[Thinkpad] FYI

[Bruce Markowitz]

Of course I'm sitting here eating potato chips for lunch as I read this.....

Keep your damn horse away from me!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Canyonlands Computer Raypair" <canyonlands at gmail.com>
To: <James at thinkpads.com>; "ThinkPad Mailing List" <Thinkpad at stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] FYI


> Thanks for telling about this scarey event...  You don't sound as if you
are
> built like a thinkpad T-43. Who the heck would we use for our expert if
you
> kicked the bucket. I suppose this was just another adventure to Dr.
Elaine.
> Was this experience worse than having a teenager?  I have heard it is not
> nearly as bad.
>
>
> RayBay
>
>
>
>
>
> On 4/11/07, James H. E. Maugham <james.h.maugham at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thought you might find this of interest.
> >
> > Last Thursday I was happily preparing the old abode for the arrival of
> > family members for the weekend. I was busy scrubbing the large expanse
of
> > kitchen flooring with the Hoover cleaning machine, when a horse decided
to
> > sit on my chest!
> >
> > Of course, Dr. Elaine wasn't home and didn't have her cell phone with
her
> > so
> > I sat there on the horns of a dilemma. Call 911 and hope she returns
> > before
> > I'm whisked away? Or await her return and then leave for the hospital? I
> > sat
> > and suffered with the phone in my hand hoping she'd come right back from
> > her
> > "quick trip", which she eventually did.
> >
> > She loaded me in her truck and got me to our local hospital quicker than
> > the
> > ambulance could have, I have no doubt.
> >
> > Upon arrival she figuratively threw her weight around sufficiently that
I
> > was taken directly into the emergency room and had an EKG started. Based
> > on
> > that readout, an ambulance was called and I was thereupon transported
the
> > few miles down the road to Deborah Heart and Lung Center. If you're
gonna'
> > go, go First Class!
> >
> > After three angioplastys, I am now the proud owner of two stents.
> >
> > The worst part of everything was being forced to lie immobile on my back
> > for
> > two days after the initial catheterization had to be repeated.
> >
> > I was released Monday morning at 11AM and am slowly recovering at home
> > surrounded by family and friends.
> >
> > I am in good shape, pain free, but running on a slow bell.
> >
>
>
> -- 
>
> "To be is to do" --Socrates.
>
> "To do is to be" --Jean-Paul Sartre.
>
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