It's been 19 years to the day. Massive heart attack, BAM! Out of nowhere! I add that little qualifier as I'd just had a work physical a couple weeks before. Full check-up. Heart, lungs, blood pressure, full blood work; everything came back excellent. Yet somehow the docs missed the ticking time bomb in my chest. It was genetic. My father and his father before him suffered identical heart attacks. My grandfather wound up having 2 more before he snuffed it. Dear ol' dad made it to just shy of his 88th birthday. My own health has been a veritable rollercoaster ride since then. Prostate cancer, 2 strokes, blood cancer...it's always something. Hell, I just had a precancerous something-or-other cut off my face a couple months back. I'm still here. Still kicking, albeit not as high or as hard. The heart attack sucked. I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was still self-employed. I worked crazy hours, plus I was still gigging pretty regularly. I wasn't merely ...
Short stories, essays, ramblings, musings, and other such nonsense.