A week's trip to Barbados for recuperation was canceled. He has work to do. Four months after nearly dying, he's off to England to continue work on a second edition of his Oxford Thesaurus and a historical nautical dictionary. I feel fine. Clinically It's small, about the size of a person's fist.
Blood sustains life because it carries essential oxygen to the body's cells.
But it's more often the heart, not the blood, that has captured our imagination. The heart represents not only a fabulous pump made of muscle, but the very essence of a human being. For the heart to fail is no small matter. More hearts are failing than ever before Heart failure is the only cardiac problem on the increase. Coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and stroke are all in decline.