I brought Ed home from the hospital on Tuesday. He micromanaged my driving and drove me nuts. I also scraped the car driving in a blind thunderstorm the night before, and knocking over a street barrier I couldn’t see.

On Wednesday morning, I was feeling rather good about the fact that Ed’s cardiologist said he could fix him with stents instead of recommending open heart surgery. He did two stents on Monday and two more on Tuesday and thought the first site looked so good that he didn’t go in on the other side but used the same one as before. So Ed started bleeding Wednesday and we had to call the EMTs and they took him back to the hospital. He went in the ambulance without clothes, so I gathered a set and got to the hospital an hour later.

I sat with him for the day. They stabilized the incision, and did an ultrasound and that finally came back okay and we were checked out. I am rather undone.

Since then I have been on the computer looking for heart-healthy recipes and it is a nightmare. You Google a protein – turkey legs, for instance, and get sites that have turkey legs in the title, and click on them and get 50 dessert recipes.

I finally found a turkey leg recipe. I had to omit the salt. Ed said it was “okay” and I ate mine but thought it was godawful.

Meeting the low carb, low salt, low fat standard is going to be tricky. Also, Ed has stopped using the vapor cigarette. Because it has no tar, he had over-done it and the nicotine was adding to his heart problem. He has stopped drinking diet Coke and that is a biggie. I'm sure the doctors told him to stop because of the caffeine, but I know the substitute sugars are deadly as well. Ed did say he might just have a little glass today and I talked him out of it. His usual consumption was 8 2-litre bottles of diet Coke a week. That's a recipe for disaster but I couldn't get him to stop.

I am praying he sticks to the plan.

xx, Teal