Where is everyone?

Dave - sounds like you have a nice mix going on.

DD's counseling appointment apparently went well - she likes the counselor, and told me to go ahead and schedule another.

No run for me today, just 36 lengths (18 laps) in the pool.

((Posai)) healing hugs for your Papi

((Jlynne)) so very sorry to hear about your nephew

My life is less than dull as well. Worked 40 hours in 3 days - the 3rd of which was a 16 hour shift that had me up yesterday at 2am.

Last night came home to my DH not looking so well. He was saying he "just didn't feel right" and had some chest discomfort and general aches which actually started on Friday - he was trying to brush it off as coming down with something but I wanted to take him to have it checked out. He said no and was just going to take ibuprofen and go to bed - well the climb up the stairs didn't go so well.  I went up a few minutes after him and he was sitting at the edge of the bed short of breath and sweaty. I wanted to call ambulance but he wanted me to drive him to the hospital. We got there and his BP was skyrocketed but his EKG was normal. Over a couple of hours, BP kept coming down, cardiac enzymes just a tad elevated and lipase was up - they were thinking pancreas. WRONG I went home with a false reassurance, ran 6.5 miles this morning to destress and went back to hospital. His cardiac enzymes had more than tripled overnight!! He was transferred from the small campus of Lowell General to the main campus and had a cardiac cath done. He has some abnormalities in the arteries from his heart which we never knew and 1 artery was 100% blocked - they were able to put a stent in that one. Another was 80% blocked but in a spot that they couldn't reach without possibly causing more damage. A couple others were 30-40% blocked - those should all respond to medication therapy. So when all is said and done he was definitely having a heart attack in progress!! Thank God we didn't wait another day to get him to the hospital - life could be very different for me tonight - counting my blessings!!

Now I knew that age was bound to slow me down,

but I can really see that the downward slope is getting steeper. 

Don’t despair rochie.
Everyone’s different, e.g. I’ve been on the north side
of six hours for the last four years but my nemesis
for the last 25 years is still able to slip under four hours
and her AG time would have won the last four Portland
Marathons outright.
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In the meantime, after twenty-five years of over/under four hours
or so, my three-somethings finally came in 2002 at age 58
and rapidly lost another hour to a final sub-five only five years
later in 2007 (64) and a last sub-six in 2012 (69).
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However, just as a final sub 4:30 did at Boomer Reunion
in Portland in 2006 (63), last month’s RA-reunion Portland
gave hope that, even at 73, it’s not all over quite yet (6:00:34).
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Good luck.

ps - Your half mary’s are way ahead of mine.

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pps - I’d like to see TomS’s age/time progressions
in the same races he’s been running for decades.
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ppps erika - thanks. It’s like pulling teeth to get information
on state plans but it’s my new mission (to be completed before 12/7).
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everyone: it’s sometimes tough enough to take care of ourselves

nowadays but pretty helpless when it’s someone else who’s dear.

Deez - scary!  But, like Erika said, good thing you didn't let up and got him checked out.

Roch - what Tet said...