Word: bypassed
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...period of pleasant blackout that seems to last an instant (and that later makes you think it's what death and eternity must be like), to come swimming back up into consciousness shaking uncontrollably from the cold. (Your body has been packed in ice for the procedure.) A coronary bypass is routine for the surgeons but memorable for the patient...
...with a bypass--a primitive but miraculous piece of work--has had a premonition of death and now entertains a fragile sense of rebirth: bad news and good news mixed up in a disconcerting way that you have to get used to. You have the metaphysical sense of having become a different person (you have certainly, at least for a time, stopped being a patron of Burger King), and you may sense that the rest of your life is borrowed time--an extension purchased by surgical slice-and-splice. Your life feels provisional and may be canceled at any time...
...really think it probably saved my life," Bill Clinton told Larry King, speaking not about the bypass operation he had last week but about the test--an angiogram--that first showed that the arteries feeding blood to his heart were dangerously blocked. "If people have a family history there, and high cholesterol and high blood pressure," Clinton said, "they ought to consider the angiogram...
...place that stuck him in the hospital. I'm trying to slough it all off on the Big Mac and French fries." SCOTT MCCLARD, owner of McClard's, Bill Clinton's favorite barbecue joint in Hot Springs, Ark., after the President's clogged arteries led to his heart-bypass operation...
RECOVERING. BILL CLINTON, 58, after a four-hour quadruple-bypass operation during which doctors found his heart disease to be extensive, with some of his arteries more than 90% blocked; in New York City. The former President was released from the hospital Friday...