The Old Prof

august 15, about 2:20PM

the list

Steve and I have worked down our list and enjoyed the hell out of it. We didn’t quite make it all. Sky diving, floating on the propeller driven cushion of air and riding horseback fast are still hanging out there. September is the month. Yesterday Steve called to say he is on the edge of having another heart attack and there isn’t much they can do if they can do anything. He has had the stents. He goes in soon for a catheter to see just what is going on. Its been a good run. … As it is I look back and revel in “aerial combat” with the Top Dog Program, Arizona Dude Ranching, Canyoneering in Costa Rica, Horseback riding in the rain and mist over the continental…

Ah hell! Sue just now called .

Steve is now in the hospital. with a heart attack. It doesn’t look good. She was so overcome when she called me that she said, “Oh… sob…Steve is ….[long, long silence while I thought, “Oh no. He has died!] And then the news that he was having a heart attack. I am going over to Kaiser now. 2:27 PM

5:48 P.M. Just got back from Kaiser. Yes he was having a heart attack but is ok for the moment. he looks good but isn’’t. Scotty and I gave him a blessing. Ran into Shannon, his daughter, as I was headed in. she said that as she was driving him in he got so short of breath he was sucking on the air conditioner trying to get enough air.

Sat with him for several hours. At one point he made a call to his work to let them know he wouldn’t be in tomorrow. He told the guy he was talking to that they told him that when he was admitted it was just a matter of minutes and it would have been over. He had actually gone in to work today.

Steve will be transported to Kaiser in Sunset [?] for a catheter and perhaps stent(s) or whatever is needed, up to open heart surgery, in the morning. He is in good spirits and his kids have been there. Sue is flying in from Dallas, probably arriving at 8 or 8:30 tonight.

I just got home and can’t find Sandy. {sandy is my wife and as you probably know has anterograde amnesia from a bout of valley fever that the doctors said would kill her] Had tried to call from the hospital and if I could have gotten her I would have stayed till sue got there but when I kept getting a busy signal I decided she had used the phone to call a cab to take her to a restaurant to eat and had not hung it up properly and would probably forget how she got there and be wandering around scared so I left and came home.

The phone was off the hook. Going over to Millies [her favorite restaurant] to see if she went there.

Found her.

Ok, She apparently did take a cab to go out to Millies All American Restaurant and after eating forgot how she got there and when I wasn’t there walked to Steve’s and just sat there confused on the wall by his place. I thought she would and its a good thing because she would otherwise still be there.