks.

W.

ScottFromWI

Best of luck. My father in law had a valve and a bypass done last winter with the "davinci robot" and the entire procedure was done via 3 small incisions on either site of his rib cage. He was out of the hospital literally 3 days after the surgery and back on his feet and doing pretty much everything he did before in about 3 weeks. The technology they have now is pretty amazing.

wpainterw

Fantastic! How old is your father in law? Was it hard for him to get "qualified" for the procedure? I want to avoid open heart surgery if at all possible , since I'm 87 and have anemia.

W.

wpainterw

P.S. I'm seeing the surgeons this morning about my heart valve operation. Since my last posting I've had some anxiety about this. I want to pass on to you a book which has been a great help to me. Daniel Klein's "Travels With Epicurus", short, easy to read, very wise in many respects. About living with "old" or even "old, old" age. The point he makes is not to worry about the future, nor about the past. Live in the "Now" and enjoy what you have. He relies greatly on the Greeks, particularly Epicurus (not the Hedonist which he sometimes is thought to be), Plato and Aristotle. This is a way to get some serenity, to make the best of the years that remain, the "Remains of the Day". A very spiritual man, although not really an advocate of organized religion. He has a dog. I have a dog. We have much to learn from the dogs. Mine sits in the sun and thinks about his toys and where he might get the next biscuit, what's going on out in his yard. He knows when I feel sad and comes in and puts his nose in my hand.

W.

KateL

Pah,you are as young as you feel Good luck xxxxxx

Hevyn

W - I hope you'll let us know how it went with the doctor. We're all thinking of you.

FreeFall

Good luck with all the meetings and decisions! We're thinking of you and sending prayers for you!

Dee74

best wishes wpainter
let us know what happens

D

GotGrace

Thinking of you, wpainter. My dad is 85 and I love him dearly. I hope your decisions are easy ones and that we will here much more from you!

ReadyAndAble

Best of luck, w. You certainly deserve it, for all you've done for others here.

Carlotta

Keeping you in my prayers and just wanted to let you know that I love your posts and I think that

Goldcoastgirl

I don't know you wpainterw but can tell from the posts that you are much loved and have contributed much to your friends at SR. Sending you all my positive thoughts from across the world!

Goldcoastgirl

Hi Chloe Rose, what a pretty name! Glad to see you have found us and you will find a lot of support here like I have. Keep us posted on your progress x

Fallow

Beautiful post

Best wishes to you

Received

I haven't been checking in here very much so just now saw this.

Wishing you all the best. Thanks for being here for me when I first joined. Thanks for being here for all of us.

malcolmsloan

Sending you good thoughts and prayers, Wpainter. Great quote from Keats by the way.

afloatsober

William.
Best wishes from 'across the pond'.
Gary

MythOfSisyphus

I'm hoping the procedure went well, wpainterw! Best wishes, hope to hear from you soon with good news!

wpainterw

Thanks so much everyone. I really appreciate it. A long day at the hospital. The two surgeons were most impressive and also kindly and very helpful. They indicated that the noninvasive valve implant was certainly a possibility but that they would have to do additional tests and would let me know more next week. I'll consent to the procedure which gives the best results with the lesser risks regardless of the length of the recovery period. I want to prolong my life for the sake of my dog and to continue to help others in recovery from addictions if I can. I suspect that since I'm quite an old, even an "old old" geezer younger folks may sometimes think I'm too preachy. I understand that completely and will work on not being that way. But then again, note the priority in my list of persons I want to live to help. I'm placing my dog first. I'm not going to change that, even though he sometimes preaches to me, at least with his beady eyes!

W.