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ESSAY: Advice for Clinton from a bypass survivor: don't laugh...
Dear President Clinton: welcome to the confraternity of the cabbage (that's slang for "coronary artery bypass"). The first thing you've noticed is that it hurts. It feels as if someone with the best intentions has shot you in the chest. Discourage people from telling you jokes; don't laugh. Stay still; when you walk, do it carefully. When Henry Kissinger got out of bed after a bypass years ago, he remarked, "Diss vass a bitch...
...millions who bear the marks of membership--the zipper scar down the center of the chest, another long scar worming along the inside of the leg where the tubing was stripped out to jury-rig the heart's new plumbing. (Over the years I have had two multiple-bypass operations, done in the same hospital where yours was performed. My last operation was 11 years ago. I played squash last night for an hour...
...LETTERS NOTEBOOK CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK ELECTION OBSERVED MILESTONES YOUR TIME: Health ESSAY: Lance Morrow on life after a heart bypass...
...also the best way to prevent heart disease. So it came as a shock last week to learn that Clinton, 58, had been admitted to New York--Presbyterian Hospital after complaining of mild chest pain and shortness of breath, and was put on the fast track for quadruple-bypass surgery. Four of the arteries supplying blood to his heart muscles were so clogged that doctors would have to raid vessels from elsewhere in his body to funnel blood around them...