hi, v907 just realized i had chatted with you last night. read your blog just now. gee almost feel nostalgia for the good old cath lab...got my 5th stent on 7/5 and it felt like the same old same old. maybe i'm a veteran now. but technology is fabulous. i just met a cousin of mine who lives in canada. just met to me means just 2 years ago, since then she has worked at becoming that phenomenon, virtual bionic woman...replacement knees, shoulder, hip, cataracts...i hope i don't go on and on. but she says the worst was depression. must run in the family since that is what gets me most since my stroke. this site posits a positive outlook which galls my basic cynicsm,,,,i'd rather be angry altho i have to admit i'd rather read a good book (one blessing i really count on and nowadays my eyesight is going a bit wonky) but the cath lab can work wonders....i'd love to see pictures of the ongoing process. but i had real trouble with the damn recovery period. i wanted to get up and move around but i was a a good boy and stayed inert. but unless one is a squeaky wheel, one can be forgotten and so it was for me. 2 hours after the four hours i was a good patient, i'd had enough and became indignant which is a nice way of putting it. i'd put that well behind me but now that i recall being forgotten, i'm not happy with my response on one hand i feel i shouod have hit the roof, on the other i wish i had maintained some stoicism but i did not. still haven't gotten the hospital bill yet. maybe i can use my negative experience as something of a bargaining chip. but maybe the hospital will "forget" the inevitable bill. still, i'm lucky to be able to type this account because i had forgotten all about it...maybe that's a left field benefit of stroke after-effects jf