It's National Good Grammar Day (I don't make up these days.....)
NATIONAL GRAMMAR DAY
National Grammar Day is observed across the United States each year on March 4th. The observance encourages the use of correct grammar in both verbal and written language.
According to the Global Language Monitor, the estimated number of words in the English language is 1,025,109. There is some controversy over that figure, but it’s safe to say it is over a million.
bodypainter wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 9:10 am
Good morning ladies. I joke about Van Morrison when we hear him on the radio. In his later music, he only sings vowels.
Some guys are here cleaning up the front yard. Larry is thinking about taking out a tree and maybe resodding. Not sure why but....
Anyway, they sure are loud. . It is a tiny front yard (pie shaped lot) so it shouldn't take long.
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
WOW - that's quite the adventure. So glad you paid attention and followed-up with everything.
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
WOW - that's quite the adventure. So glad you paid attention and followed-up with everything.
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
Whoa.
That is alot of info to digest. But you are on the right path to get it fixed. ❤
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
Goodness! Glad it was caught in time.
If I wasn't fishing in this all day rain,I'd be home doing something stupid.
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
Whoa.
That is alot of info to digest. But you are on the right path to get it fixed. ❤
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
Goodness! Glad it was caught in time.
Thanks Bill, I think the symptoms just snuck up on me and until I was having the episodes of shoulder pain, I really didn't think too much about it.
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
Goodness! Glad it was caught in time.
Thanks Bill, I think the symptoms just snuck up on me and until I was having the episodes of shoulder pain, I really didn't think too much about it.
Good to hear you'll be getting it fixed ASAP & will carry on from there. Was your shoulder pain that of a stabbing type pain from time to time?
Corona by day, Corona by night, any old time is just alright!
melon59 wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 2:06 pm
I'm back at home and the plan is to move forward with minimally invasive open heart surgery to replace the aortic valve. Apparently, if I had ignored my symptoms it would have ended up with an episode that would have required emergency surgery. The surgeon said without intervention life expectancy would be about a year. . Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
Goodness! Glad it was caught in time.
Thanks Bill, I think the symptoms just snuck up on me and until I was having the episodes of shoulder pain, I really didn't think too much about it.
Good to hear you'll be getting it fixed ASAP & will carry on from there. Was your shoulder pain that of a stabbing type pain from time to time?
No, it is a deeper pain that radiates down my arm into the palm of my hand and sometimes up the side of my neck toward the jaw. And I would feel like I had butterflies in my chest at the same time. Apparently, that was my body telling me that I didn't have enough oxygenated blood pumping out into my extremities? If I walk very far, very fast, my arm will start hurting and I get extremely short of breath. The best way I can explain the pain is you know that empty, tingling sensation you get when you are really really hungry like you feel like you are eating your own insides ...it's kinda like that with a deep pain and my episodes can last up to an hour....
springparrot wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 6:27 pm
Don't you have a daughter? Does she have any signs?
I have 3 daughters and so far none have been told that they have a heart murmur. I'm definitely going to ask them to be pro active and get checked out. My middle daughter is an RN and is actively documenting the family history of cardiac issues.
springparrot wrote: ↑March 4, 2021 6:27 pm
Don't you have a daughter? Does she have any signs?
I have 3 daughters and so far none have been told that they have a heart murmur. I'm definitely going to ask them to be pro active and get checked out. My middle daughter is an RN and is actively documenting the family history of cardiac issues.
. It is a tiny front yard (pie shaped lot) so it shouldn't take long.
. Apparently the aortic valve is a tricuspid valve and mine is missing a flap making it a bicuspid valve. No wonder I have had a murmur all of my life. My older brother has had his replaced too and his was also bicuspid.... genetics...so I got that going for me, which is nice. I should hear from the scheduling dept within a week. The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned!
