Dammit, things is messed up.

[TheTman]

The BATF closed my favorite gun store, cause the husband of the FFL holder is a felon, I had no idea.
http://www.kansas.com/2012/08/22/245...an-beauty.html

And yesterday I had a heart catheter, and they couldn't fix the problem, so have to have a triple by-pass in a week from today. I am not liking none of this. Then 6 weeks of down-time after the by-pass. Got 100%, an 80% and a 60% blockages. So after next week I won't be around here for a while. OK, you can stop cheering now.
Y'all take care while I'm away.

[Longitude Zero]

Take care and praying for a rapid, full and complete recovery.

[les strat]

I sent you a PM

[MikeyKahr]

Prayers for you T, sorry to hear this news on top of everything else you have gone through lately. I'm glad they found it and will be taking care of it next week.

[Bawanna]

Bad news but you got a huge cheering squad right here. Get ya a lap top. We'll help keep your spirits up while your laying around.

Think how much better your gonna feel when you got all the lines running at capacity, you'll be a new man. Have to tie an anchor to your foot to keep up with ya.

We're routing for ya, don't give the nurses too bad a time, they are the most important player, make or break a hospital stay.

[melissa5]

I'll be sending knee mail for you.

[mluikey]

Be thinking of you man. Speedy recovery

[TheTman]

Thanks everyone for the kind words thoughts an prayers. I do have a laptop so maybe i can hook up to the hospital's network. They put a hard cast on my wrist the other day, and it makes it a bit of a chore to do quite a bit of things like type, but that's ok, i would probably get it off ib a month, but not sure if i'll be out of the heart rehab place yet.
The by-pass has me a little bit nervous, both the procedure, they gotta open up your rib cage to get to the heart and then replace some arteries or veins - just doesnt sound like much fun at all, and the 6-8 week recovery time. Hopefully the lawn will be dormant by then. Lack of rain has it growin very slow anyway. Had some things planned, but guess they will wait. And gonna miss a lot of good ridin weather, but maybe I can ride after awhile, have to ask. can't ride at all right now with this cast on. i'm sick of it after just a few days. Now i kinda wish I'd waited to get a dog, but i think my brother will board him for awhile. oh well if we didn't have some bad times in our lives, we wouldn't know when we had the better times.

[OldLincoln]

Best of wishes and prayers to you, Tom. You're a good guy and have a lot of messing around on the forum to do so hurry back. Of course you still have a week to cause dickens around here so have at it!

[getsome]

Good luck to ya there thetman, we're all pulling for you...I know you are bummed by the diagnosis but TRUST me on this, It's a million times better to get the pipes cleared now BEFORE a major heart attack which will do irreversible damage....The Doc's got this thing down to a science now and I personally know three men who after a stress test found out the same thing your Doc told you and they all had a triple bypass performed and all were up and around in a very short period of time and EACH one said they couldn't believe how much better they felt once the blood was flowing properly again...

My prayers are with you as well as everyone else here at the club so don't worry about a thing and get your butt back here pronto fellow!!!!

[dkmatthews]

Tom, I'm keeping you and the medical staff in my thoughts and prayers. The medical staff because I hope it's the best procedure they've ever performed. You because I hope you make it back to full strength in record time.

[MC1911]

Get well!

Like the other poster said, you will be a new man.

My dad went through the same thing,it was a super improvement.

You will be a new man after you get done.


Happy shooting.

[Longitude Zero]

I have several friends who have had bypass surgery. EVEY one said the incision to take the vein out of your leg to get the bypass material hurt FAR worse than the cracked chest. Maybe they will use a dacron/artificial vein for the bypasses.

[yqtszhj]

We expect you back promptly in 4 weeks at the most. Hang in there.

On the positive side, you're still going ok when going in. That's why I say see you in 4 weeks at the most. 15 years ago my dad had a heart attack, heart stopped twice, then triple bypass, and he's been good ever since so you'll do well. Try to flirt with the nurses. It helped my dad get through it OK too .

[Alfonse]

No fun, but I'll be sending good thoughts your way too. Amazing what a bunch of folks doing that can do.