keep on pumping

saw my cardiologist this afternoon ---

i told him that a heart attack, which took out my maternal grandfather in about five minutes, was much preferable to multiple strokes, which took ten years to kill my paternal grandfather --- and he managed to do a lot of drooling on his shirt in those ten years --- all he could tell me was that it was the same preventive maintenance for both

see ya next year, he said

how to survive a heart attack when you're alone

one thinks about such things as one gets older --- but as my aunt savannah used to say: "ain't none of us getting out of this alive"