On Saturday 28 June 2014 20:02:58 Gregg Eshelman did opine And Gene did reply: > On 6/28/2014 4:41 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And despite all that, I still feel better than I have in years. > > My 75 year old father went through a similar experience. Had a triple > bypass about 5 years ago and last year a stent in the 4th one that was > too small and twisty to do a bypass on. > > He'd had many small heart attacks and his complexion was rather grey > before the bypass, got even better after the stent. > > He has trouble getting up out of chairs but once up he gets around very > well and feels better than he had for years. Right out of recovery from > the bypass he said he felt much better than the day before. > > The VA sent him to Portland for an angiogram, then the doctor told him > he was going to stay there for heart surgery the next day, but that got > put off a day due to an emergency patient who came in. > I am happy he is doing well. I don't think I've ever had a "heart attack", although the Pulmonary Embolism that blocked off the artery from the right half of my heart and almost punched my ticket, with the back pressure blowing up the right half of it to at least 2x normal. About 2 days later they brought in the ultrasound and spent over an hour looking at it from every angle they could, and when he was done he said I can't find any excuse to put in a bypass or a stent, you should be good for years yet. I have been watching the diet, with very little beef because of its cholesterol, but more eggs that the wife likes to see me eat, and lots of pork, a bag of walnuts now & again since the DM-II pronouncement 25+ years ago, very little bread, just an occasional baked tater but that does run the sugar up.
This morning, more like just after noon because I was in the shop, modifying motor mounts & getting them re-installed this morning before the heat rolled in, I ate a slab of haddock about 6x4, out of tarter sauce so I grabbed some pickles & a handful of tater chips & cole slaw and called it breakfast. So I checked my sugar this evening since fish usually makes it drop like a rock, and it was 69 as I was sitting down to some swedish meatballs. Dee asked why I wasn't in a coma, but she forgets I saw 37 on it about 3 years back after pigging out on 2 orders of LJS's baked fish the night before, and I was still conscious, unaware of the danger I could have been in. Gotta eat more fish I guess. ;-) The AC isn't brag-able. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
