phaedrus posted:This is just so gratifying. I am having a blast watching this game in a hotel in Eau Claire.
Can't do it now, but maybe I'll share personal context later - pretty intense.
I'll finish what I started.
Extremely physically unwell these days due to heart. Severe stenosis of aortic valve requiring replacement. Mitral valve has some portion detached and there is bleeding into my lungs (causes pulmonary hypertension). Was scheduled for surgery in Sioux Falls today, but last Thursday surgeon called and said the most recent echocardiogram showed a right ventricle issue. It is susceptible to not reviving and Sioux Falls lacks the equipment to revive it.
So surgery needs to be in Twin Cities or Mayo Clinic.
I would be going to my daughter's outside Chicago anyway and so I decided to make my way to her place. When I get the date for surgery, I will fly in and after return to my daughter's.
So I decided to get my butt over there.
Eau Claire was my first stop and to me represented the last time I would have to be somewhat active until the surgery what with the packing and the long drive. Yesterday I drove to Milwaukee to see family and that is just a stone's throw as will be today's drive to Erica's. Once I am there I am all set.
So, when all the work was done and I was laying in bed in the hotel watching the glorious first half with a couple cold ones - that was pure heaven. I couldn't believe my fortunes.
So that was my pretty intense personal context around the game as I watched it in a hotel in Eau Claire.
Finally, thank God the surgeon told me all my heart issues are correctible.