[lit-ideas] Re: Senior Citizenship
- From: carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:58:26 -0800
So glad you've pulled through!
Carol K.,
pedestrianly speaking
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Mike Geary
<jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Two weeks ago I was officially confirmed as a Senior Citizen. I had one of
> my coronary veins rotorootered and a stent implanted. It may or may not
> come as a surprise that I am a hater of hospitals and all things requiring
> me to relinquish any control over my precious body. Nevertheless, I did.
> It was a thoroughly demeaning and unpleasant experience except for one
> procedure. An intern or technician wheeled a TV type monitor into my room.
> He gelled up a sonagram type probe and started rubbing it on my chest. It
> was a Doppler Sonograph machine. I had a good view of the screen. It was
> fascinating. I could see inside my heart, watch it pulse, watch the valves
> open and close and sometimes the tech would hit a button and with the
> opening of a valve there would be a burst of colors like fireworks: red,
> blue, splotches of yellow, specks of orange -- amazing. Everything was in
> constant motion. I already knew that -- intellectually, I did. But here it
> was in fact. It didn't seem at all the set and orderly place I had
> imagined. More like a water filled balloon -- all in wave motion. It
> struck me then that all my insides were a beehive of motion, more lively
> than my outside. And not just my heart -- all the surrounding tissues, and
> organs, even the bones in their marrow were dancing around all the time.
> There's no such thing as solid flesh, much less "too, too solid
> flesh".Everything that is is in motion all the time. I knew that. Of
> course I did. Even rocks. Had we the eyes we would see them constantly
> spitting out muons and pions and grabbing hold of hadrons, sucking in
> electromagnetic radiation, flinging whole molecules riotously to the wind.
> Yes, not a minute's rest. Even in death we are a whirlwind of motion for
> years and years and years until the very last sub atomic particle zips away.
>
>
> Mike Geary
> moving around merrily n Memphis
>
>
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