Giovanni's

Finding a good "Chicago" pizza in Chicago can be challenging; it's completely hopeless in Albuquerque. But we keep going to Giovanni's.

The photos remind us of Vincent Distasio's paintings. 

And the pizza's so good we can polish off an eighteen-incher (almost calorie-less with nothing but tomatoes, onions and garlic, no cheese, and the thinnest wisp of bread).

Well-fed

Pizza & Cardiology Today

I rarely eat it. But it's a staple for she who says, "I'm a cook in name only."

Now in Albuquerque, I'm scheduled for a phone consult on Monday, the 20th, at 3:00 with Dr. Jose Mendez. He's a cardiologist, not on the faculty (at the University of New Mexico Hospital), who works all over the country, maybe even the world, and, according to the nurse I spoke with, is highly-regarded. She thought his specialty was heart failure, but encouraged me to google him.

I'm going to ask about stem-cell injections, something someone mentioned, and ask all the questions Jim Cooper suggested (Jim was kind enough to send a list) AND see if there are any other pain medications that might help. AND....see what he has to say about the life-expectancy statistics with or without bypass surgery. From what I've read and from what Jim said, bypass surgery relieves symptoms thereby providing the opportunity for a more active (sex!) lifestyle. But it doesn't increase life-expectancy. Three weeks later my arm STILL hurts from the angiogram (transradial catheterization)....NOTHING compared to what happens in bypass surgery.