What's Happenin' (Part 2)

[houghchrst]

I Dont do cream and sugar in my coffee but sometimes sugar on my cereal and I drink more pop than I should. Probably a 2ltr a week. I have read that coffee in moderation can be beneficial with heart patients just like a glass of wine or shot of whiskey in the evening can be beneficial. I don't drink except maybe three times a year and socially and then I limit myself to two drinks.

I do enjoy tea and from what I have read tea can have more caffeine in it than most people think. I do mmiss my tea ritual. I have one of my grandmother's little steeping pots and her tea cups that she hand painted.

[clouds z]

ill drink hansons root beer or ginger ale -maybe 2 cans a week

drank some sugar pepsi last week -felt terrible

[clouds z]

i think if we dont stop sugar its impossible to get better

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everybody should read that

[houghchrst]

unfortunately I am a sugar and carb junkie. I have cut back but I still have a thing for chocolate.

[houghchrst]

I have gone back to smoking cigarettes but I feel different this time. I'm scared with every smoke I have. Not to mention shortcake or his dad finding out. Nothing like adding to the stress lol. I have an ipad and at one time had a couple of meditation apps guess I will reload them and start again. Helped with drugs. I am considering going to my local Y and getting an application for low income. I would love to start swimming and their water aerobics are free with membership. I also read that doing a bit of weight lifting is good for you. I have been doing a lot of reading online about getting heart healthy and quitting smoking. There are many resources for both.

I am working on changing my diet, more fruit and veggies. Then they recommend that you take it easy on the fruit due to the sugar content. Still eating too much bread. White bread. I plan to switch to brown whole grain bread as soon as we use the bread stockpile up. I ordered from the pizza place Friday night but instead of getting pizza and cheezy bread I ordered a family sized salad with a bit of chicken and lots of veggies. Me and shortcake loved it. I have replaced lettuce with fresh spinach which we love. Been buying bags of mixed veggies and eat them raw. It is so much more expensive keeping us in fresh fruit and veggies than buying prepared food. Especially when I only get $15 in foodstamps. I am struggling to keep food for shortcake. He eats like a horse and is old enough to feed himself so prepared for him is what I usually get. He is getting chubby and sits all day long. He wants free weights for christmas but I just picture them sitting on the floor of his room.

He wants exercise too. Offered to walk with me. unfortunately winter is coming and some days its just too damn cold. now three years ago I would go out with the dogs and walk the property most mornings, take my camera and get nature pictures. Look for my hawks, geese and herons. Take care of things to winterize my yard. Not since my pain became so overwhelming and I sat on my butt for two years. I am severely depressed, overwhelmed with stress, in great pain, trying to quit smoking and it is immobilizing. Not to mention my house is in a shambles and I know if I took care of it I would feel better. I can feel it all like a great elephant is sitting on my shoulders. Well crap I went on too long. Just full up.

My brother brought me an article on sitting and a magazine on exercise. He wasnt suggesting anything lol. I will see if I can get the link for here.

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Now I am more mindful of how long I sit. The pain kept me sitting or laying for over 2 yrs, I think that was a major contributor to my heart attack. Now I suck it up and have been moving more and I have been staying away from the 800 mg of ibuprofen I was taking three times a day which I found out can contribute to heart attacks.

I am a meat eater so I don't know about going vegan but I really haven't been eating much red meat.

Now I think I spent more time proof reading this than I spent writing it. I am way too anal. Then I added more. Sorry y'all like I said "just full up"

[houghchrst]

saw the cardiologist yesterday. Got some answers as to somewhat what the cause is. He claims I have high blood pressure but he only saw what it was while I was in the hospital in a hallucinatory/confused state. It may very well have been high then but it never was at my regular doc appts and wasn't yesterday when I went in, it was normal.

He says I had about 20% blockage, my blood pressure was high and I have a heart muscle that is thickening and not working to full capacity. Not a word about my smoking, changing diet, nothing. I brought them all up. He didn't even nod to say he heard me. New cat scan, sleep test, and then back to him. I still have to wear the vest for the three months but he said when I come back we can get rid of the vest and work on getting rid of some of the meds.

I can go to the dentist for xrays, and I can have my MRI and back injections. He is willing to stop the Plavix so I can do these things. I am happy with that.

[clouds z]

youre doctor seems like a moron

[Earth Mother 2 Angels]

((((((houghchrst)))))) ~

I wish your cardiologist was more interested and forthcoming with you. Some docs just have a lousy bedside manner, and that can be frustrating for patients. Maybe he thinks it's a "given" that you should quit smoking and change your diet, but at least he could acknowledge your questions.

One of the things I did wonder was whether you have sleep apnea. I guess the testing will determine the answer.

It sounds like this is a process, as are many medical issues, and you have assorted steps to take for the doc to get a handle on your condition and what is best for you in the long run.

I replied to your post on the other forum with some more thoughts and suggestions for you.

Sending healing prayers for you ~

Please keep us updated.

Love & Light,



Rose

[jingle]

houghchrst ... when the neurosurgeon was talking to me about his surgery to remove a tumor that looked malignant from my brain, I interrupted him and said. "I stopped smoking!!" He quit talking, took off his glassed and bowed his head. Then he looked at me and said, "Nancy, that's better for you than my surgery".

Quitting smoking isn't easy but it certainly is worth the effort. I wish you the best.

[clouds z]

american doctors dont even heal anymore much or at times -theyre just money people who like money and a secure cushy job

if i ever had kids i bet id get hounded to vaccinate and in a way im sort of a Christian scientist

i wanna move to Russia

[houghchrst]

Hi all, Rose I chopped up that other post because the forum was medical marijuana and there I was just ramblin' on like usual so I figured I'd put it in a more suitable place. Yes I thank you for the link. I have already looked online for the books. Amazon has some great deals. i can only afford one type of diet so that means shortcake will have to change his too and I feel bad for that but his weight gain and sedentary lifestyle worries me since I had my heart attack. He is too young. He enjoys going places with me so maybe I can get him a gym membership when I get mine.

I dread the thought of having sleep apnea. My Princess' husband has it and uses his cpap faithfully, he was pretty young and overweight and my brother has it but he doesn't use a cpap. He is well over 300 lbs. I can't imagine having that stuck to my face while trying to sleep. I have looked up on it and am finding that it isn't something easily reversible

My truck is dying. Well my Aztec. I call it a truck the government calls it a station wagon. Odd. I love this truck it holds all my camping gear, is great for picking up stuff for repurposing or restoring. I have slowly been picking up metal to turn in. It's amazing, every little piece of metal has a different price from mother boards to vacuum cleaner plugs. If you go out regularly, learn all the garbage days you can make a fortune, especially right after christmas. Between that and auto work CJ got us through plenty of rough spots doing it. Anyway it suddenly overheated on the e way and I couldn't pull over because I was on the off ramp in the middle of traffic and I was almost home. I never thought that short of distance would blow the head gasket. I think something was up anyway because the heat never worked properly. Quite frankly my mechanic is disgusted and I got the pull over lecture. I can get to the local store and gas station. Thankfully my pharmacy and most doc offices are close to me.

I am not doing well with the quitting smoking thing. It has been a week. My oldest son said 'they' say that after the first three days you are over a major hump. Lies lol, I was quit for five years and still went back. I quit for a month after I had my heart attack and still went back. UGH!!! I am so disgusted with myself. I think that it is easier to end the smoking day smoking then when you wake up and it is a new day and you start over but I'll be damned if I didn't get up wanting one and went to the corner gas station in my jammies, blind because I hadn't even put on my glasses yet. LOL it's pitiful. I can laugh because I know I will quit but my stress level is so high that I just don't feel like this is the greatest of times to quit mentally. Physically and the rational part of me knows I need to quit. What is it that those 80 and 90 yr old people manage to smoke for years and have no problems.

the cardiologist seems to be on the ball even if he was short with me. He was pretty behind but aren't they all. he has scheduled me for a sleep study, how they are going to do that at noon I have no clue. Should I get up at 4 in the a.m. lol. I can't even nap properly in the late afternoons since they gave me all the meds and I have this stupid vest on. I feel like I need a nap but I lay there. I have a two month check up then an echo cardiogram. I thought he said ct scan but I could have been wrong. The paperwork says echo. I see my primary tomorrow which I just realized I will have to reschedule because of transportation problems.

clouds my son's girlfriend doesn't vaccinate any more. Not since her son regressed from a normal toddler to developing autism after getting three different vaccinations at the same time. They told her to put him in a home that he would never be able to develop mentally or be able to reason. Boy were they wrong. He is 7 and needs round the clock care but he is developing thanks to a fantastic program at his school and my son who adores him and helps him learn social skills.

When my son met her she had that child attached at the hip. She cooked, cleaned, showered with that child on her hip until my son took Little from her and set him down. That child tottered off and began to play. The doctors had her convinced that he would spend his life living in that toddler state. Thank God they were wrong. I think he has a heightened ADHD and speeding thought processes also. They considered trying MMJ to help him, to slow him down but she already has had to deal with CPS in Georgia she is afraid. We have two local clinics that I know of that will see a child and if warranted sign paperwork for then to use MMJ. I believe the right CBD would be a great medicine for him. How do you explain to the school why all of a sudden your child is doing well and paying better attention, focusing better..............'he's doing wonderfully what medication are you giving him?' How long before the questions from the medical community, Sandee the witch finding out and calling CPS. Takes a lot of hard thinking and a strong family to be able to dose your child and survive the possible fallout. Thankfully things are changing. I believe the cure to every disease or ailment is right here on this planet, growing freely. I wouldn't be surprised if some cures are already found but big Pharma has their thumb on it. Money rules the world. can ya say amen

Shortcake gave me this computer for early christmas so yous will prolly be seeing me more. It is at the dining room table, we never eat on it except for holidays, and it is a regular instead of my ipad. Missed the keyboard.

til later love yous all and miss many

[houghchrst]

good lord you guys, I am so sorry lol, my posts are so long. have they always been? Seems like it

[jingle]

I am DELIGHTED to see a post - any post - especially a long one!!

[houghchrst]

Clouds I meant to ask you, why russia?

It's rainy and dreary here today. my star shower, yes I bought one of them things, is supposed to go offf during the day but there is no sun lol. It's still merrily shining on and in the house. Can't believe I'm the only one in the circle that has one for as common as they are in the store. It actually does what it says. It would shine wonderfully on a two story ranch. Mine covers the entire front of the house except the garage and I have a tree in the way of that and my vehicle. Some of my neighbors go all out. I use to try, indoors and out but it has become a major chore to put it all away and it just isn't the same when ya got no git up and go. I'm going for the minimalist look this year. I have even thought of investing in a fake prelit tree but they just dont do the lights like I like them. I like them all to twinkle right in to the trunk. Gives that three dimensional look. They are a pain to take off the tree but it sure is pretty. I could get a prelit and add lights. That would probably be pretty.

Spoiler alert lol, it says to not look at the lasers as they give off radiation. So right now I am basically irradiating my house.

[tic chick]

hey all !

nice to see y'all posting.

hello jingle and clouds and chris (and all former members now lurking )!

clouds, i wouldn't move to russia if you paid me. the basis of a democracy doesn't exist there. if you wrote "putin is a moron" on a sign and carried it down the street in moscow, your butt would be in jail in 5 minutes. no trial. and forget about anykind of news! here at least, you have several news sources to get news from. believe what you want to believe. in russia, they have one newspaper and it's controlled by the government. you only get to read the news they want you to read. so, putin can say anything and no newspaper can disagree with him. russia is a dictatorship. people have been coming to america to escape despots like him for hundreds of years.

jingle, i hope you had a nice thanksgiving. do you have family that you shared dinner with?

chris, i've been reading your posts in the various forums here. first, i'm sorry about the heart attack . you were doing so well, losing weight, but that smoking is so bad. i quit cold turkey, long time ago. you just gotta tough it out the first 2 weeks. you think that sounds like something feasible for you?
i dunno why your doc is reluctant to give you the klonopin. that's the dose i've been taking, 1mg in the am and 2mg. at night. i think the dea even knocked down klonopin from a schedule 3 to a schedule 4 drug, meaning there is a lesser chance of getting addicted to it then schedule 1, 2 or 3 drugs. the only thing they mentioned was that docs were reluctant to give it to people with other addictions or who take other drugs that might be addicting. so, i dunno if your doc is concerned about your cannabis use or the smoking thingie.
i thought shortcake was doing well on the encopresis issue with the meds he was taking back a year or two ago (time flies). i know you said he was in therapy. maybe time to go back to what works. if he has anxiety issues also, it makes all his problems worse. somebody gave me a website, "charlottesweb/hemp", that has cbd oil with almost no thc in it! this woman was taking it for anxiety issues and she gave it to her cat when it had cancer. yeah, they have a cbd oil for animals, too.
the doctor assumes people know that being overweight, smoking and other factors make it more likely to have a heart attack. he prolly also assumes people know that and just don't want to do it. i dunno, but that attitude sucks. people need help. maybe a different doc?

so, i have been involved with seeing 2 doctors for issues that i can't ignore any more. i have pelvic organ prolapse because of my kids all being 9 pounders or close and having to have forceps deliveries. it's pretty common in women after age 50. i was told i had a small bowel prolapse after my last child was born, in 1985, but it didn't cause probs. now, i have a bowel, uterus and bladder prolapse, the trifecta of prolapses. i'm having a hysterectomy and my tubes removed, but i refused to let them take out my ovaries because i know they still produce some hormones even in their aged and shriveled state...hahaha...and then i'm having a sling put in to hold up my bladder. so, it's a 4 hour surgery, the colorectal surgeon doing one part and the pelvic reconstruction guy doing the rest, laparoscopically and robotically. this is going to happen asap. it's a 3 month recovery period before i can do anything like zumba and i want to be ready to garden in april. if anybody reading this has had this surgery, please pm me or write a post here and especially if you kept your ovaries and are glad you did!

otherwise, things are all going okay. still with my bf, the pookie. my hair has finally grown out and i have this great looking silver hair. i should have let it grow out years ago. ppppppppfffffffft. oh well. i lurk around here, too, i gotta say, but am limiting my time on the computer because i was just spending too much time here and facebook.

dawn....i hope your daughter is doing well after her surgery. does she have a good prognosis for this tumor? i hope so. i'm keeping her in my prayers.

so, i'll check in soon to how y'all are doing!

thank you for sharing and caring,
jeannie