December 15th, 1998

Ok, so I said I was done with the journal, but the mail just keeps on coming. Here's some more... Steve.

From: [email protected]

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:01:30 EST

Subject: Bum Ticker - Chapter 20

Dear Steve,

I have also enjoyed reading your journal and am so thrilled for you that

everything has turned out as well as it has. You've been quite the trooper

and the pig jokes have been apropos -- humor is good medicine, after all.

Hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday and we'll continue sending our

prayers for your total recovery and back-to-work. Take care,

Cate, "I have to be put under to get my teeth cleaned," in Atlanta

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:18:23 -0500

From: MJ Grant <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: The Bum Ticker Pages - Mr. Swineheart- Chapter 20

Dear Steve:

Waaaah! We will miss the BT Pages but understand that all good things must

come to an end. Keep up the great writing for yourself nonetheless - you

are so good at it!

Are you really doing web pages? Can you help a beginner make a new website?

I'm about ready to start...

See you next weekend!

MJ

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:44:08 -0800

From: Roger Kittredge <[email protected]>

Hi Steve!

I read your last chapter this morning. I have really enjoyed following your

adventure. I go in for an aortic valve job after the new year. Your

journal has made my process easier and I thank you for that.

To get me ready for this, some of my friends treated me to a round of

golf at Pebble Beach this past week. My first time playing "the beach"

and if your a golfer, its something akin to the Indy 500 for racing fans.

I hope you continue to do well and you'r up to full speed soon.

Oink oink!

Roger.

From: Barbara Steele <[email protected]>

Subject: RE: open heart surgery

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 11:58:20 -0500

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We wish you all the best for

your recovery. Please do not hesitate to contact your local Heart and

Stroke Foundation office (you will find it in the white pages of the phone

book) for information on heart disease and various lifestyle guides that can

help you.

Sincerely,

Barbara Steele

Manager, Communications

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 11:21:53 -0600

From: "Jack E. Copsey III" <[email protected]>

Subject: heart valve

Steve,

Thanks for your web-site it has helped prepare me for my surgery which I

was told today will probably be in Jan. Thanks for e.mailing me back

last time.

I was told they are going to take my pulmonary valve and

artery and move it to the aortic position and then put a donor valve

in its place-The Ross procedure. I haven't had a consult with my surgeon yet.

that is soon- anyway I have a leak caused from a murmur and

endocarditis. I hope I fell as well as you seem to afterwards.

Take good care of yourself and family. I have a Dalmatian and 2 cats and a

one year old little boy named Lucas-and a husband Jack.

Lots of warmth

Julie

From: [email protected]

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:21:24 EST

Subject: Journal

Wonderful journal, especially for me since I have slight (at least for now)

aortic insufficiency, which may eventually require an aorta replacement. It

should only be getting better for you from now on.

John Feeney

Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 23:57:44 +1100 (EST)

From: "Erik H. Andersen" <[email protected]>

Subject: Goodbye?

Steve - - Well, I was wondering how you would end it... Just finished reading Mr.

Swineheart. Just thought I'd drop you another note and say thanks once more

for sharing your experience with the world. As I said when I first contacted

you, it was amazing and inspiring to find your journal and to find someone

who was going through exactly what I was/am going to be going through and

who was soooo close to me in personal profile and thought processes. It has

done me no end of good...

I am now well settled and resolved to my surgery, which is scheduled for

January 12th. In a slightly ghoulish way I am looking forward to it. Firstly

I want it over and done with. Secondly, I want to prove to myself that I can

deal with it. Bring it on.

Hope that all goes well for you from here on out. I'm sure you have hundreds

of e-mail pals now in addition to your recently extended family. I'll

probably send you one or two updates as all things go ahead, or as I go

through the recovery, I may write to compare aches and pains!

Cheers... Erik (Australia)

Sorry to interrupt your reading, but if you are enjoying this journal so far, then you'd probably enjoy my music as well. Please check out my music site, listen to some sample sound clips of my songs and please order one of my CD's. I'd really appreciate your support. Thanks, Steve.

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