Collateral Circulation
I am reading the book SET LIST: a novel by Raymond L.
Atkins. It is mostly about a bunch of
young men with a common like for Rock music and an insane mother and maybe the
daddy too.
Yesterday I read that the protagonist had heart
troubles. His artery was blocked. Nature saved his life. Nature built a series of blood vessels to
carry the blood over the blockage. The
cardiologist in the book called it Collateral Circulation. He added the protagonist was lucky to be
alive.
I had a similar series of blood vessels creating a bridge over
a blockage. My cardiologist did not call it Collateral
Circulation. But he explained the blood
veins rerouting my blood stream than shook my hand and said, “Nice doing
business with you.” That was probably more
than 30 years ago.
I felt lucky too.
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