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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5197)	2/24/2006 2:24:45 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26020

Laz, No mystery there. He'd simply find another doctor. Preferably one who liked to ski. <g> - Holly

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5197)	2/25/2006 1:07:10 PM
From: Drygulch Dan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26020

Find another doc??? Actually I chose my doc very carefully. Last summer after the heart attack and stroke, I quickly figured out that I wanted to recover at altitude. So that dictated that I find a doctor at Tahoe which was convenient as that was where I was at the time of the attack. As it turned out the two cardiac doctors in the area are brothers and the older one was a founder of Truckee Tahoe Hospital. He has been around skiing since before I started breaking legs, a long time ago. He is also licensed in Colorado. It was a no-brainer, which was good in my case just starting to overcome my stroke to go with him. So circumstances put me in the right place. Dr. Lombard was a practicing surgeon in 1953 in the state of New York !! The guy has been around medicine a long time. He doesn't look his age. Of course he said keep it below this level of exertion after measuring my ability on a belt. Skiing was always in the recovery plan. Its the sailing that has him concerned. He keeps coming up with ideas for me to take on the boat. First it was nitroglycerin. Then it was just an oxygen supply. Now its a continuous supply of O2 derived from air processed through some sort of pump the produces pure O2 extracting all the nitrogen. I'll need to research this, no idea where to buy such a device. A hooka system (which costs about $1000) doesn't extract the nitrogen so I'm sure this ultimate system is going to be expensive. Of course living and breathing are pretty valuable activities.