{"id":457,"date":"2011-08-11T20:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T00:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-08-11T20:34:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T00:34:46","slug":"the-light-is-brief-dont-waste-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"The light is brief, don’t waste it…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…the taste is sweet, so taste it, so I said, I understand… you see, I’m dancing as fast as I can.*<\/p>\n

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Leaving the house this morning, I spied a rose in bloom…laying back in the rosemary. A Rose in the Rosemary…and while I rarely will alter a photo, I thought by adding bokeh (throwing the outer part of the photo out of focus) and blending to white just seemed to capture the mood that I was envisioning in my head.<\/p>\n

An update on dad, from a phone call with him after he talked to his cardiologist on the phone. I’ll admit I don’t understand this. The “widow maker” is whistle clean. (For those who don’t know what a “widow maker” is — this is from the Wikipedia: A widow maker is a nickname used to describe a highly stenotic left main coronary artery or proximal left anterior descending coronary artery of the heart.<\/em><\/p>\n

This term is used because if the artery gets abruptly and completely occluded it will cause a massive heart attack that will likely lead to a sudden death. The blockage that kills is made up of platelets streaming to the site of a ruptured cholesterol plaque. Even a small amount of plaque in this area can (for a variety of poorly understood reasons) rupture and cause death; bypassing chronic blockages or trying to open them up with angioplasty does not prevent heart attack but it can restore blood flow in case of a sudden blockage or heart attack. An example of the devastating results of a complete occlusion of the LAD (Left Anterior Descending) artery was the sudden death of former NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert.<\/em><\/p>\n

From the minute a widow maker hits, there is a five-minute window of time to get to a hospital or receive emergency care.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Another bypass is perfectly clean. The triple bypass done with the radial artery is supposedly 100% clogged, yet the heart is perfectly healthy and receiving a completely adequate blood supply (through a “retroflow”) with no ill effects, and no effect on his health. He and mom will go see the cardiologist on Sep 2 and believe me, SHE will get answers.<\/p>\n

I don’t understand it, so there must be something he might have misunderstood or wasn’t explained properly.<\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/idafaic.mp3]\n

Silver Blue, who is thankful for every day I have my parents, and who wishes I could have been a better son in the times that I wasn’t<\/p>\n

(* “I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can” – Juice Newton)<\/p>\n

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