Ken,  Doesn't matter if you finished reading the book as long as you
finished using the bathroom.  Ruth




At 4:10 PM -0500 3/6/03, Ken Follett wrote:
My 15 year old daughter's defillibrator/pacemaker has been in for two
months now, and we're getting some diagnostics now.



Sharpshooter,

I seem to have missed something here... does the device installation relate
to the near drowning? My having walked around the earth for +/- 45 years w/
all sorts of risks of fibrillations w/ WPW syndrome I'm certainly curious &
concerned. She may also want to stay away from electric fences or
super-nova magnets.

The last time I played football at the Toilet Bowl in Syracuse I spent the
evening in the hospital w/ a really weird set of fibrillations that they
had a problem shutting off and keeping shut off. That time when I was
reading Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class, laying on the gurney, the
heart rate settled. It is relaxing to read something confusing and dense in
the midst of a medical emergency. Then when I went to the toilet the fibs
started up all over again. A bit spooked, I never did finish the book. An
interesting evening. Sex is not the ONLY strain on the heart. I read most
of Gargantua & Pantagruel when in the hospital the weeks that lead up to
the ablation. From now on I will include Rabelais in all of my hospital
adventures.

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