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The Family Radio Community Association Meetings Monthly Schedule

By Robert W. Goldfarb (All meetings held via Zoom and in person.)

Anyone visiting the Bronx apartment in which I grew
up during the thirties and forties would see at once the
place of honor was claimed by a maple box almost as large All meetings will be held electronically via Zoom and in person. The following is our regular schedule of
as a modern refrigerator. monthly meetings, however, sometimes meetings are cancelled or schedules are revised due to holidays, etc. If
A religious person might assume it was an ark or you would like to attend, please call the BPCA office, (561) 395-7551, the day before the meeting to request the
personal shrine. And with reason. Every chair and the Zoom link be emailed to you.
sofa in our living room was angled to look directly at it.
Its glow cast everything surrounding it in shadow. The Access Control & Safety Committee 2nd Thursday of each month at 9:30 a.m.
box was our family radio, and we gathered before it as
though it were an alter from which came our daily portion Architectural Control Site Committee 1st Friday of each month at 9:30 a.m.
of awe, fear and inspiration.
The radio was turned on twice a day, After I finished Board of Directors 3rd Tuesday of each month at 9:30 a.m.
my homework, I would sit alongside its massive speaker,
listening to fifteen-minute episodes of Little Orphan Budget & Finance Committee The Friday before the third Tuesday of
Annie, Jack Armstrong and The Lone Ranger. It then each month at 9:15 a.m.
fell silent until we finished dinner. Turning on the radio
immediately after we ate was a ritual reserved for my
father. Once he saw we were all seated and quiet, he
Comedians like Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Fibber Delray Medical Center
twisted a knob that brought light into our dark apartment.

McGee and Molly and Abbot and Costello would have
so hard our chairs rocked. None of us dared budge as fun Celebrates 250th TCAR for
the four of us--my parents, my brother and me--laughing
spilled from the shiny box. It was only during commercials
Yeast that we would hurry to the bathroom or to the kitchen Treatment of Carotid Artery Disease
for things like Carter’s Little Liver Pills and Fleischmann’s

for a glass of water.
There were broadcasts during which no one went to the Performed By Dr. Joseph Prior to TCAR, the main treatment option for severe
bathroom. Announcements that now bark from iPhones the Ricotta, The TCAR Procedure carotid artery disease was an open surgical procedure
size of a pack of cigarettes momentarily please or enrage called carotid endarterectomy (CEA). The CEA treatment
and are quickly forgotten. But during the thirties and Can Prevent A Future Stroke removes plaque from inside the carotid artery to restore
forties, nightly news was a bell that tolled for everyone. normal blood flow to the brain, but the large incision leaves
Parents sagged in their chairs when it was announced that In 2018, Delray Medical a visible scar the length of the neck and carries risks of
more factories had closed, and that one-third of the nation Center was the first in South surgical complications, including bleeding, infection, heart
was without work. Florida to treat carotid artery attack and cranial nerve injuries that can cause issues with
I remember my mother turning to my unemployed disease and prevent future swallowing, speaking and sensation in the face.
father, asking “But the jobs will come back, won’t they?” strokes using a new procedure The TCAR procedure was developed by Sunnyvale,
His silence told her all she needed to know. There were called transcarotid artery California-based Silk Road Medical, Inc. and includes
times, of course, when hope from the radio warmed the revascularization (TCAR). The the ENROUTE® Transcarotid Neuroprotection (NPS)
room. We stared unblinkingly at the box as the patrician TCAR procedure is performed and Stent System – the first devices designed and FDA-
baritone of President Roosevelt assured us he was leading by Joseph J. Ricotta, M.D., approved specifically for TCAR. Over 4,000 TCAR
us out of the Depression to a better place. M.S., FACS, National Medical procedures have been performed worldwide through
As months passed, the word unemployment was heard Director, Vascular Surgery and clinical trial and commercial use. TCAR has been studied
less, and the name Hitler more. Fathers who had served Endovascular Therapy for Tenet extensively, and the clinical data have been excellent.
in the trenches barely twenty years earlier would look at Healthcare, and on-staff at Delray Medical Center. This In addition to being on-staff at Delray Medical Center,
their teen-age sons and pray, “Please God, don’t let them TCAR procedure is a clinically proven, minimally invasive Dr. Ricotta’s medical office and office based laboratory is
go to war.” and safe approach for high surgical risk patients who need located at Prime Vascular Institute in Delray Beach about
It was from that box we learned the Japanese had bombed carotid artery treatment. one mile west of the hospital.
Pearl Harbor. I was eleven years old, but the only one in the Carotid artery disease is a form of atherosclerosis, or For more information, visit https://www.
family who knew where Pearl Harbor was. Little Orphan a buildup of plaque, in the two main arteries in the neck delraymedicalctr.com/services/cardiovascular/tcar
Annie, my companion for fifteen minutes every weekday, had that supply oxygen-rich blood
been taken to the naval base there by her guardian, Daddy to the brain. If left untreated,
Warbucks. I cried out “It’s in Hawaii!” Typically, information carotid artery disease can often
I offered in my high-pitched croak was considered unreliable, lead to stroke; it is estimated to
but this time everyone believed me. be the source of stroke in up to a
When I look back, I see my family huddled around the third of cases, with 400,000 new
radio, everyone’s eyes locked onto a box that brought the diagnoses of the disease made
world into the small place that was our home.  every year in the U.S. alone.
TCAR is unique in that
Vehicle Information blood flow is temporarily
reversed during the procedure
so that any small bits of plaque
If you have purchased a new vehicle within the past that may break off are diverted
6 months, please make sure the Boca Pointe Community away from the brain, preventing
Association management office has a copy of your current a stroke from happening. A
vehicle registration on file. Your gate transponder is linked stent is then placed inside the
to your vehicle so it is important that we have accurate artery to stabilize the plaque,
information in our system. Please fax it to (561) 395-5936 minimizing the risk of a future
or email it to admin@bocapointe.com. stroke.
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