If I had the answers, I’d be getting paid about 3x what I currently do because I’d be an actual cardiologist instead of just a statistician that rubs elbows with cardiologists on their clinical trials.
Virtually certain that I have some familiarity with them. Like you said, not an exceptionally small world but not a big one either, and I’ve worked in some capacity with many of the cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at Pitt over the last few years.
Hope both of you are keeping well. I’ve been sort of absentee on the forums other than posting my workouts in my log due to balancing professional commitments and raising two little monsters now instead of one…working remotely has been a huge boon in many respects (no longer having commute = get back 90+ minutes of my day that used to be spent in the care to have more family time) but also, obviously, a challenge to draw some line between “working” and “parenting” when your kids are in the next room, so I’ve tried to minimize distractions when I’m with the family and really “stay present” when I’m there.
Of course, I take the time to write this post on Christmas Day of all days because they’re napping and my wife is getting her workout in…the rare moment of actual silence and peace to myself…
As BG said, glad you didn’t die, and would prefer that you continue to stay not-dead. Really a bummer that you’re still having some issues considering how hard you’ve been working to stay on the right side of this…guess right now you’ve gotta just control the things you can control and trust it will come out okay…
My grandma has a funny story. Apparently When I was in the nicu, she heard my parents describe the treatment and got very pissed at the “western doctors” poking around so she literally busted in to deliver some Chinese medicine
Yeah. I’d bet things like that happen more than most people know.
When my brother was in rehab after breaking his neck we used to bring booze and other various substances in. There was a place out back (accessible by wheel chair, of course) where a few of us would sneak out to toke up.
We got warned a couple of times, but the warning was like “I don’t want any of these guys falling out of their chair, so watch it!”
6.5 miles on airdyne. Lost track of time when I hit pause to talk to the kiddo and forgot to restart. Not that important though.
I pushed it a little harder through the first 10 minutes, which is usually a warm up that still counts as part of regular regiment of distance/time. The result was better over all, same work done in less time. Pushed a little harder for the last .5 mile too, but the fatigue definitely showed.
Last few months have just been one big pit of suck, but I’ve gotten this far. Too late to quit now!
Follow up with the doc tomorrow. I usually feel pretty good about that, but this time, eh. Not really.
Turns out my rough estimates for serving quantities of odd items like cashews or sour dough bread butts were ridiculously optimistic.
This will probably help tighten things up a little. I’m still in the “Oh! How much does a green bean weigh!” phase. That’ll probably wear off oh, right around dinner time.
There actually has been some continuing buildup of plaque in my circumflex artey though, which may (very likely) require another angioplasty and stent.
It’s disheartening (no pun intended, but there it is). I’ve really put forth a lot of effort to change dietary habits, get as strong as I could both in cardio and weights, and stick to the treatment plan (meds), but there is still progression of plaque and suffering a lack of blood flow to the area adjacent to the previously damaged tissue.
Next month will be another stress/echo and we’ll go from there, but he seemed very confident that he can access the problemed part, or as he called it an “individual anatomic abnormality”.
I’m going to continue regular exercise (cardio + weights) but likely in a lesser capacity. In fact, I was told today to limit it to light/moderate exertion.
So, all that being what it is, I won’t be participating in the challenge. In the greater scheme of things I will still be doing the same things I would have for it, but certainly with much less intensity.
I’m still trying to sort out a lot of my thoughts on all of this, the past few weeks, past few months, and how I will be proceeding with life in general.
Dude I’m sorry. It sucks. So much of this is genetically determined it’s frustrating. I hope things proceed well from here, but I certainly understand the “throw your hands up” feeling
Yeah. It’s starting to look more like that. As me and my siblings have been fleshing it out, we’re 5 for 5 on this. They all have some form of cardiovascular dysfunction, whether it’s blood pressure or cholesterol problems, or in my case the whole shebang goes kaboom.
With our parents, there was no talk of this. They were gone long before any conversations about stuff like this could take place from other unrelated causes.
Thank you for using some of it with me! BG and I both know how really precious that is!
