Category: Excerpts: Tips of Spears
-
Excerpt: Basketball & Heart Surgery
And that’s my life, that’s my chessboard. An old playground, made up from, and used up by… a lot of souls that have their own shots to make, and their own goals to defend. A metaphor for my life in the future I guess, a lot of unmet challenges with unnamed players and unfamiliar playing…
-
Excerpt: A Foward from LVAD 1
It is ironic that Frank calls me a hero, where he and all perfusionists are the real heroes… perhaps we all are heroes, the way a Bull Rider straps to a bull and completes his or her 8 second ride.
-
Excerpt: Epiphany
My immediate mission was to go from nursing station to nursing station, on all four hospital floors, pick up their trash, and shove it down an old garbage/linen chute, and later go to the sub-basement and burn it all in a furnace room that looked like the gateway to hell. It probably did have “Dante”…
-
We Are Growing !
Not too bad.. 67 Countries and counting. We are establishing a very good sized readership. The book shall be released this Summer 2025- Thankyou for your encouraging words and support- Frank
-
Excerpt- “Let’s go on Sucker Bypass!”
A shower of betadine hits the patient’s chest like a like a firemen’s bucket parade- dousing a fire, surgical drapes are thrown down, lines are passed off and divided, chest or femoral incisions are made, patient is heparinized and when that ACT hits 350 seconds? We are going on bypass Baybee!
-
Excerpt: TipsOfSpears: Epiphany
Editor’s Note: A casual preview of the upcoming book: The Tips Of Spears Epiphany As a junior in High School, I needed to find a way to make money, as it wasn’t going to be coming from an allowance or stipend from my mom or dad. Being in a university town, that prospect wasn’t going…
-
Perfusion Art: A COMET’s Tale
Perfusion Art: “A COMET’s Tale” Photographer: Frank Aprile, CCP, BBA, LP Equipment: IPhone 13+ Editing: Photoshop, Correll Paintshop Narrative: Hostile Environment V Patient Abandonment Time & Place: 2023- Somewhere West of the Nova Scotia Deluge About The Artist: CCP Commentary: Looks Bleak TBH 🙂 ___________________________________
The Tips of Spears... 