Good News for Merrie!

Quote of the day:
“Perhaps the most important thing that technology does is free the listener to participate in ways that in all previous periods of listening were governed by the performer.”
--Glenn Gould, pianist

Last week Merrie had an echo-cardiogram. It’s a sort of sonogram of the heart, showing how the heart is functioning. She spent the weekend waiting for the results, hoping that things hadn’t gotten worse.

Yesterday she got a call from the nurse practitioner in the cardiology department. She said that the pumping function of her heart is very strong. This was good news.

Even better was her evaluation of the condition of the mitral valve. In the hospital the damage there was characterized as “moderate-to-severe.” After examining the echo-cardiogram, the nurse practitioner said that the damage was actually “mild-to-moderate.”

We are very pleased but trying to restrain ourselves. The consultation with the cardiologist is coming soon. We’ll see what he has to say.