Salon.com Books | Dear Mr. Blue

Search About Salon Table Talk Advertise in Salon Investor Relations


	Search All of Salon.com Only Books Directory Hot Topics Book Reviews Garrison Keillor J.R.R. Tolkien Harry Potter Dave Eggers Articles by date All of Salon.com By department



	Arts & Entertainment - The Movie Page Books Comics Life News People Politics Sex Tech & Business - Free Software Project Audio Letters Columnists Corrections Salon Premium - Downloads Salon Plus Salon Gear Personals



	Table Talk [Free, spirited Salon forums] Are you gearing up for the new "Harry Potter" movie? What's your mystery fix? Posts of the week The Well [Pioneering members-only discussions] How can we best care for our parents as they age? Sound Off E-mail Salon Send us a Letter to the Editor Today's letters


	Downloads Get Salon.com on your PDA

Garrison Keillor
Dear Mr. Blue
Our intrepid advice columnist prepares for open-heart surgery.

- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Garrison Keillor

July 31, 2001 | Mr. Blue is not filing today, due to a medical adventure that came up suddenly last week. He paid a visit to a cardiologist and learned more about the heart than he was hoping to know and the upshot is a heart operation to repair a leaky mitral valve problem. Forty years ago, a man would've been sent home to endure the problem for the few years until nature mercifully killed him off -- the breathlessness and fatigue and pounding heart and the alarming feeling in the middle of the night that one is about to suffocate. Now, thanks to generations of enterprising research and the bravery of cutting-edge patients, the open-heart operation is performed with great confidence of success. I will return when I return. Have a lovely August.

salon.com

- - - - - - - - - - - -

About the writer
Garrison Keillor is the creator and host of the nationally syndicated radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," broadcast on more than 400 public radio stations nationwide. For more columns by Keillor, visit his column archive.

Sound Off
Send us a Letter to the Editor

Salon.com >> Books












	Current Stories History is bunk after all Much of what we're taught has been twisted to suit someone's needs By Laura Miller How blogs changed everything As old media struggles for relevance, the once-maligned blogosphere proves it's as transformative as the telephone By Scott Rosenberg The un-American way of life A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong By Andrew O'Hehir Gay men go to hell "God Says No" author James Hannaham talks about religious repression, life in the closet -- and sex in the bathroom By Sarah Hepola

Maya Angelou reads from "The Heart of a Woman"

Salon Search About Salon Table Talk Advertise in Salon Investor Relations

Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited
Copyright 2005 Salon.com

Salon, 22 4th Street, 16th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone 415 645-9200 | Fax 415 645-9204
E-mail | Salon.com Privacy Policy | Terms of Service

If you are ONLY seeing this and the footer of the page, we believe you are running a Norton/Symantec product which is causing this to happen. Please go to this help page and allow our URL (salon.com)