Good morning EXers. I’m hoping that all of you have a great smoke free day. I’m going into surgery in about an hour from now for the ablasion on my heart . At least I will be able to sleep for awhile. I tossed and turned all night. I’m fed up with all these surgeries. Pops with 182 DOF
((((Pops)))) oh no...your mom just died and now you are having surgery...Bless your Heart...I am lifting you in prayer that all goes well in surgery and you get well soon...keep us posted...God bless you...~ Colleen 450 DOF
Well, I’m out of surgery now. It took two hours and forty five minutes. They thought it would be an hour. My BP #s are great! 113/74, pulse of 63 bpm!!! I’m already feeling relief of pressure in my chest cavity.
Im really looking forward to some food . I will check back in later. Thanks for all of the well wishes. No pain whatsoever either. I was awake for the entire procedure. Can you believe it? Amazing what modern medicine can do these days. pops with 182 DOF. Woo hoo
Late getting online today, Pops, so just following the post on your cardiac ablation surgery. So happy all went well and that your're awake and alert and pain-free!! Keep us posted as you are able~
Yeppers, Pops is doing fine here at home now...the boys haven't come up to me and started purring yet...but I guarantee you that around 6:00 (dinner hour,,) they are both going to be hanging on me like there's no tomorrow...
Hi, and thanks for stopping by to read my page....My name is Ken Bishop...aka, Pops. I am a stubborn older addict of nicotine....I have quit on numerous occasions in the past, and have experienced great rewards as a direct result of not ingesting deadly toxins into my bloodstream. One of the curses of having a strong constitution that seems to be able to withstand much more than others can...is this...my body would still be able to move around, and get things accomplished even after I was poisoned by the harmful effects of nicotine addiction. Eventually, the harm became so significant, that not even I, with all of my denial...could avoid the truth that to continue to smoke, would most assuredly be the death of me, and in short order as well. On Sept 1st, of 2018...I found myself in a rehab facility for alcohol abuse, and came very near death. I quit messing around, and had a deep and moving spiritual encounter, and have remained sober without one single urge to pick up a drink since. That was after consuming copious amounts of booze for many years in the past. After a short while.. I asked for spiritual help from my creator to make it possible for me to get the same amount of conviction towards finally being able to successfully put down nicotine once and for all...As of....(September 14th, 2019)...I have 17 days of living smokefree! Woo Hoo!!! Friends and family are all very proud and happy for me. They have asked me what I thought was the turning point, after having experienced so many failed attempts before. I simply reply, "I took the God Shot".
xoxoxo Pops
update: in Dec of 19 when the stock market started going nuts...I used that as an excuse to start smoking again. I see-sawed back and forth for severa months, and when the COVID crisis hit, I simply lost all desire to be smokefree...I was going to smoke & that was final. Well, as always...the pains of excessive injestion of nicotine into my blood stream...(one puff is all it takes) started affecting my everyday life again...I knew I had to quit placating my inner child and grow up and accept a life without nicotine. The normal person would read this and say well duh...finally he's getting it. But the normally addicted nicotine addict would understand...weird huh? So now I'm back with a new quit date of July 8th, 2020 & am hoping that I can accept that as a perfect quit date that does not need to be changed. Thanks for reading and good luck to you in your quit journey. Pops w 4 DOF!
. At least I will be able to sleep 
for awhile. I tossed and turned all night. I’m fed up with all these surgeries. 
