Stenting

There was a nasty lesion of his mid-right coronary. A stent would be required so that the Reaper would not know. It is a piece of steel which takes the place of crumbling walls, which only by the grace of lipids like cholesterol allow a trickle of the juice, sustaining life, to pass. One cuts the femoral, an artery at home in legs, the patient has been medicated with thinning agents to prevent a stroke. Then comes the 'introducer', which is quite similar to what a Dr. Forssmann used back in nineteen-twenty-nine, a wire pushed up from the leg through to the beating heart. Soon it will reach the coronaries, and then, it briefly hovers before the stricture. Puhh! A breath is felt, not heard from all observers as with a gentle flick the stent drives home. A perfect landing, now expanded, there always is applause, and instantly, the region floods with so much blood. The river of his life.