Bernie's OK so don't worry, but.......

Bernie had a heart attack last night. But he's going to be ok. I've come home briefly to get a few things straight and let him sleep in ICU. What a frightening night. We were really lucky. He was insisting, as you know he would, that he'd be ok, he just needed oxygen. But he was perspiring and his chest began to hurt (all this happened in about 10 minutes). So I called 911. We got him there barely in time. They just had him on the bed thing in the Emergency Room when he had a cardiac arrest. Alarms went off and everybody dropped everything and went into action. I'm afraid I went slightly hysterical (not a really bad one, but hysterical none the less) and the admissions lady who had just arrived on the scene scooped me up into her ample arms and showed me the waiting room. But they soon came to tell me that they "got him back" right away.

They then did an angiogram and found a blockage in his left or right artery. And they put in a stint. So he's clear for now. But on Monday they'll go back into the other artery and put stints in three other blockages that they found in the other artery. But for now he's resting comfortably in the ICU. The Doc said no calls or visitors for the next two days for sure. So Everyone communicate through me and I'll keep you posted the best I can.

It's ironic that he told me this morning (last night), when I came home from Texas from a delayed flight at 4 A.M., "come out with me on the balcony while I have my last cigarette. He was wearing a patch. So I have the empty box of Marlboros on my desk and he'll smoke another one over my dead body!