this prior post<\/a>. This one is a little more complicated than the first two, because there are branches off the artery. There’s a small chance — about 10% — that as the stent is inserted, a chunk of the plaque it dislodges could block one of those branches, causing an extremely mild heart attack. The doctor says less than 1% of the heart muscle would be affected, and once the pain subsides, I’ll never know the difference. Still, the prospect produces a little anxiety.<\/p>\nIf all goes well, they’ll keep me in the hospital overnight for observation; standard procedure. If I’m one of the 10%, I’ll have to stay another day or two; also standard procedure.
\nSo I may miss posting for a day or two, despite my new resolve to do it daily.<\/p>\n
Anxiety of one sort or another has taken a very large toll on my work — or rather, on my output of work — for the past decade and a half. It’s something I need to master. Soon.<\/p>\n
More on that another time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The cat seems better. Tomorrow I go to the hospital to have the the third stent inserted, as explained in this prior post. This one is a little more complicated than the first two, because there are branches off the artery. There’s a small chance — about 10% — that as the stent is inserted, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}