Yeah, after I got back (I had mere kidney stones), I was wondering where you'd gotten to. Good to see you. 
You tell me your medicare stories and I'll tell you mine.
You tell me your medicare stories and I'll tell you mine.
I'm BacccK!
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you're alive ,no infection ,came home with your own organs and legs ,good job!! --you got you're moneys worth ?
I'm being sarcastic ,glad you're OK so far
I'm being sarcastic ,glad you're OK so far
Been there done that. Last April 18th I suffered a heart attack. Had to be jump started twice. Luckily the pain in my back had sent me to emerg. I collapsed about 15 minutes after arriving. A week and half later I had quad bypass. I'm only 44. Runs in the family, high cholesterol. My bro died at 38, my mum at 46, her bro at 47.
Every day you will feel better, I did. Recovery is not too bad. Take your meds, get your exercise and watch your diet. Low fat no salt added. Keep active as best you can and within docs limits. I got a stress test due on the 28th. I'm hoping they take of my heart rate limit of max 138. I'm on Crestor and daily dose of ASA. My Nova-metropol (beta blocker) script ran out and docs don't seem inclined to renew it. Was on that for 9 months. I take a one a day vitamin for the B6, B12 and folic acid. I started to suffer some depression and am on an anti-depressant. Keep active and don't mope around and you might avoid that. depression is common after a heart attack but not a given.
Welcome to the zipper in the chest club. Are you walking around with a little red pillow?
Best of luck to ya, man.
Every day you will feel better, I did. Recovery is not too bad. Take your meds, get your exercise and watch your diet. Low fat no salt added. Keep active as best you can and within docs limits. I got a stress test due on the 28th. I'm hoping they take of my heart rate limit of max 138. I'm on Crestor and daily dose of ASA. My Nova-metropol (beta blocker) script ran out and docs don't seem inclined to renew it. Was on that for 9 months. I take a one a day vitamin for the B6, B12 and folic acid. I started to suffer some depression and am on an anti-depressant. Keep active and don't mope around and you might avoid that. depression is common after a heart attack but not a given.
Welcome to the zipper in the chest club. Are you walking around with a little red pillow?
Best of luck to ya, man.
Colpy,
Ive been talking to a mutual friend (better?) and he wanted me to tell you
Ive been talking to a mutual friend (better?) and he wanted me to tell you
http://ourcorner.us/viewtopic.php?t=10&start=7380
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Thanks for all the good feelings, all you good people.
It is a priviledge to hang with a bunch like you.
It is a priviledge to hang with a bunch like you.
What a dreadful time you and your wife have been through. Take care, and I hope that you continue to improve in health Colpy.
What a story Colby. Thank God you were not living home alone. My Dad
fell from a stroke and lied on the floor for 4 hours before my sister found him.
The buddy system. We got a couple of friends living alone we check on.
Wish you well Colby. Selfishly I might add, since your reasoned voice balances some
of our more funnier wacko posters !!
fell from a stroke and lied on the floor for 4 hours before my sister found him.
The buddy system. We got a couple of friends living alone we check on.
Wish you well Colby. Selfishly I might add, since your reasoned voice balances some
of our more funnier wacko posters !!
Welcome back Colpy. Take care of yourself. They say such life changing events often change a person's priorities in life. Things that were important no longer are and vice versa. Family usually goes straight to the top. Glad to see you're on the mend. Live life to the fullest when your feeling up to it.
Been there, done all that. All that except for the surgery. In my case they did what they call angioplasty. They put in a few stents to open up the offending arteries.
Colpy, go along with the exercize they will be reccomending. In a month you will be walking a mile....In three months you will be running a mile....After that the sky's the limit.
Am I right if I say your heart is less sore than where they got the replacement arteries from?
Hang in there. Glad you're back.....:smile:[/quote
Yeah, they did the dye test with me Monday Morning after the attack. They had told me they thought my heart was undamaged as my attack was very minor, thanks to the quick application of aspirin and treatment. I expected to be done and out Wednesday...........but then the Doc started saying "oh"..........."Oh". He told me I had three 80 to 90 % blockades, one of which was in a artery "y" section...........which limited options to
1. drug therapy
2. high risk angioplasty.......which means they do one side of the "y", which action blocks the other, causing a heart attack on the table, which they resolve by doing the other side of the "y".
3. see a surgeon
I said "Which fixes me?"
They said "closest to a fix is a surgeon"
I said "Find one"
Then waited until Thursday for the operation.
In this case, I was treated fabulously by our socialized medical system.
You'll be pleased to hear.
And I have so far experienced practically NO discomfort in either incision..........the 7 inch one down the centre of my chest, or the 18" one down my leg.
Wifey says I look like something on the table on CSI.
Scary stuff, glad to hear about your recovery and I imagine your family is grateful you are still with them. It's an experience, so I'm told, that changes ones perspectives on life and their relationships with the ones they love.....nothing is taken for granted anymore, in a small way I envy your situation.
I've had some family members and friends of the family go through similar experiences in our health care system and they all had excellent care with no debt afterwards.
Take care dude.
I've had some family members and friends of the family go through similar experiences in our health care system and they all had excellent care with no debt afterwards.
Take care dude.
well i'm not sure who you are, but i'm sure we'll get to know eachother on the forum. I'm glad to hear you're ok .
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Just take things a bit easier now,you youngster! It was a bit of a shock to hear about your medical problems as you're the second person known to me who has gone thru this in the past few weeks[another retired postie,Larry Gautreau]
Just had a thought (unusual so early in the morning)
We seem to take all these medical miracles of science of repair and recovery
as par for the course when just a few short years ago there was little to be
done...
Now we have a good friend sitting here writing to us - giving his wife a scare (which she handled so beautifully).... and who will soon be back writing about all the blather we get into on this forum.
Keep on improving daily Colpy....behave.... and return 100% soon as you can!
We seem to take all these medical miracles of science of repair and recovery
as par for the course when just a few short years ago there was little to be
done...
Now we have a good friend sitting here writing to us - giving his wife a scare (which she handled so beautifully).... and who will soon be back writing about all the blather we get into on this forum.
Keep on improving daily Colpy....behave.... and return 100% soon as you can!