You don't smoke, your cholesterol level is normal, your blood pressure is normal; your only heart attack risk factors are you are male and over 50. -- Doctor

Well I can't do much about that! -- Eric Lindsay

I expect you both to outlast me and provide me with great role models for graceful ageing. -- Alyson Abramowitz

Try and think of this as an extended Christmas vacation, except that the bad heartburn come - before - the big Christmas dinner. -- Bruce D Arthurs

... _try _ not to flap your arms too vigorously as you fly back and forth across the Pacific, OK. -- David Bratman

Tell Eric to get hopping on that trip report! -- William Breiding

Eric seems the last person to get a heart attack - skinny and healthy and not smoking, You'd think it would be someone overweight like me... Hope it wasn't all that running around at Comdex that triggered it (and those cholesterol filled buffets!) -- Linda Bushyager

I have been a member in good standing (of the community of heart attack survivors) for about 12 years, and with very few changes in habits. -- Don Carter

If (Eric) fails to pay attention to you and his doctors, I will kick his skinny little ass with a smile on my face and a song in my heart. -- Al Curry

You're about the last person I would have expected to be hit with a heart attack! -- Moshe Feder

Tell Eric he is not allowed to get any sicker or else! Besides, I'm expecting him to pick up the first shout when I get over in '99. -- jan howard finder

Tell him to suffer in silence and not bitch & moan to you all the time so as to make you miserable. -- jan howard finder

Remind Eric, that if he doesn't behave, he can't make life miserable for everyone associated with Aussiecon Three. -- jan howard finder

I got a Palm Pilot and am now glad I didn't get a Psion, just in case that turns out that it was the cause of his heart attack. -- D Gary Grady

Jet lag with a vengeance... Wish I could be there to play Scrabble with him and make sure he hides his broccoli under the plate. -- Joe Haldeman

"But he was just in the USA and he looked fine" (fans at SMOFcon). Was the stress of travelling the culprit? -- Teddy Harvia

I've been praying for his recovery, whether he likes it or not. -- Marty Helgesen

"Well if anyone can get Eric to take (Doctor's) order it's Jean" (Seattle fans) - Marilyn Holt

I'm vastly cheered Eric is no longer a drip. Wait. Isn't that what you said? - Lucy Huntzinger

This isn't the first time a fan has made a cheap bid for attention, but don't you think you are over-doing it? This is a warning that no further heart attacks will be countenanced, so better make sure that there is no repetition. -- Arnie Katz

I've been feeling miserable over too many deaths of people I know this year, so it's very welcome to have good news of Eric so soon after the alarming report. -- Dave Langford

Is this what I have to look forward to when I turn 50? -- Lan Laskowski (49)

I was more than a little distressed when you mentioned Eric had none of the risk factors, aside from being male and over 50. That's me - except I'm not quite 50 - and here I have been thinking I at least didn't have to worry about premature heart attacks. -- Eric Mayer

No, no, no! It's the Guests who are supposed to die before Aussiecon Three, not the Board. --- Cheryl Morgan

People younger than me have G*O*T to stop doing things like this...! "... and over 50." Right! 10 MONTHS over 50! His credentials as an Old Coot (or something similar) are tenuous at best. -- Bruce Pelz

... tell him to stop chasing so many girls (or to chase them at slower speeds). --Mike Resnick

I would never want to accuse you of malingering ... but just how long does it take to recover from a fart attack? -- Mike Resnick

I should have known that having to carry around an extra 10 kg of Windows NT documentation was not the greatest thing for your health. Of course, it was your mental health I was thinking about ...:-) -- Alan Rosenthal & Janice Murray

I just heard that Nick Stathopolis had had a heart attack this summer. Is there something wrong with Sydney water? -- Dick Smith

Slow down, smell the roses (do they grow in Australia?) and reread all my great writing. (That should occupy all of 15 minutes.) -- Joyce Katz

Tell Eric to not try to organise the hospital on sounder operational procedures. -- Pauline Dickinson

Tell him not to wear the hip flask in his pocket when they are doing tests. It can fuck up the readings on the machines. -- Terry Frost

Tell him to keep his pecker up - ooer, that sounds rude - and his ticker ticking. Gunny and KPG

These days the survival rate from a heart attack, once recognised and treated, is almost 100%. Medical science can do things thereinafter to prevent further trouble that were only dreamt of a decade ago. -- Craig Hilton

They were going to have another patient at the hospital in the drug trial. But he had a shower and died before they could start the trial. -- Eric Lindsay

... he was the last person I thought would have a heart attack!!! -- Richard (now worried) Hryckiewicz

I'm not quite ready yet to deal with that stage of adult life, where the body starts to remind us of all the things we _ should _ have been doing for the last twenty years. -- Geoff Jagoe

Marc and I ... came to the conclusion that of all the fans we could think of Eric seemed the least likely - we said, patting our stomachs. -- Perry Middlemiss

A bloke in a user group was telling us he'd had to have cardiac tests. Two days later he was in hospital having a bypass operation. Thinking of stress factors, I've always felt your work was a source of stress. Or is it all just grumbling! -- John Newman

Tell the silly bugger to slow down. (We're not thirty anymore - none of us ...) -- Marc Ortlieb

Have a recovery-led new year -- Lucy Sussex