Ouch!
The cardiologist in AZ said it's too early for Pam to travel. Her heart "took a major hit" and has dead tissue as a result of her heart attack. It may regenerate but it may also give her more trouble. He wants her to stay there for another week to be sure she's stable enough to travel. He said will feel OK if she's there until next Monday or Tuesday. He doesn't need to see her again; if she doesn't have any trouble between now and then she's good to go.
She can resume normal activity - her morning walks - so long as she starts very slowly & carefully and is alert to any discomfort.
Before I turn in for the night the plan is to have her booked on a direct flight from Phoenix to Eugene next Monday. There's only one option and it leaves at 1:30, arriving at 4:15.
This is NOT going to be a cell phone lot pickup. For this one I park and go into the airport!!
The "earliest available" physical therapy appointment is Friday at 7:30 a.m., and that only because they had a cancellation. I jumped on it.
OK, not literally because I can hardly walk. Jumping is out of the question.
I need help! (and the barns need cleaning)
In the age of the #MeToo and #Time'sUp movements the principle of innocent until proven guilty has apparently expired. A nominee for the Supreme Court is being told by prominent politicians and columnists he should withdraw over an accusation made by someone about an event 35 years ago when both were in High School. So far this accuser has not agreed to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, has proffered no witnesses, and put forward no substantiating evidence or corroborating accounts. The nominee has been vetted by the FBI six times through his progress up the judicial ladder without any similar accusations and has more character witnesses, including women, than the Apostle Paul.
So in a he said/she said we're to take the accusation of an individual over the denials of a thoroughly vetted man with perfect personal and professional credentials.
Any suggestion that the woman may not be telling the truth is labeled victim shaming, a mortal sin in this environment.
We've got to get past this societal imbalance.
Disclosure: my attitude on this is affected by my personal history as someone who was accused of improper behavior toward a female. It took three weeks for the truth of my innocence to be established. I think the woman would have passed a lie detector test, which only proves she was convinced of a reality she had created. But it wasn't the objective, real reality which (thankfully) documentation demonstrated.
Which is to say that the earnest testimony of the accuser isn't enough. It's not that they're necessarily lying, they have just constructed their own reality for reasons we may never fully understand (but which I think have their roots in emotional issues).
And of course we all know that university professors in CA are free of any political bias.
Q: What's the difference between a snake and a Yugo?
A: You can count the rattles on a snake.
I just talked to Pam. I've booked the flight and she'll be home Monday late afternoon. I'd rather not have her gone another week. But if the dr. is right and there's any risk of something going wrong I would sure rather have her there than here. It does seem the cardiac care in AZ has OR beat.
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