***DALE’S HEART***
Over the past few days, my step-dad Dale has been having
minor chest pains that were treated with aspirin up until now. Today my mom
took him to the emergency room to see what the hell’s going on with his heart.
Dale is still at the hospital, but Mom came home hours ago. She told me that
the doctors and nurses ran several tests on him and they’re going to run a
stress test tomorrow morning. All of the preliminary results are leaning
towards angina, which means the blood vessels in Dale’s heart are too small to
allow proper blood flow. If he passes his stress test, he could be home as
early as tomorrow afternoon. If he doesn’t, then there’s a good chance he’ll
need to have a stint put in his blood vessels.
Dale has a lot of factors working against his body whether
it’s his 69-year-old age, his overweight body, his past with cigarette-smoking,
or the fact that heart disease runs in his family. Despite all of this, I have
a positive feeling he’s going to make it out of the hospital as good as new.
His father had heart disease and he lived well into his 90’s. Dale’s fought
through worse health problems in his life and he’s going to fight through this
too. Ever since he married my mom in 2005, he’s been a huge reason why our
family is living a peaceful life today. If there’s anything our family can do
to help him through this tough obstacle, we’re going to do it.
That last part includes canceling a few trips he and my mom
were going to take in June. A few days after my 32nd birthday, the
two of them were going to fly to Pennsylvania
to visit with family. That’s not going to be possible if Dale’s heart problems
are more serious than we imagined. They also have a concert they’re going to in
Denver with
their childhood friend Sandy. It’s Paul Simon’s final concert before he retires
and I’d really hate for them to miss that. Poor Dale-Pie. Poor, poor Dale-Pie.
If you want to leave well-wishes for Dale, you can do it on
Good Reads, Deviant Art, Blogger.com, and Face Book since that’s where I plan
on leaving this blog. He needs all the love he can get right now. But like I
said earlier, I have faith that he’ll pull through like he has against every
other obstacle in his life. I know I use the word “warrior” a lot in my
writing, but I believe it applies to Dale as well as the magicians and
barbarians in Poison Tongue Tales and Occupy Wrestling. I’m Garrison Kelly and
I’ll see you next time.
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