[SOC] Plumbing

Sat Apr 17 18:18:00 2004

Chris - Got a stent in the lateral anterior descending artery
(catheterization as described by Mark) 3 years ago. I was so shocked at the
flaccid appearance of this thing (the doctor showed me before and after
videotape) before and robust movement after, that my 40-year cigarette habit
ended that day (nothing like cold fear... what do turkeys have to do with
this, anyway?). I gained about 55 lbs. a bit under a year later with no
change in eating or exercise habits and have since lost 15 lbs. of it (never
had to watch my weight before!). Age is 59. Age is a curse or our
expectations are VERY unrealistic (a bit of each, I suspect). Good luck.
Seen wonderful things happen to relatives and acquaintances in the last
several years. You picked a great time to develop this problem! Most of my
line was long dead before they were my present age. My father had a
quintuple bypass and died at 80 of a stroke. I suspect I'll beat that if I
behave myself. 73 Jan N0AAA

----- Original Message -----
From: "W1EOF" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 2:01 AM
Subject: RE: [SOC] Plumbing

> I don't know how old you are Chris, I'm 47. While having some tests for
> another (electrical of all things) problem they detected what seemed like
a
> blockage. I went in and had the catherization where they get very close to
> the blockage site and inject dye while looking at a monitor realtime. In
the
> end they decided that there wasn't much of a blockage and what was there
was
> located in a bad spot for ballooning. It truly is amazing what they can do
> through a catheter. By the way, don't be shocked but you will be awake for
> the procedure. No big deal, I actually enjoyed watching the procedure.
>
> I'm going back in hospital in a few months for another catherization, this
> time they will use some RF to blow a short that is messing up the timing.
> It's actually like a parrallel resistor across a diode, so that there are
> times I go into a parsitic oscillation.
>
> I quit cigarettes a bit over 2 years ago, wish I had done it sooner. I
take
> a small aspirin twice a day and vitamin E once a day. Every male should be
> doing this. It's been proven to be effective, even by the "mainstream"
> medical community.
>
> Health is good.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark W1EOF
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> > Behalf Of Chris Redding
> > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 8:20 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [SOC] Plumbing
> >
> >
> > The hospital says that I need a triple bypass (a gift from my father,
> > apparently, although we never met :-).
> > In fact, I only need one bypass, but they say that while they 'have the
> > bonnet (hood) open' they might as well do all three, and get it over
with.
> >
> > Given that there are some people on this site who are even more
> > 'chronologically challenged' than me (and proud of it), can
> > someone tell me
> > what it was like for them?.
> >
> > I'm not bleating...I just want some cold, hard facts.  Forewarned is
> > forearmed, and all that.
> >
> > Chris G4PDJ
> >
> >
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