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...same age--I am some months older--and we both had our first heart attacks in our mid-30s. Over the years, we have been similarly inconvenienced by heart attacks. The elephant has stepped on his chest four times, and on mine twice. Cheney has had one multiple-bypass operation; I have had two of them. We have both had angioplasties, with stents. A couple of years ago, I drew ahead of Cheney in the fancy-therapy category by having DNA injected into my myocardium in order to induce the growth of new vessels--angiogenesis, a still experimental but highly...
...dark basement. You imagine him mounting the stairs with a knife in his hands. You finger the tiny glass cylinder of nitro as if it were Kryptonite. You rub the middle of your chest and feel the bumpy scars where the bone was wired back together after bypass...
Thanks to your article "Hearts and Minds," about the mental fog that can set in after heart-bypass surgery, friends and family are now looking at me for signs of cognitive impairment [MEDICINE, Feb. 19]. Five years ago, I had one quadruple bypass that was botched and six months later mended with a double bypass. Today, here I am, and apart from a lifelong hatred of the New York Times crosswords, I am fine. Maybe you should hold off publishing articles like this one until all the facts are known. Until then, Dick Cheney and I will be closely watched...
Fifteen years ago, I underwent quadruple-bypass surgery. Last summer I had a second bypass plus a valve job. I have fantasized about Kim Basinger for years. However, now I am overwhelmed by an inordinate desire to sing in French and solve quadratic equations. Could this be due to cognitive decline? LARRY VERGA Avon Lake, Ohio...
...have seen no evidence of Cheney either acting screwy or forgetting things. He seems the perfect Duke of Kent, who was King Lear's bluff, loyal, sane liege man and exec. I am another story. I certainly have had bouts of the bypass depression...