Tuesday; May 21
Five years ago I went to Urgent Care to get some relief for my flulike symptoms and, before the week was over, I had been replumbed. Come to find out I didn’t have the flu, I had five blockages. (I am still not sure how I could I have that many blockages – I thought the max was four; maybe I just arrived on “free bonus bypass day”.) I can joke about what I went through today, but it was kind of scary – not just for me, but probably more so for my family! As I look back on that time, I do so with a lot of appreciation. First, had it been a year later, we would have been deep in the COVID pandemic and things would have been much different. Additionally, had I not done what I did when I did it, my cardiologist said what I had is usually referred to as a “widow-maker” and that doesn’t sound too promising! May, 2019 wasn’t the best month of my life; but it sure wasn’t the worst either. As I look back at this time in my life, I am grateful for the way things ended up. For me, it rem