I also had a gran time visiting you and the kids. Perhaps I can make my first trek to Europe in the not to distant future and see you again!!!

Geoff

The kids werent so taken by your “oy vey” groaning as much as your imitation of Tevia from Fiddler on the Roof. They have forgotten the grunting sounds of effort but they still burst out laughing at your “If I were a rich man” outburst on the bus.

So…the disappearing penis…yes, someone has to address this medically and that will be me. I must say that I have never counciled an MI patient about the potential for disappearing penis. I have talked out the real possible dangers of re-engaging in vigourous (is there really any other kind?) sexual activity too early after an MI – but the physical sequelae has always been sort of “under the covers” as just part and parcel of this part of recovery. In other words, it is almost a given in many cases…..and sort of too little, too late….

I can say that I have had [and counciled] many patients with diabetes and/or severe atherosclerotic disease which effects the blood supply to their hearts, eyes, kidneys,etc. – including thier limbs (and including the third leg [a.k.a. penis]) – resulting in various dysfunctions. This means that if you have athersclerotic disease serious enough to have a heart attack, you can certainly have the equivalent issues with the blood supply to your penis (but eveyone is different – including the ways and degrees to which they assign importance to this organ). I’ve always thought that the American Medical/Heart and Diabetse Assocaitions were missing a great marketing opportunity by not using this important fact to afffect real behavioural change in the aging male patient population.
And then there is the new complicating facotr of the Super-pill – VIAGRA- to really mess up the picture.
But I digress.

I liked the blog, baby..and it was great to see you in Washington DC.

Don’t worry, it did eventually come back!

That would be, however, a VERY interesting Sherlock Holmes story, now wouldn’t it?

I’m not sure I’d like being awake for that, I had trouble enough at the angiogram (i.e. ultra sound – what trimester am I in?) hearing and seeing my arrhythmia. Yikes. Of course, I am, as I understand all men are, a big baby.

I do see that I will come out of this much healthier!

And, yes, I’m grateful for the adventure!

Geoff

I adore Disappearing Penis Stories! I can’t get enough of them!

Sincerely, I found my little heart episode (was lucky and got away with angioplasty with a stent) fascinating.

During the angio, I was under a light sedative and abruptly woke up. The Doctor was in dialog with a Ms. Baker, telling her to go so many degrees latitude … then so many degrees longitude. When the tech saw that I was awake they all started laughing. I asked em … why are you laughing?

It appears the tech running the computer that directed the Taiwanese Shadow Puppet Vein Cleaning Machine was named Diane, and every time he called her by name I would wake up or move!

So … I got to watch my team cleaning the veins in my heart while it pumped away! It was fascinating and amazing and I fell head over heals in love with my heart!

So I applaud both of us … and those of you out there with similar fascinating lost and found stories!

Life goes on, and if we’re lucky we find fascinating adventures along the way!

Keep us posted!

Diane

p.s. I can’t stop thinking about “The Case of the Disappearing Penis!”

G

Thanks for the props! I’d love to write for it and with you guys, but I’m so over committed now that, unless there is pay involved, I can’t do anything else. Not a bad place to be, I guess.

Keep around here, and I’ll keep an eye on you.

Geoff

Jim – I see your “hopefully” and raise you two “it better, by God, start back up again”s.

See you on Pat’s coaching forum. Jim