Lets get to the heart of the matter...

[Roger Poirier]

Boys, I'm down but not out... I have been very quiet the past few weeks. Ever since my trip to RTTH3 in TN this past fall I have been beat. Exhausted is more like it. I remember saying the same thing when I was finishing my own car last year.

Low and behold I now have a heart condition. It's called heart failure. Usually this results from a previous heart attack or poor eating habits etc.

I have neither. Born with a abnormal heart rhythm called arrhythmias. I know from the past few years I was alway tired. I have related that to some of my past back and intestinal surgeries. Never thought more of it.

But now I'm winded at a whole new level. My heart is functioning at 63% efficiency. The doc's tell me its time to install some hardware.

Pacemaker / defibrillator time. Oh well life is a bitch especially when you are only forty nine years old. However, no time to cry just move onward and upward.

So if you don't see me posting at least know I'm reading everyones post.

Surgery is scheduled for the first of the year. Hopefully in a few weeks I will be able to gain some strength back and be re energized. Kind of like the battery commercial. He,he, my own joke, he keeps on running.....

R.P.