Michael

This is my brother Michael last year on his 50th. birthday. We aren't even a year apart in age; I was born just 360 days after him. As we were growing up, people thought we were twins since we looked so much alike except I was taller than him during grade school. A fact that he still gets teased about.

Saturday night he had a heart attack. He had pain that kept escalating and my sis-in-law Tracy tried to get him to the hospital, but the pain got so bad, she had to stop at a fire station. The paramedics stabalized Michael and then transported him to the ER where he was almost immediately taken into surgery for an angioplasty. Both sides were blocked but the surgeons felt he was too unstable at the time to unblock the other side. He is in ICU, not allowed to move or talk.

The latest news is that he is still very critical but is doing a little better this evening. If all goes well, he will move into a regular room in three or four days and then will be able to go home within a week. He is scheduled for the second angioplasty in four weeks.

Michael quit smoking a few years ago, doesn't drink, eats healthy, takes care of himself and had a serious heart attack at age 51. One question he asked today was, "Why me?"