[Heeplist] Pre-Ordered Heep limited edition

Tony Bryson T_Bryson at msn.com
Sat Jan 13 11:56:58 EST 2018 

Bob
Thanks Bob, you are right, it is the failures, obstacles and challenges that make a person who they are. It is life lessons in remembering there are more important things in life than we acknowledge during our day to day life. The latest events in my life are small compared to many others, and there are always people with more challenges and without the opportunity we have. 

Thanks
Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] On Behalf Of Bob Winward
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 11:32 PM
To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time) <heeplist at travellersintime.com>
Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Pre-Ordered Heep limited edition

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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