This is the next in the series of transcriptions from my journal, written during the sad, wonderful, las year of Dave's life.
And I thought yesterday’s doc appointment would be routine.
Hardly.
Though Dave’s kidney function and indeed every other so far
measured system seems stable, he continues to fail. He lost another
five pounds and is weaker than before. This doc suggested some kind
of heart pump weakness—his heart, which every other doc said worked
strong still—and his EKG’s show that. But it turns out that a
heart’s electrical beat doesn’t measure its ability to pump, or
the efficiency of its valves, or a possible blockage of artery. And
it would make sense of his shifting blood pressures and his general
weakness.
But to think that his heart, that obedient and faithful muscle,
would just slow and tire, then finally just stop—I can’t imagine
such a betrayal. I hear it like a dirge just running out of strength
and quitting.
Everything in me screams, NO.
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