Michael Swanwick reports that:
Howard Waldrop has been admitted to the Seton Medical Center in Austin and is in the ICU.
He was having trouble breathing, which seems to have been pulmonary edema brought on by high blood-pressure. His heart catheterization showed that he has multiple blockages, and some heart damage from a prior heart attack that he didn’t even know he’d had, what they call a “silent heart attack.”
He’s going in for bypass surgery in a couple of days, after they treat a bladder infection and try to get his blood sugar under better control.
Gardner Dozois has spoken with Howard and reports that he was “amazingly cheerful, taking it all as if it was No Big Deal. Muy macho. He’d have made a good masked Mexican wrestler.”
Howard’s bypass surgery is set for Monday.
Thanks isn’t the right word, but Michael Walsh, who is publishing Waldrop’s new collection, told us of the news.