Thanks to everyone for their prayers and well-wishes over the last three weeks

Thank you everyone who said a prayer, made a phone call or sent me an e-mail over the last three weeks. I deeply appreciate it. Fresh from the operating suite at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver where Dr. John Yeung-Lai-Wah installed a defibrillator in my chest on Thursday morning. The device will shock my heart the next time it goes wonky. Chris Willamson Rooney photo

By David F. Rooney

Thank you everyone who said a prayer, made a phone call or sent me an e-mail over the last three weeks. I deeply appreciate it. After three weeks at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, I have finally recovered from my multiple-organ failure with the insertion of a defibrillator in my chest.

That device will, essentially, kickstart my heart should it fail again.

I am a lucky man. When my heart failed on May 13, so did my kidneys and liver. I could have died and, I think, 10 or 15 year ago I surely would have been a goner. I am glad to be alive and especially glad to be here in BC. There have been plenty of health-care horror stories over the last several years in this province and elsewhere but I have have never lacked for the proper health care and I am happy to say “Thank you” to our doctors, nurses and health-care administrators.

I am being kicked free on Friday, June 1, and will be back in Revelstoke that evening.

I truly look forward to seeing all of my friends and acquaintances over the next week or so and I most especially want to say thanks to all who sent me messages of hope and good wishes over the last three weeks.

Most of all, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Leslie Savage, Laura Stovel, John Devitt, Keri Knapp and Sue Leach for all they did to ensure The Current continued to appear durign my absence. I don’t think I have forgotten anyone, but if I have, please excuse me.

See you soon!