• Re: Hi all...

    From Havok@316:36/41 to Daryl Stout on Mon Aug 9 09:33:15 2021

    Hay Daryl

    How you feeling and are you keeping your nose clean as of late?

    Hope all is good...


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  • From Daryl Stout@316:36/20 to Havok on Sat Aug 14 22:57:00 2021
    How you feeling and are you keeping your nose clean as of late?

    Hope all is good...

    Actually, no. :(

    I had to be ambulatory to a local hospital on July 29. I had moderate discomfort between my throat and my heart...like I was going to vomit.
    Yet, I wasn't nauseated, wasn't short of breath, etc. Yet, when I got to
    the Emergency Room, my heart was racing at a blistering 155 beats per minute...known as "atrial flutter".

    I had never heard the term before...but knew of atrial fibrillation
    (AFIB) and ventricular fibrillation (VFIB). My Mom died of congestive
    heart failure and AFIB just over 2 years ago...and VFIB killed my wife
    14 1/2 years ago (she had a defective aortic heart valve since birth)...
    she was only 48 when she died.

    I didn't marry until I was 43, but I never dreamed I'd be a widower
    at 47. I never remarried, and we never had kids, so I'm the last of
    my line. At this stage of life, folks have too much baggage, such as:

    1) They can't manage money (credit cards)
    2) They let their kids treat them like crap (cussing them out, etc.).
    3) They or their kids are in trouble with the law, are convicted felons,
    etc.

    I basically don't want, or need that extra drama in my life.

    In the hospital, they tried 2 medications through the intraveneous
    feed, but that only lowered the rate temporarily. So, they put me on
    "a cardiac drip", and admitted me for 4 days. They now have me on a
    blood thinner (to prevent formation of a blood clot that could cause
    a fatal heart attack or stroke), and a medication to stabilize the
    heart rate and blood pressure. They also did a chest X-Ray, and an echocardiogram in the hospital. It got the heart rate down to 74...
    and like in golf, 74 for 18 holes is much better than 155!! :P I was
    released on August 1.

    The other day, I had a chemical stress test, and an echocardiogram at Arkansas Heart Hospital Clinic. This is much quicker than the treadmill
    stress test, but produces the same result. Right after they inject that chemical, it's like a snake had bit you!!

    You get chest pain, short of breath, feel like you have a fever, your
    pulse starts racing, and you might get nauseated...all as if you were
    having a heart attack. At least I did not get nauseated, and the readings stabilized real quick. They did have "a crash cart" nearby, in case I had suffered a heart attack, but thank The Lord it wasn't needed. When I was
    in the Emergency Room, the blood work did not show any sign of a heart
    attack. So, apparently, I caught this mess in time.

    The results got in on the patient portal that night, but I couldn't
    find a way to view them. So, I have to wait for the cardiologist (he
    isn't the one with the get will cards <G>) to contact me next week,
    and let me know what the results were. I'm supposed to have a follow-up
    visit with him on August 25. Right now, I don't know if I'll need surgery
    for a pacemaker, or if there was any blockage that needs to be removed
    with bypass surgery.

    I never thought I'd be a heart patient...even though I'm classed as
    obese class II, but I know folks whose body mass index is much higher
    than mine is. In fact, I've lost weight since I was in the hospital.

    Daryl

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  • From Havok@316:36/41 to Daryl Stout on Sun Aug 15 07:57:26 2021
    I didn't marry until I was 43, but I never dreamed I'd be a widower
    at 47. I never remarried, and we never had kids, so I'm the last of
    my line. At this stage of life, folks have too much baggage, such as:
    1) They can't manage money (credit cards)
    2) They let their kids treat them like crap (cussing them out, etc.).

    I know this one myself, during my divorce the ex told me you wait I'm going
    to hurt you for the rest of you life, I thought at the time lady soon as I'm
    done paying you 2400 a month I'll forget all about you. But now I know what
    she had planned have not talked to my three kids in over 14 years. I have
    reached out but told I was never there for them. Even after car loans, college tuition x3. So when asked I state never had kids.


    3) They or their kids are in trouble with the law, are convicted felons,

    Lucky never been there.


    etc.
    I basically don't want, or need that extra drama in my life.
    attack. So, apparently, I caught this mess in time.

    Yes Daryl
    I think you did, better eatting and as much lack of stress and you can! agreed! At this point we better da*mm well look after our self!

    As stated before, I'm not ready to say Goodspeed for you or me!


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  • From Daryl Stout@316:36/20 to Havok on Sun Aug 15 11:43:00 2021
    reached out but told I was never there for them. Even after car loans, college tuition x3. So when asked I state never had kids.

    It's so sad that so many marriages end so quick with divorce...which is a
    vow tied with a slipknot. I've heard of folks get married on a Friday, and
    they are filing for divorce on a Monday. Or, they get married on New Years
    Eve, then get divorced on Jan. 2, just to show they were married the previous year on their tax forms.

    3) They or their kids are in trouble with the law, are convicted felons,

    Lucky never been there.

    You are.

    I think you did, better eatting and as much lack of stress and you
    can! agreed! At this point we better da*mm well look after our self!

    I'd like to stay on "this side of the grass" for awhile. It's like the
    joke where the preacher is talking to this group of senior citizens and
    elderly folks in Sunday School. He asks them "Why do you believe that The
    Good Lord has allowed each of you to live to such a ripe old age??". One elderly woman piped right up "To test the patience of my relatives". <G>

    As stated before, I'm not ready to say Goodspeed for you or me!

    Thank you, sir. :)

    Daryl

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  • From Havok@316:36/41 to Daryl Stout on Mon Aug 16 08:16:51 2021
    It's so sad that so many marriages end so quick with divorce...which is a vow tied with a slipknot. I've heard of folks get married on a Friday, and they are filing for divorce on a Monday. Or, they get married on New Years Eve, then get divorced on Jan. 2, just to show they were married the previous year on their tax forms.

    With me it's not that I'm excluded it's my Mom that is 90 and the call her Sue
    not Grandmother, that's when you know their is more to play then just me. I
    can handle me but what did my Mother have to do with it.

    As for you and me I hope we both stick in there for a long, long time!


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