Good news! My echocardiogram results came back and showed no significant difference from 6 months ago...which means open-heart surgery has been delayed by at least another 6 months... ;-)
My cardiologist's only recommendations: Lower your blood pressure (134/70ish) even more by decreasing caffeine intake and shedding more pounds. My goal is to lose 10 pounds and get to 159 within the next few months. But I'm not ready to go to the extremes that Dick has, I don't have his willpower... :-D
Finally, I've been contacted to enquire whether I'd be willing to take part in a study on reducing serum cholesterol in an effort to delay the progression of aortic stenosis which I was born with. The research is conducted at the Ottawa Heart Institute and is funded in part through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (www.cihr.gc.ca). Details of the study are found at:
http://webapps.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/pls/funding/detail_e?pResearchId=375685&p_version=CIHR&p_language=E&p_session_id=84925
I haven't decided yet on whether I'll take part. More later.
My rant: I got this in my e-mail a few days ago.
"High profile Members of the House and Senate [in the U.S.] have introduced legislation providing financial incentives for undergraduate study in mathematics, science or engineering. Under this legislation, the federal government would pay the interest on student loans for undergraduates agreeing to teach science, technology, engineering or mathematics in elementary or secondary schools or who work as a professional in these fields for five years."
Unbelievable. Canada's waaay behind in fostering home-grown S&T talent, especially in kids. The Americans realize that they need to ramp up their S&T capability by getting more kids turned on to science, and though this proposed legislation, are willing to *put into a law* the means of rewarding young people who choose a science career. Things certainly have changed since I was a kid - I just wish that our politicians had the vision to do something similar. *Sigh.*
For more on this, see FYI Number 61: April 27, 2005 (http://www.aip.org/fyi/2005/061.html)
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