Healthy Happy Heart

Normally a picture or a photo catches my attention, and I write a poem as the image  “talks” to me. Sometimes I’ll pick an historic event or person as the subject of my poems.

This time it was a traumatic event in my life that became the subject of a poem. 

Pumping (Iron) Heart

 

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My body had a traumatic heart event

With sirens screaming, to the ER I went

Before I knew it, I was lying in bed

Hospital gowned, my own clothes I’d shed

Shaving my groin . . .  gotta get rid of the hair!

Hummm, when did my heart move down there?

Later on as I came to, “You’re in luck,” I was assured, 

“A stent fixed the area where the problem occurred.”

Alas, my joy and elation would not last long

Some things with my heart still were wrong

Open heart surgery was the phrase they used

Frankly, this “ole boy” was not very enthused

A month later ….. Hi ho, hi ho, off to surgery I went

Scared, but no turning back, I’d given my consent.

Tests had foretold that my heart was not well

So they split my chest open like an old clam shell!

A bad valve was replaced with one from a swine

Except for the “oink”, everything’s working fine

Four bypasses were needed as part of the cure

Then they threw in a pacemaker, just to be sure

Recovery went okay but the days sure went slow

But soon this scary event mellowed like an old banjo

And, so it seems, they’ve reset my life’s hourglass

It feels so good to be on the “Green Side of Grass”

                                               Poem by Herm Meyer

 

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