[Heeplist] Pre-Ordered Heep limited edition

[Bob Winward]

Tony, thank you for sharing.  I know there are many on the list who have or had struggles, work, health, family.  Yes through it all we all have a common bond of friendship and love for Uriah Heep music!  You’re isn inspiration!

Tough times never last but tough people do! I have always said that no man’s life is devoid of problems,  his character is honed by how he handles them!

Bob Winward

> On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:41 PM, Kevin Milanowski <11scorpio06 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've never met you on the list Tony but I've been on for quite a while my
> name is Kevin I'm glad you got your health issues straightened out and I
> pray for you in the future God bless and take good care of yourself
> 
>> On Jan 12, 2018 5:11 PM, "Tony Bryson" <T_Bryson at msn.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I pre-ordered the signed limited-edition vinyl and the CD. I wish it were
>> in the cards to see one of the shows, but nothing really close enough for a
>> day trip. I would love to see some of you guys, especially since I missed
>> Ron's wedding. I've try to keep up with the list, even though I have not
>> posted for a while.
>> 
>> 2017 was a little challenging to say the least, health and career wise.
>> Last year started with an elimination of my position March 1st with the
>> company I worked for 18 years and them exercising the non-compete clause,
>> effectively taking me out of market for my career for what I have done for
>> 25 years for at least 18 months. Still I figured I was resourceful and at
>> 62 started working on a plan. Then in the middle of the process, in May,
>> one of my sons noticed I was having some type of issue and made me check my
>> blood pressure, which showed my pulse rate which was showing 170 to 175. He
>> and my wife made me go to the ER. I had had episodes late at night a few
>> times before over the previous months, took aspirin and went to sleep
>> because I didn't want to alarm my wife in the middle of the night, woke up
>> in the morning and was fine. The right side of my heart was doing 320 bpm
>> on the top and 170 on the bottom, so the BP device only showed the 170, and
>> was having what is called atrial flutter.
>> 
>> Ended up in the ER 3 times between May and the end of August with them
>> shocking my heart back to rhythm twice since meds couldn't control it. The
>> last time I developed a-fib on the lefts side of the heart, as well as the
>> flutter. There was not a way I could keep going to the ER and find a new
>> career, so decided to have two different procedures on my heart in October
>> I've stayed busy helping my son some with the studio business while
>> recuperating. Now after a few months of recovery, I seem to be out of the
>> woods except for some minor residual issues and am looking forward to a
>> better 2018. Luckily, I kept my health insurance through cobra last year
>> even though it was way too much and had a really high deductible, as the
>> total bills for the heart issues paid by insurance were hundreds of
>> thousands of dollars for last year. Still this puts us out of traveling for
>> concerts for now unless something radically changes. Should have made one
>> of my sons be a cardiac doctor so I could retire.
>> 
>> I don't write this to garner anything from anyone, only to warn my friends
>> that you should make sure to take care of yourself and not be stubborn,
>> especially since many of us are older and getting more stubborn. If you are
>> not on blood thinners and have weird feelings around your heart, take
>> aspirin if you are allowed, follow-up immediately, better safe than not. I
>> had tests prior to all of this that were normal and it caused me to not do
>> anything when the issues started. Doctor said I was lucky I didn't develop
>> a clot one of the previous multiple times I had the issues, and never wake
>> up, especially with my history of high red blood cell count, and father's
>> multiple issues who died at 46 from a stroke. He said taking multiple
>> aspirins each time may have been a life saver, who knows. Things could have
>> turned out a lot worse, God had to have been watching over me.
>> 
>> I see so many with much greater problems and challenges than I have, and I
>> count my blessings in friends and family every day. Luckily, I have 4 great
>> sons, and a fantastic wife who has made sure I followed the doctor's
>> orders. She is one of God's angels in more ways than one putting up with me.
>> 
>> I hope one of you get to do a Pledge Music to play on stage with them,
>> would love to see a video of one of you guys with them.
>> 
>> Have a blessed year, Keep on Heep'in
>> Tony
>> 
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