Song for Bill and Dondra (and anyone else who has struggles)

TIG (Jim): Thanks SOOO much for this. When we get a quiet moment we'll sit and let D listen to it as well. However right now I'm fighting with one of her docs who wants to give her a drug which has the following warning and I need to get my act together and make some notes in our defense...... EDITED TO ADD: The word "Defense" is too strong. We're not being FORCED to take the meds. Maybe y'all will know what I mean. Not thinking to clearly right now. In haste,

Bill

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WARNING

MORTALITY

In the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST), a long-term, multi-center, randomized, double-blind study in patients with asymptomatic non-life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias who had a myocardial infarction more than 6 days but less than 2 years previously, an increased rate of death or reversed cardiac arrest rate (7.7%; 56/730) was seen in patients treated with encainide or flecainide (Class IC antiarrhythmics) compared with that seen in patients assigned to placebo (3.0%; 22/725). The average duration of treatment with encainide or flecainide in this study was 10 months.

The applicability of the CAST results to other populations (e.g., those without recent myocardial infarction) or other antiarrhythmic drugs is uncertain, but at present, it is prudent to consider any IC antiarrhythmic to have a significant proarrhythmic risk in patients with structural heart disease. Given the lack of any evidence that these drugs improve survival, antiarrhythmic agents should generally be avoided in patients with non-life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, even if the patients are experiencing unpleasant, but not life-threatening, symptoms or signs.

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This is what I am dealing with at present, so excuse me if it's a while before I am in contact again. Zurf Thank you also for the tunes. I have listened to 2 of them as well while getting ready to go back to the hospital.

It's gettin' a little INtense here in Jawja, my friends.

Bye for now

Bill

I absolutely agree  - in the post title, I included everyone with struggles.  My best wishescertainly go out to NELA and his lady as well !!

Me too! I see dino's double dildo and raise him three more!

I just played it loud enough for D to hear in her bedroom, and I don't know if it was the stress from the past week and a half leaving us both or the words sung with such feeling that caused us both to tear up a little and hug and kiss at the end.

My friend, I can tell from your words and your voice that you are an old* soul with a kind and loving heart and I am very proud to know you.

Dondra will thank all of you personally asap. Right now she's in her jammies and about to head to "Dreamland".

Thanks once again for this wonderful gift to both of us, Jim.

Bill

*"old soul", in this instance has nothing to do with age, but you knew that already, right?

And NOT one B or B7 anywhere to be found, TIGger! . I had been meaning to tell you that, but with all the stuff that's been going on here, I just kept forgetting. Dondra just heard the latest version, liked it so much that she asked me to learn it for our anniversary.

"Which one?" (anniversary), I asked her.

^That's going to take some explaining and it's been a "private" joke just between she and I, but since you, TIG, along with all my other friends are now family, I'll let you in on it.

I may have mentioned that she and I are married for the second time (there were 22 years between marriage 1 and 2 with no other marriages inbetween - long story). Well, for some reason we both have been forgetting our second marriage's anniversary and have been going back and forth since about which one we ought to honor.

We still haven't come to a satisfactory date, so what do my friends here think?

Sounds like a song, don't it?

Ah, but that's my life: A sitcom, and I'm enjoying it more and more as I look back. Enjoying it more now that I'm part of our musical family, too!

Thanks a million, Jim for that beautiful, and more than fitting song which I plan to learn and sing for my bride who I loved so much I married her twice!

Your Friend

Bill

Sounds good.