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In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

He didn't think it was funny. The residents were smirking.

Later he said, "You look good. Well-healed. You can pretty much resume
normal life."

I said, Does that mean drinking, smoking and the thing I like to do with
the livestock..."

Not even a tiny smile, but a couple of the residents excused themselves
and I could hear them howling out in the hall.

<lol> Your doc should realize you can't keep a good man down.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

You should be good to go for another 20 years at least,
and now you know how to keep your cholesterol under control?

My cholesterol at its highest was 160. Now 105. Trigs wonderful. Heart
rate grand. Respiration rate, splendid. HDL/LDL ratio textbook. And I'll
get little twinges for the rest of my life. But it's way better than the
most obvious alternative.

It's so bizarre. My numbers were magnificent while I was having a heart
attack. I should have been in the Olympics instead of that hospital bed.
We finally came to the conclusion that I chose my parents unwisely.

So it goes...

Pastorio

Weird. With those numbers, you should have been ok?
What were your triglycerides before? Popular opinion points at those
being FAR worse than a high cholesterol.

Some docs are drifting more towards checking homocysteine levels now.
It's not popular tho' as bad levels of that can be treated with B
vitamins. <G> No profit for the drug companies.

It might explain what happened? Looky here:

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4677
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote:

>Wanna see the zipper in my chest?

Please tell me that's not true....... :-(

MI in '89. Blew up balloons in arteries. That lasted a decade, rather
than the 5 they said, and then a triple.

They changed the oil and checked the other fluids while in there.

I like the zipper better than the alternative.

Pastorio

That's a point... :-)
I've seen those surgeries tho', they are aweful!
You have my sincere empathy.

You should be good to go for another 20 years at least,
and now you know how to keep your cholesterol under control?

I only had a single bypass 20 years ago in 09/07. Just had a complete
hear checkup in December and they said that bypass was still clean and
the bypassed artery had since bypessed the plug. I'm with Pastorio, it's
a whole lot better than the alternative. Same with the two carotid
cleanouts, one last December, one three years ago. I can remember more
stuff than I want to nowadays. Thank goodness for modern medicine or Bob
nor I would be amongst you today.

If you ever have to have one ask the surgeon how many he does a year, if
it's thousands go with him, if it's two, go get another thoracic surgeon.

George

Bob (this one) said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

Bob (this one) said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

> "Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Wanna see the zipper in my chest?
>
>
> Please tell me that's not true....... :-(

MI in '89. Blew up balloons in arteries. That lasted a decade, rather
than the 5 they said, and then a triple.

They changed the oil and checked the other fluids while in there.

I like the zipper better than the alternative.

Pastorio

That's a point... :-)
I've seen those surgeries tho', they are aweful!
You have my sincere empathy.

It was less fun than I was hoping for, but I went home on day three
after the surgery and healed astonishingly fast.

I drove to my 4-week checkup in strict contradiction to the doc's
orders. When I got there, he had a string of residents with him to learn
from the master. He said, "How'd you get here?" I said, "Drove." He
said, I told you no driving, no lifting and no sex." I said, "Three out
of three..."

He didn't think it was funny. The residents were smirking.

Later he said, "You look good. Well-healed. You can pretty much resume
normal life."

I said, Does that mean drinking, smoking and the thing I like to do with
the livestock..."

Not even a tiny smile, but a couple of the residents excused themselves
and I could hear them howling out in the hall.

Quoted message said:

You should be good to go for another 20 years at least,
and now you know how to keep your cholesterol under control?

My cholesterol at its highest was 160. Now 105. Trigs wonderful. Heart
rate grand. Respiration rate, splendid. HDL/LDL ratio textbook. And I'll
get little twinges for the rest of my life. But it's way better than the
most obvious alternative.

It's so bizarre. My numbers were magnificent while I was having a heart
attack. I should have been in the Olympics instead of that hospital bed.
We finally came to the conclusion that I chose my parents unwisely.

So it goes...

Pastorio

Damn Bob! We may be related. My male ancestors for 9 generations back
all died of heart attacks. Dad at 71, his dad at 52, his at 24. We tend
to marry young and breed fast if we want descendants. Now my 44 yo
daughter has a bad mitral valve. What next? My chol. has never been
higher than 220 and trigs. at about 200. Everything is much lower now
thanks to Zocor and the other 11 scripts I take every day. Hurrah for
modern medicine. Don't even ask me how many strokes I've survived.

George

George Shirley said:

Damn Bob! We may be related. My male ancestors for 9 generations back
all died of heart attacks. Dad at 71, his dad at 52, his at 24.

Both sides in my family. Mother and her sibs all had problems. Paternal
grandmother as well. Father.

Modern technology is the only reason I can sit here in my underwear and
type. Well, maybe not the underwear, but the typing part.

Quoted message said:

We tend to marry young and breed fast if we want descendants.

I've always enjoyed that breeding thing.

Pastorio

Bob (this one) said:

George Shirley said:

Damn Bob! We may be related. My male ancestors for 9 generations back
all died of heart attacks. Dad at 71, his dad at 52, his at 24.

Both sides in my family. Mother and her sibs all had problems. Paternal
grandmother as well. Father.

Modern technology is the only reason I can sit here in my underwear and
type. Well, maybe not the underwear, but the typing part.

Quoted message said:

We tend to marry young and breed fast if we want descendants.

I've always enjoyed that breeding thing.

Pastorio

Once upon a stroke I did too. <VBG>

George

"George Shirley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Bob (this one) said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

"Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
>> "Bob (this one)" <[email hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> Wanna see the zipper in my chest?
>>
>>
>> Please tell me that's not true....... :-(
>
>
> MI in '89. Blew up balloons in arteries. That lasted a decade, rather
> than the 5 they said, and then a triple.
>
> They changed the oil and checked the other fluids while in there.
>
> I like the zipper better than the alternative.
>
> Pastorio

That's a point... :-)
I've seen those surgeries tho', they are aweful!
You have my sincere empathy.

It was less fun than I was hoping for, but I went home on day three
after the surgery and healed astonishingly fast.

I drove to my 4-week checkup in strict contradiction to the doc's
orders. When I got there, he had a string of residents with him to learn
from the master. He said, "How'd you get here?" I said, "Drove." He
said, I told you no driving, no lifting and no sex." I said, "Three out
of three..."

He didn't think it was funny. The residents were smirking.

Later he said, "You look good. Well-healed. You can pretty much resume
normal life."

I said, Does that mean drinking, smoking and the thing I like to do with
the livestock..."

Not even a tiny smile, but a couple of the residents excused themselves
and I could hear them howling out in the hall.

Quoted message said:

You should be good to go for another 20 years at least,
and now you know how to keep your cholesterol under control?

My cholesterol at its highest was 160. Now 105. Trigs wonderful. Heart
rate grand. Respiration rate, splendid. HDL/LDL ratio textbook. And I'll
get little twinges for the rest of my life. But it's way better than the
most obvious alternative.

It's so bizarre. My numbers were magnificent while I was having a heart
attack. I should have been in the Olympics instead of that hospital bed.
We finally came to the conclusion that I chose my parents unwisely.

So it goes...

Pastorio

Damn Bob! We may be related. My male ancestors for 9 generations back
all died of heart attacks. Dad at 71, his dad at 52, his at 24. We tend
to marry young and breed fast if we want descendants. Now my 44 yo
daughter has a bad mitral valve. What next? My chol. has never been
higher than 220 and trigs. at about 200. Everything is much lower now
thanks to Zocor and the other 11 scripts I take every day. Hurrah for
modern medicine. Don't even ask me how many strokes I've survived.

George

"George Shirley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Damn Bob! We may be related. My male ancestors for 9 generations back
all died of heart attacks. Dad at 71, his dad at 52, his at 24.

Note the trend here, though; if it holds, you're good to go until
you're damn near 90....:-)

Bob M.

Bob Myers said:

"George Shirley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Damn Bob! We may be related. My male ancestors for 9 generations back
all died of heart attacks. Dad at 71, his dad at 52, his at 24.

Note the trend here, though; if it holds, you're good to go until
you're damn near 90....:-)

Bob M.

More than that, the only uncle I have left, out of five, will be 92 next
month. I think every artery and major vein in his body has been
bypassed. He quit smoking, drinking, and eating fatty foods 40 years
ago. No idea about anything else. He's also damned near bedridden
nowadays, can't even go fishing or hunting anymore.

I wouldn't mind living that long if it works out. MIL will be 98 this
year but she's never had a drink of alcohol, smoked a cigarette, or been
dancing. Got six kids though so I guess her life wasn't a total loss. <VBG>

George