These guys were pretty good, 48 hour turn around.

Emmeran wrote:

Decided liven things up with a heart attack - free valium!!

Are you really my cousin Larry?  Actually, I doubt it.  Larry had a heart attack over the weekend also.  But, he didn't get the short turn around.  He got the chest crack and bypass.  I can't believe they just turned you loose.  Did they stint you?

Hope it was as mild as it sounds, Em.  I got a cardiac work up not long ago, right after a snake bite (copperhead).  They tell me I had a mild heart attack some time ago.  I never knew it happened.  I didn't even get any valium.

Emmeran wrote:

Rotor rooter via wrist and stint.

Does anyone else see the hilarity of telling a High-Street denizen to take better care of themselves...

Now that I know you are going to live, can I go ahead and claim some responsibility for raising your blood pressure?

fnord wrote:

Emmeran wrote:

Does anyone else see the hilarity of telling a High-Street denizen to take better care of themselves...

I'm certainly not going to tell you to "straighten up and fly right", but I will make a few suggestions that may put off the Big One that does you in. Take krill oil capsules to increase your HDL. Take Slo-Niacin; it will increase your HDL, reduce the amount of LDL produced by your liver, and also lower your blood pressure by dilating your blood vessels. All of us enjoy messing with your head and want to enjoy this pleasure for as long as possible!

And, please, eliminate sugar from your diet.  Sugar kills.

Hell, I'll pitch in.

Don't eat anything white ever again.  White rice, white pasta, white bread, white sugar.  None of it.  Over processed food is possibly one of the worst things we have done to ourselves as a species.

Put kale in every food you eat.  One, that shit is insanely healthy - I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.  Two, it tastes just shitty enough to make you eat less food (hence put it in EVERYTHING) but not shitty enough to make you give up and go back to Mickey Dee's.  Seriously, I can't say enough about how much better I feel since this fucking flowerbed ornamental entered my dietary lexicon, and I seriously hate the stuff.

Now here's where I go all tin foil Dodin Bouffant.  If you seriously want to turn your overall well being around, then give this some thought.  Eat only food you recognize.  What I mean by this is that when you buy it, you should be able to easily recognize the plant it came from or that it is a recognizable portion of animal flesh.  What you do with it after than is your concern, although obviously monitor your salt intake.  So flour is pretty much out unless you want to mill that shit - sugar too, and unless you do the grind yourself, hamburger. You follow me on this?  It takes some adjusting, the hardest part for me being the reduction in sodium.  I love salty food.

And I'll be honest, I cheat on this at least once a week.  But I don't feel guilty at all...

I used to be of the mindset that it was stupid to try and extend my life through healthy living if I was miserable missing out on all that great food.  My kids finally convinced me, mainly by running my ass ragged doing everyday shit.  After I started moderating my diet, I realized that I actually felt younger.  So now I feel better than I did 5 years ago, and I still occasionally eat chips & cheese while drinking margaritas.

Oh yeah, hope you're feeling better...

Hey, I like Kale, and fuck you Em, I want you around you asshole, got it?

Don't forget to have your chakra re-aligned on a regular basis, and always make sure to check your horoscope before leaving the house.

I do want to add that the oddest symptom of all was that the evening before the attack I was experiencing extreme euphoria, nothing could make me stop smiling.  I seem to recall having read about that before, enough so that I mentioned it to Melons, anyone else heard of that?

Make sure someone knows to come here and tell us if none of this shit works.

Hey, someone had to be that guy.

whosasailorthen wrote:

XregnaR wrote:

Eat only food you recognize.  What I mean by this is that when you buy it, you should be able to easily recognize the plant it came from or that it is a recognizable portion of animal flesh.

So. 

No dark chocolate then? 

Sorry.  No sale on that one.  I loves me cocoa.

As do I.  To para-quote my favorite founding-fat-guy "Everything in moderation, including moderation".

You're very lucky.  The first warning sign of a heart attack is usually death.

I guess it's a matter of the type and the place you go.  I had one completely blocked artery, not sure which one as the morphine was kicking my ass when they showed me.  That was Sunday morning and today (Wednesday) I was out chopping wood.  Technology is moving fast.

Back at it again.  Not an outright attack this go round but discovered damage, they want to go in and look around as they think they might be able to reverse this new problem.

I baled out of the hospital and came home to see my family before I go into surgery this time, can't just go disappearing on them.

Good luck to ya, Em!

Break a leg, Em. 

Seriously. 

Good luck!

You will have to share a seat.

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