Sorry I wasn't blogging yesterday

I had to go to hospital overnight for a procedure. But, they don't let you sleep in the hospital and are waking you up every 1/2 hour to hour so now I'm having to catch up from losing a nights sleep.

It's amazing the kinds of technology they have in hospitals now. I first notice the extreme change in hospitals from what I was used to growing up in 1998 when I had an angiogram at Stanford Hospital on the Stanford University Campus then. They snaked up an angiogram through a little camera up my femoral artery and told me I had the cleanest arteries and veins of any 50 year old they had ever seen. But, this was because I had been raised a lacto ovo vegetarian and had never eaten meat of any kind the first 32 years of my life from when I was born before 1950 until 1980. This was the first time I realized how quickly the medical science technology was all changing rather quickly. I first called this like "Being whisked up into a UFO".

This was even more extreme when I had a laparoscopic surgery at the Hospital in Mt. Shasta for a burst appendix. This was even more like going into a room where I felt like I had been abducted and then put unconscious while they pumped my abdomen up with CO2 and sent in cameras and tools into my abdomen. Unfortunately, this operation also gave me a hernia I still am living with just to the right of my belly button where my intestines now go out past my stomach muscles most of the time.

Yesterday was the third time I experience this "UFO technology" in receiving a special kind of pacemaker which stabilized my heart. My wife's bio-Mom is 90 years old and mentally clear as a bell still because her pacemaker keeps the blood in her brain even at 90 and keeps her as sharp as ever. I was watching how stabilized my heart beats are now which is really amazing on the monitor in my hospital room at about 2 AM last night.

I think many of us might start living to 90 or 100 or more with all mental and physical faculties intact so I think we might see in our lifetimes people still alive and mentally and physically functioning well at 150 to 200 years old this century. And after this century I think the next capacity will be around 500 years life expectancy. However, psychologically and physically we must prepare ourselves for this if we want to reach that far in one lifetime.

By God's Grace