Laughter is precious.
Exercise is even better.
He and his compatriots work out three times a week at St. Luke's Hospital East, which has Northern Kentucky's oldest cardiac rehabilitation program. It offers exercise and diet classes to people recovering from bypass surgery, chest pain and heart attacks. At any time, about 300 patients from age 30 and up are enrolled. Many were smokers who exercised little and stressed out a lot. Now they hit the hospital's treadmills, free weights and rowing machines with missionary determination, while nurses scurry around checking blood pressure and giving encouragement.