Sodawax

This is in a bit of responce to Allan´s Weblog, I Am Rich #2

My pops had heart surgery a couple years ago and had to have is aortic valve replaced. This valve is what pumps blood in and out of the heart. Basically it stoped working and just pumped blood in but not out. So his heart grew to the size of a softball. The doctors believed that the valve hadn't been working for about 10 years and slowly had been failing for about 20-25 years. It also is hereditary. My great grandfather was the first ever to have this same operation and many of the men on that side of the family died of heart attacks, possibly do to this problem. So, there's a good chance for this to happen to me. Anway, since my dads surgery, his blood does strange things and he has to take all kinds of medication to keep his blood thin and pressure low etc. Because the valve is a fake one, although works well, it's not like the natural human valve. Anyway, about a couple weeks ago, while on a checkup, the doctor noticed something strange with his blood. Something about a high count of blood cells or something. I'm not too good with this doctor stuff. It is very common for the blood to be this way when one has cancer and his doctor became very worried. He set up an appointment with a cancer specialist a couple weeks ago. Then, they were'nt fully sure if he had cancer or not, nothing showed up which was a good sign, but he still had to wait 2 weeks to get the results. So in that time, our brains have been in massive wait mode and in preyer that he didn't have cnacer. Yeserday the results came in and was all clear. He has no cancer and that the certain blood count just has to do with his heart compilations and is nothing to worry about. So it was a huge sigh of relief to get this news from my dad lastnight. I worry about him and love him very much and hopefully, even though he has the heart problem, he'll still can live a long life. The valve is said to work about 120 years, and doctors say that if he sticks to his meds, he should live a full life.