Now, I think, I'm properly scared

I've been telling people I have a false sense of security about my heart attack Thanksgiving eve. I recognized the symptoms right away and was whisked to the E.R. by qtrhorserider. So I was only in pain for about an hour before the morphine and the nitroglycerin took effect. Intellectully I know I had a surgical procedure, and need to be careful about diet and exercise From Now On; I've been taking my meds, watching my sodium, fat and cholesterol, and yesterday I went and registered at the cardio rehab center where I'll be going to exercise Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for many weeks. But on an emotional level all I've been feeling is that I've had a nice vacation but it's time to get things back to normal.

One of the meds I've been prescribed isn't for everyday, it's a nitroglycerin pill for if I have pain again. Nitro opens up your blood vessels, which stops the pain because it stops the cause of the pain. About 3:30 this morning - about two hours ago - I woke up, or was already awake, I don't remember; and I was having chest pain, again, and my left arm felt numb, again. I poked qtrhorserider to bring me my nitro pills.

After the first one, the pain went away but my arm still felt funny. The directions I was given with the nitro pills differ from doctor to doctor to nurse to nurse: either you're supposed to take a nitro pill, and take another and go to the E.R. if the pain doesn't go away in five minutes, up to three pills; or, you're only supposed to go to the E.R. if the pain doesn't go away after three pills. I had my pain go away after the first pill, which presumably means any blood vessel issue cleared up - but I had to take a second pill anyway in order to make my arm feel better. I'll report all this when I go into the rehab center in an hour or so.

But now, I think, I'm properly scared.

Manually created Twitter mirror post 12/5

• Getting pretty psyched for the 12/15 return of proper AKOTAS from sketch hiatus which, at this rate, I'll actually draw within a few days
• @spastasmagoria I'm tempted to join Tumblr today just to write my own response to that gailsimone post.
• But first I'd have to decide on a login name, so maybe not.
• If I were on my own, except for that in principle I like to have hot food once a day, I think I'd survive on commercial breakfast foods.
• You realize, of course, that I'd update 3Faces more often if I didn't feel generic observational gags ought to be saved for my daily.
• @ferretthimself Not Flutie! Snyder!
• @stoplookingup That algorithm used to be for porn star name. (Before you ask, Misty Pilgrim.)
• @RedneckGaijin @Omorka @jennpozner "You Have To Be Carefully Taught". Left out of the original staging so as not to offend the bigots.
• @Omorka I was Captain Brackett in high school!
• @demiurgent There are four lights!
• The problem with SOPA is that applies the legal principles currently governing the banking industry to the internet.
• #AKOTAS sketch: stalemate. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2756.htm #webcomics #kingarthur