Sorry to hear the news, Cheesey. Was going to make a joke about not getting older sucking worse, but didn't want you to think I was being flip about your heart attack.

Hope that any damage to the heart tissue was minimal, and you'll not have any long term problems because of it.

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MacBob......please remember who you are talking too! THE CHEESE himself!
I would have known how you meant the comment!!!=d>

Zero......i don't expect you to get me anothe Wii! (Maybe a few new games....LOLOL!!!) Seriously, i've still been using it alot! Got my 3rd 300 game in Wii bowling!

Illy.......life sure isn't dull, hey? But i'm still here...for now! LJ refuses to let me go!!!

Veg,,,,i'm just hoping there is a football season to watch!

Yoop.....I appreciate your words of encouragement. I still remember fondly getting to meet you at the Packer game! And a knee replacement? My brother in law had that. Hurt BAD! But he was REALLY happy with the results!

Dakota.....i knew life wasn't fair a LOOOONG time ago! But i try to hang in there, best as i can.

Rock.....if God wants me, I'm READY! But it's true, there must be a reason for me still to be here, or i wouldn't.

Thanks again all, for the words of love/help!

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Alan, you take it easy! Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to Milwaukee this summer due spending as much free time with my dad. I would love to hit up another Twins/Brewers game with you (only this time with a Twins win!) Stay strong, have faith, and be healthy.

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Thanks Formo!
I had a blast with you last year!

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I just got back from my nuclear stress test.
My cardiologist thinks that maybe my meds were what caused the weird test results.
I will find out by Wednesday how it turned out.
But i didn't collapse on the stress test, so i must be OK.
I was gonna type you from the clinic where i was having it done. They have a computer there as a service to patients, and i was actually on here for a few minutes around 9am. They TOLD me they wouldn't be ready for me until 10am.......so i just got on the site, and i hear "Where is Mr. Smith???" So i had to shut down before i could do anything more then send a private message.

So as soon as i got home, i walked to the library so i could talk.

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Woo hoo! Good news on the stress test, Cheesey! =d>

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Yes, good news on the stress test.

So, what is a stress test? Do they have someone call you and say "Mr. Cheesey, this is the IRS. We're going to have to audit your 2002 taxes."

That would stress me out.

Or, do they have a kid with a non-familiar voice call you and say "Dad?" Yikes.

I'm getting stressed just thinking about that.

Well, sometimes things happen for a reason. You probably got thousands of more jokes to tell. [roflmao]

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I don't know how Alan's worked, but when I had mine they hooked me up with about a zillion electrodes and then put me on a treadmill. They increased the speed/incline until I couldn't go anymore. As my cardio at the time put it, "we want to get your heart rate up and stress it in a way that just about, but not quite, would cause a heart attack in an unhealthy heart.

Of course he didn't say this until he was sure I wasn't going to back out.

Talk about a WTF moment: "You're going to try and see how close you can get to making me have a heart attack? WTF???"

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And in honor of the good news on your stress test, Alan, II offer the following link as a tribute to your jokes....

A paronomastic's dictionary 

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Just talked to my cardiologist's nurse. She said all the results came out "normal". (One of the few times anyone has said that about ME)
Anyway, what they did was called a "nuclear stress test". (No....it's NOT where they tell you they are shipping you off to the Japan reactor!)
What they did was, insert a IV into the back of my right hand, then inject radioactive material. Then you wait 30 minutes, and they put you on a scanner that takes pictures of your heart. THEN they put you on a tread mill, try to KILL YOU, then inject MORE radioactive stuff into you, wait 30 minutes (order a pizza) and then take pix to see what your heart is doing after all that crap.

So you guys(and gals) are stuck with me for awhile longer i guess.

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