domenica 15 marzo 2020

Milano on Corona-time Preface

The last months of 2019 were very active for both my wife Wally and me.
Wally had been treated for breast cancer 5 years earlier with radiation which cooked some of the blood vessels near her heart.  She was not receiving sufficient blood to her heart.  An attempt to install a stent failed.  She needed bypass surgery.

I got a call from Salzburg to play an old man in Robert Wilson's production of Mozart's version of Handel's Messiah in January for Mozart Week.  I skipped 2 days of rehearsals in December when Wally had her initial surgery.

In early January 2020 I put Oskar with the dog sitter and went to Salzburg January 6 on a night train.  Then I returned after the last performance of January 31 on February 1 on a train through Innsbruck and Verona.

Wally had researched the best heart surgeons and hospitals in the Milan area.  She found a good surgeon who worked at Niguarda, a large hospital complex on the north side of Milan easily accessible by metro then tram.

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