Amy’s Neighborhood

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Members of the Chinese Olympic team
Women to watch for

Amazing insightful interview
with the architect of the Bird's Nest.

An English speaker picks a Chinese name,
and then interviews

Chinese speakers who have English names

"It's the end of the world
as we know it"

"...and that would make today
different
from any other day

( ^ _^ )
how, exactly?"

I'm on heart medications
one of them controls my pulse rate
and I ran out.

Mindlessly
I didn't think to refill it
for a month.

so then I refill it

Now there are things
called brilliant thoughts.
The following
isn't one of them:

"Hey, I'm behind on my meds
I ought to double up
in order to catch up."

A few days of doubling up.

Then Amy and I
go for a walk.

I
can
only walk
 a few yards
at
a

time

before

I

have
to


stop


to
catch


my



breath.



Amy says this isn't right
she says, we're going
to the emergency room

We get in,
I get put on oxygen
get poked blood work
have ekg stickers stuck on me

after a while

the Doctor looks me in the eye
says matter of factly
that my condition
requires the kind of attention
that another area hospital can provide
They have physicians
skilled in this sort of thing

He says
 they are really good.
He says
If it was his brother
in my circumstances
he would send him there to them.
He says,
If it was himself
in my circumstances
he would go them.
He says
I am going to them.
He says
I will be taken there
by helicopter
and be there in 10 minutes.

Soon I'm on a helicopter liftiing off.

10 minutes later I'm at the other hospital

a few hours later
I'm looking at thing hanging from
(whatever they call
those rolling posts
that they normally
hang IV bags from)
it's device about the size
of a universal remot control
It's got a wire hanging from it.
The wire goes into my leg
into a big bore catheter
up into a vein
and ends up in my heart.

It's pacemaker.
It prevents my heart
from beating slower than 50 beats per minute.

I watch the monitors.
It's stays at 50 bpm most of the first night.

another day, a night, and a day passes.

A doctor comes in
followed by a posse
of resident
he says
So, I understand you took extra helpings
of your heart medication.
Why did you do that?
Did it taste like candy?
Everybody, myself included, laughs.
You had to be there.

His verdict is that I'm stabilized
And one of the residents stays behind
to puuuulllllllllllllll the wire
out of my vein.

And then later I'm released.

Respect your meds.
Peace out.

making partial cuts
into innocent hot dogs
then frying them up

below:
hotdog girl
hotdog hippo
hotdog squid