Welcome back, Mike
As most blog readers to this site already know, February is Heart Month. Where have I been?
Earlier in the month, I caught the tail-end of a Canada AM morning health food segment with nutritionist Leslie Beck and the always jovial Mike Duffy, from his home in Ottawa. Silly me, should have connected the heart dots, right away. Truthfully, I must have been the only viewer in Canada, who didn't know that Duffy is also a recent recovering cardiac grad.
The Charlottetown-born political journalist and star of CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live, is now back pounding the Ottawa political scene once more, after a five month hiatus. About time, too. It's good to see him once more filling the screen -- albeit a little less so, these days -- as if he had only taken a few days off, to holiday back at his beloved Prince Edward Island.
What struck me most, from a weekend follow-up article by Sarah Hampton in the Globe & Mail, was a similar snakes-and-ladder road map he encountered, as I did, in our respective recovery phase.
The last thing either one of us needed with similar Type-A work habits, were periods of memory loss in the early recovery weeks following surgery. I thought I was alone in this unmapped mine field. Happily, not so, if that's the right way for me to report it.
As ageing boomers of a certain composition, I suspect we'll both be weight-challenged for a while longer, too. Well, me anyway, at this rate. I'm currently stalled at minus-nine on the scales, with good intentions. For the uninformed, that's a nine pound weight loss since The-Day. Mike's currently at about minus-forty, and still climbing in the right direction. At this rapid pace, he'll soon be fading out like background music. Good on 'im! I've no doubt, his trusty RN wife and caregiver, has him on a short lunch-leash.
And if I'm permitted a quick diversion at this juncture, I think all cardiac survivors should become the rallying force behind somehow enacting February; as Caregiver's Month, if it hasn't already been suggested. Where would we be today, without them?
Anyway, as one news junkie to another; welcome back, Mike. Pick your stress, good health and may there be many more scrums for you to report in 2007. And beyond.
Earlier in the month, I caught the tail-end of a Canada AM morning health food segment with nutritionist Leslie Beck and the always jovial Mike Duffy, from his home in Ottawa. Silly me, should have connected the heart dots, right away. Truthfully, I must have been the only viewer in Canada, who didn't know that Duffy is also a recent recovering cardiac grad.
The Charlottetown-born political journalist and star of CTV Newsnet's Mike Duffy Live, is now back pounding the Ottawa political scene once more, after a five month hiatus. About time, too. It's good to see him once more filling the screen -- albeit a little less so, these days -- as if he had only taken a few days off, to holiday back at his beloved Prince Edward Island.
What struck me most, from a weekend follow-up article by Sarah Hampton in the Globe & Mail, was a similar snakes-and-ladder road map he encountered, as I did, in our respective recovery phase.
The last thing either one of us needed with similar Type-A work habits, were periods of memory loss in the early recovery weeks following surgery. I thought I was alone in this unmapped mine field. Happily, not so, if that's the right way for me to report it.
As ageing boomers of a certain composition, I suspect we'll both be weight-challenged for a while longer, too. Well, me anyway, at this rate. I'm currently stalled at minus-nine on the scales, with good intentions. For the uninformed, that's a nine pound weight loss since The-Day. Mike's currently at about minus-forty, and still climbing in the right direction. At this rapid pace, he'll soon be fading out like background music. Good on 'im! I've no doubt, his trusty RN wife and caregiver, has him on a short lunch-leash.
And if I'm permitted a quick diversion at this juncture, I think all cardiac survivors should become the rallying force behind somehow enacting February; as Caregiver's Month, if it hasn't already been suggested. Where would we be today, without them?
Anyway, as one news junkie to another; welcome back, Mike. Pick your stress, good health and may there be many more scrums for you to report in 2007. And beyond.
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