another spring day
Jan. 12th, 2006 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabLovely day for a ride again, nearly 60 degrees. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fadethecat, it actually hit 60 in Pittsburgh today - warmer than here. Ridiculous, ain't it? Nonetheless, I am more than halfway finished with your afghan. However, the sewing together is the slow part, much less fun than making the granny squares.
While we were at Panera, I noticed a little kid admiring my bike as he and his mom were coming in; on their way out I told the mom it was OK to let the kid touch the bike, and he was in absolute transports of joy. I'm a bad influence.
Symphony tix for tonight - Marin Alsop's conducting.
Sock-knitting session tomorrow night.
Youngest sister's newest baby's christening, up in PA, Sunday afternoon. If the weather keeps up like this, I wonder if we could ride up there instead of driving? Might be risky, if it cools off and precipitation condenses to rain once it gets dark, as we'd be coming home. I will have to think about the risk/benefit ratio there.
Saw the cardiologist yesterday, to get the results of the MUGA scan. It shows an EF of 21% - far more precise than the echocardiogram. This is low enough that, even though I'm way less symptomatic compared with most people with this low an EF, he'd nonetheless like to try some fixes. So now I have an appointment for Feb 1 with an electrophysiologist to see if we can figure out a way to finally implant that third lead so I'll have the benefit of bi-ventricular pacing from my ICD/pacemaker. This may involve a limited thoracotomy - not needing to break open the sternum the way they do for open-heart surgery, but possibly cracking a couple of ribs on the left side to get a reach in there to the back side of the heart. But we'll see. More news after the Feb. 1 appointment.
Oh yeah, magazines so far this week: New Yorker, New Scientist. Didn't get by the PO today, so tomorrow should see a whole bunch more mags and therefore more reading.
fadethecat, it actually hit 60 in Pittsburgh today - warmer than here. Ridiculous, ain't it? Nonetheless, I am more than halfway finished with your afghan. However, the sewing together is the slow part, much less fun than making the granny squares.While we were at Panera, I noticed a little kid admiring my bike as he and his mom were coming in; on their way out I told the mom it was OK to let the kid touch the bike, and he was in absolute transports of joy. I'm a bad influence.
Symphony tix for tonight - Marin Alsop's conducting.
Sock-knitting session tomorrow night.
Youngest sister's newest baby's christening, up in PA, Sunday afternoon. If the weather keeps up like this, I wonder if we could ride up there instead of driving? Might be risky, if it cools off and precipitation condenses to rain once it gets dark, as we'd be coming home. I will have to think about the risk/benefit ratio there.
Saw the cardiologist yesterday, to get the results of the MUGA scan. It shows an EF of 21% - far more precise than the echocardiogram. This is low enough that, even though I'm way less symptomatic compared with most people with this low an EF, he'd nonetheless like to try some fixes. So now I have an appointment for Feb 1 with an electrophysiologist to see if we can figure out a way to finally implant that third lead so I'll have the benefit of bi-ventricular pacing from my ICD/pacemaker. This may involve a limited thoracotomy - not needing to break open the sternum the way they do for open-heart surgery, but possibly cracking a couple of ribs on the left side to get a reach in there to the back side of the heart. But we'll see. More news after the Feb. 1 appointment.
Oh yeah, magazines so far this week: New Yorker, New Scientist. Didn't get by the PO today, so tomorrow should see a whole bunch more mags and therefore more reading.
