General Discussion

My dad had two bypass operations -- the first was supposed to be a triple, but the second time they said actually it had turned into a quadruple, and they needed to make it a quintuple. They were running out of blood vessels to work with. Still, he made it to 84 with a pacemaker. And he probably would have lived longer if he had listened to his doctor more and taken his Rx as prescribed.

He spent most of his life considering medium-rare steaks to be the best food in the world. It must not be genetic, because I always found beef to be kind of boring -- certainly not something I'd want to see at every meal. I probably have much clearer arteries because of it. After his surgery, the steak dinners kind of disappeared.