To friends who have asked aboout Jeff’s cardiac catheterization: it was yesterday, and all is well. There was no blockage requiring angioplasty or stints, and he’s happy to have the information (though he’s walking a little slowly today). I got to see the video loop of the veins branching like tree roots around his pumping heart. Glad the movie had a happy ending.

Jeff gets really funny under stress and was a regular stand-up comedian at the hospital yesterday. At one point I bumped his IV stand with my bookbag and he went into a dramatic sudden-death scene, much to the amusement of the nurses…

Many thanks to my friend who came over and spent the day with my kids…