When I first began blogging on
October 17, 2012 I had no Idea how if I could consistently hold enthusiasm in
providing for writing about what I see, observe and think concerning aviation.
I had to quickly narrow the subject towards something regional as well as worldwide.
Since I had some aviation interest in both World War II aircraft and Lockheed's
SR-71 project through my Uncle's experience in both worlds of war and
technology, I began a Boeing focus and vowed that I would write and support
this endeavor more specifically the 787 project. Additionally, I took on all
technology advancements coming from Boeing as fair game.
This was
a self-imposed writing assignment. I had a massive heart attack on June 1, 2011
at work. I was pronounced dead by all the attending emergency room doctors at
about 4:30 PM that day. My wife was called to my gurney side and she touched my
feet as it to say a final goodbye. A miracle happened for those who still have
a belief in miracles. It happened, after shutting off life support, ceasing
CPR, and breathing; and stopping electrical heart shocks, with the cessation of
adrenaline shots.
They pronounced me finally dead. The team was tired from two
hours of resuscitation and sweaty hard work to save me. My wife came to
me after the report was written up and she grab my feet as one last effort to
say good bye. The last wires were still connected to my chest and then to the
EKG monitor. The nurse hadn't finished cleaning up the room. Then it happened,
"Beep" and more faint beeps. My wife holding my feet experienced the
miracle. One nurse snapped her head at the monitor and started a panic rush and
called back the team in a rescue attempt. They kept the heart going. I was
stabilized with a steady heart beat after the death call was made earlier.
As in all
cases where oxygen is starved from the Brain, I suffered anoxic brain injury.
The heart specialist who had seen thousands of heart attacks, by-passes and stents told my wife, I wouldn't make it. They went in with scopes and examine
my heart to see what happened. The doctor reassured my family I would really
die. But I didn't. Then the Brain doctor came in and said, pack me in
"Ice". He needs protection from being off oxygen when he was declared
dead. His brain is swelling.
My Cardiologist, who consulted with the
neurologist, agreed on the temperature reduction for the brain. He came out to
talk to my wife about the big chill effort. He told her I wouldn't last, and
will die, but this is a last ditch effort to saved anything for "Me".
I survived and recovered from the brain injury. My Cardiologist then
"resigned" (actually quite his practice that day), and said I was his
last patient after saying three times I was dead, I would die, or this is the
last ditch effort to save him. After my indomitable core driven spirit took
over, I made it to this very day in 2014. He (My ex cardiologist) is finishing
Law School I presume.
Part of
my recovery and rehab was to bring back my mental faculties. I awaken after 17
days not knowing what had just occurred. I thought I was still at work. Then it
was explained, what happened to me. I had to go to rehab in order for my mental
processes could establish. The long therapy road began. My memory was disrupted
and in some cases gone. But during the rehab process, I was assigned a writing
work in the winter of 2012. This would improve my cognizance, if I did that. I
played the mental card games given me during the winter, and then started
looking for a theme to blog about, which is in my main interest, is "aviation".
I have
written all blogs myself and have inserted actual news and web articles, as I
am limited on travel and research so you may see a steady improvement on
writing and composition. It is a progression and goal for me to obtain mental
parity in our world. I appreciate your reading my opinion, and insight after
much research on the topic of aviation. I have multiple experiences that
luckily have retained in my long term memories, where short term stuff can slid
off the table on a given day. This blog is about everything I run into doing
online research with Boeing. For better or worse I chose Boeing as the topic,
and have become a writing advocate in hopes of making people think about what I
write from research, observation and life’s knowledge.
On
October 17th I wrote a test blog line to see it would work. It Did.
By the
way' This is the 200th posting in 2014 and 423 over-all posting since October
17, 2012
Below is
my first Blog Link in October of 2012.
All things 787: Boeing gets a break in the weather, send
up 3 787s for flight tests Announcement OF
BA 787 Start Of Construction
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