02-25-2012, 11:51
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Originally Posted by tom kelly
Glad you did the right thing and not pass it off as something else.
Recommendation: Get an Appoitment with a Board Certified Cardiologist and more important LISTEN TO & FOLLOW HIS ADVICE; Don't Put It Off. Do it NOW.
Best of luck to you, Tom Kelly
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^^ this is the best advice you're going to get. There are so many simple things they can do nowadays to keep you moving. So glad you're back home and not room temp  the place wouldn't be the same without you.
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02-25-2012, 16:35
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tom kelly
Glad you did the right thing and not pass it off as something else.
Recommendation: Get an Appoitment with a Board Certified Cardiologist and more important LISTEN TO & FOLLOW HIS ADVICE; Don't Put It Off. Do it NOW.
Best of luck to you, Tom Kelly
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In addition to this find a good nutritionist. Make three appointments: initial, 60-days, and one-year out. Make those dietary changes! Managing ones diabetes is 3/4 of the cardiac/vascular battle.
Take your significant other with you to all appointments (for the first year). Patients mistake, mishear, and forget so much. Seriously.
If cardiac rehab is indicated - take full advantage of it as well.
I found that improper diet and exercise led to my cardiac episode - which was preventable. Implementing those changes reversed my CAD (at least numbers wise) in less than six-months.
In choosing your medical professionals - talk to the staff on the floor the facility you were at. Ask them who they would want to manage their health/disease/condition. Seriously.
Good luck and Gods blessing to you and yours. Because walruses are endangered...
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Last edited by MR2; 02-25-2012 at 16:36.
Reason: Inserton of smart @ss remark.
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02-26-2012, 13:11
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Originally Posted by MR2
In addition to this find a good nutritionist. Make three appointments: initial, 60-days, and one-year out. Make those dietary changes! Managing ones diabetes is 3/4 of the cardiac/vascular battle.
Take your significant other with you to all appointments (for the first year). Patients mistake, mishear, and forget so much. Seriously.
If cardiac rehab is indicated - take full advantage of it as well.
I found that improper diet and exercise led to my cardiac episode - which was preventable. Implementing those changes reversed my CAD (at least numbers wise) in less than six-months.
In choosing your medical professionals - talk to the staff on the floor the facility you were at. Ask them who they would want to manage their health/disease/condition. Seriously.
Good luck and Gods blessing to you and yours. Because walruses are endangered...
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All of the above!
Best wishes for a full recovery! 
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02-26-2012, 17:41
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Teddy! You better take care of yourself. I have a case of PBR and another of Stag in the friidge. I just need ato find some time in the Little Dude's schedule to deliver them to LA. LD wants to meet a real Green Beret.
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02-26-2012, 19:04
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Teddy! You better take care of yourself. I have a case of PBR and another of Stag in the friidge. I just need ato find some time in the Little Dude's schedule to deliver them to LA. LD wants to meet a real Green Beret.
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We need to rendezvous in Big Teddy's VFW and surround him with SF, instead of all those Jarheads he has to talk to!
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02-26-2012, 20:03
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We need to rendezvous in Big Teddy's VFW and surround him with SF, instead of all those Jarheads he has to talk to!
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Really sounds great,but as you know right now my only concern is Maggie and her terminal condition.........I was more worried about her when I was in the hospital than my own situation........ Thank you God,because my grand-kids and daughter really came thru for me.......I know that if any thing really would happen to me I can now count on them to be there........ I really appreciate what you guys would do for me and if my situation were any different,but again with Maggie's severe depression over the loss of her hair from that damn Chemo,I'd have loved to have us go in as a Band of Brothers......... Maybe someday,maybe...........  
Big Teddy 
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02-27-2012, 17:46
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Damn, Teddy, I go away for a weekend and you go and watch a Toshiro Mifune movie, drink saki, sing karaoke off-key (as if there's any other way to do it), get a headache, belch, pass gas, scratch yourself, go flirt with young ER and CCU nurses, take two aspirin, and try and leave us with the bar tab. What's up with that? Although if I lived in a place like Louisiana and was surounded by nothing but wannabe Francophiles and ex-Marine special forces supply sergeants and underground messkit repair specialists (  ), I'd probably be pretty morose, too.
On a serious note, you've gotta quit believing you're really a walrus and change your diet - obviously eating all those BP certified safe shrimp, crabs, tube worms, soft corals, tunicates, sea cucumbers, and non-bearded clams aren't good for you.
I'm glad you're OK - now, back to work.
Richard
PS - Take care, ya ol' walrus!
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02-28-2012, 09:05
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Glad to hear that things are okay, your wisdom and musings are integral to the personality of this site. Please listen to the doctors as your peers mention above; docs occasionally know things beyond how to line their pockets.
I am close and have time, so I am available should you need anything. PM out with contact info.
All the best.
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Rest in Peace, Sev, Big Teddy
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02-28-2012, 10:20
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docs occasionally know things beyond how to line their pockets.
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Wow - not sure where that came from. Although, if your exposure has been limited to cardiologists, dermatologists and plastic surgeons, I could perhaps understand.
As for the rest of the us docs, most of us have no aspirations to be business magnates or politicians, so lining our pockets is not our top priority.
Glad to hear you're still kicking Big Teddy - a silent heart attack is just as serious as any other heart attack, but you don't have any symptoms (chest/arm pain, sweating, light-headedness, etc) to tell you it's happening/happened, so you don't realize the need for urgent medical care.
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02-28-2012, 12:57
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QP Big Teddy,
Hang in there! And, like the previous posters, listen to your doctor(s), they do know things. Stay healthy and good luck!
v/r
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02-28-2012, 18:22
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The marker Troponin and ECG helped diagnosis my "Silent" Heart Attack........
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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02-28-2012, 18:29
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but again with Maggie's severe depression over the loss of her hair from that damn Chemo,I'd have loved to have us go in as a Band of Brothers......... Maybe someday,maybe...........
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Big Teddy there are organizations that will help Maggie, some even offer free wigs. My aunt and uncle had a business of providing wigs to cancer patients, and charged very little. If you need/want info you just let me know. I realize a wig won't replace her hair, and it is very upsetting, but they make very realistic wigs these days.
Remember that care givers need respite too. Don't feel guilty about that.
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02-28-2012, 19:34
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Take care, Big Teddy. Prayers out for your continued recovery. You are way too tough to go - being a hockey playing SF guy!
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02-28-2012, 19:49
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Take care, Big Teddy. Prayers out for your continued recovery. You are way too tough to go - being a hockey playing SF guy!
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TrapLine
You just said the magic word "Hockey",now I'm just waiting until the next line change.......
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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02-29-2012, 09:42
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Be careful, Teddy!! Glad you are getting things treated...
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