• One Lucky Fisherman’s Heart

    I had been feeling listless and napping for many months. I thought it was because of my type two diabetes and because I was getting older; and then I ran into three separate walls of angina. The most worrisome occurred while wading across an estuarial river in Maine on my way to  fly fish the surf for striped bass where I felt paralyzed midstream and almost swept away  and barely made it across but after a few minutes rest, I made it and then on across the quarter mile of sands to the surf where I hooked a striped bass of 40 inches or more and in the brief fight before spitting the hook I learned that the tug truly is a drug. If I could no longer cross the river then no more fishing for me and that was unacceptable so the day I returned to Key Largo I talked to my ARVN Jami Horvat at Advanced Primary Care where she made me submit to an EKG exam on Tuesday the 16th of July. The irregularities in my EKG had her refer me to adjacent cardiologists Drs. Bruce Boros & Richard Berger and where ARPN Taylor Menendez sent me…