X-Message-Number: 4319
Date: 30 Apr 95 02:57:30 EDT
From: Michael Riskin <>
Subject: The Importance of Being Earnestly Educated

  Last Saturday, I went to the emergency room with an annoying case of
heartburn. It turned out to be a non trans-mural myocardial infarction.
So it was ICU time. 
  First...you would have had to be there to know the feeling of being
signed up for suspension at that moment. Besides the obvious reasons, it
got me focused....real focused...as I made sure EVERYONE at the hospital
was aware of my arrangements....and what needed to be done. (Fred
Chamberlain did a "what to do if in a crisis at the hospital" training
for Alcor members about a year or so ago, and it all came back to me). 
They took this seriously, it got on my charts, what to do etc. Alcor was
contacted of course. It is a bit of a haze right now, but I do recall
managing to get a phone hooked up in my ICU room and talking to Hugh
Hixon. Exactly the demeanor, voice, and down to business attitude I
needed.
 So: Sign up, be prepared, and make friends with a nice, friendly, and
professional suspension team!
 What I need to figure out is how, in spite of being a non-smoker, very
light drinker, weight appropriate, exercising, normal BP, reasonable
cholesterol; I have CAD, and what to do about it.
Michael Riskin


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