"I'm having chest pains!"
Posted on 08/14/2024 6:00:34 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Common sense is also part of the equation. Taking a largely untested medication is always risky, but especially so when dealing with people who are only interested in exercising power over you and extracting maximum dollars from your wallet.
The biosecurity state is now a natural part of our environment?
Perhaps, remember we didn’t have the internet or 24 hour news back in the mid-70s so it’s hard to say how much difference there really is
We had newspapers and local tv stations that would cover an unusual death
Glad you’re OK.
As for my cardiologist, it happens that he is a family friend, and he has also kept my mother alive for the past dozen or so years, despite her atrial fibrillation. She’s going to be 87 in two months, and is still going strong, both physically and mentally, and I attribute a lot of that to his knowledge and caring. I know that I am in good hands. However, I am not just going to take aspirin, Plavix and a statin, as I have been since my heart attack. I will take a statin for a while, and generally follow instructions regarding all medications and lifestyle changes, but I do not see the point of being on a statin for the rest of my life when statins have a number of rather bad potential side effects. I prefer to delve down into the actual cause of atherosclerosis, which I believe to be inflammation of the endothelium, which causes damage (and that inflammation is caused by excessive consumption of carbohydrates - we simply did not evolve to have anywhere near as much as the modern diet provides). Plaque is the body’s way of healing that damage. So if you can stop the inflammation, or at least significantly ameliorate it, you can significantly slow down the formation of plaques. So when I go to see him this afternoon, I am absolutely going to be very polite, but I am going to challenge him a little bit with some questions.
Good call, it obviously saved your life. That, to me, is the biggest challenge - going from being seemingly fit to having a problem, and recognizing that it is actually a problem, not just you not being tough enough. You can’t tough your way out of blood clots or clogged arteries, I don’t care if you’re Clint Eastwood or Chuck Norris. You have to have the, humility and good judgment to get yourself checked out, no matter what your pride says. Believe me, I have never been to the emergency room before in my life, except to visit other people. I am 63, but I didn’t expect anything of this sort for at least 10 more years. Well, sometimes throws you a curveball, and you just have to be prepared for it.
As an aside, my father died of a sudden heart attack at age 79. He had been told for years that he needed to have a stent, or perhaps several of them. Ironically, he was supposed to go to a new cardiologist the week after he died, and I am sure that he would’ve been told no uncertain terms to go in for a very thorough check up, which would certainly have resulted in him getting stents. I think that he could easily have lived another 8-10 years. His father before him also died of a sudden heart attack, at age 76. So I have a family history, and that is part of the reason why I decided to have my wife call 911, rather than trying to tough it out and get carried away in a body bag.
Not if you lived in a rural area like I did growing up, the death of the high school football player was known outside of the little town of maybe 1500 people
My point is unless you lived in a large city or played at least in college or the NFL, nobody really would know a high school player died unexpectedly
The article posted about a player from Palatka, FL dying, Palatka is a town of maybe 10,000 people, in the 1970s nobody outside of Palatka would have known about the incident much less the audience of FR talking about it
Good for you to make that call! It definitely saved your life.
I had to laugh...you wrote “I am 63, but I didn’t expect anything of this sort for at least 10 more years.” I turned 73 just two weeks ago today!
Yes, you really don’t expect it. It’s the “can’t happen to me” syndrome.
Jab a rooney
“No Water, it will toughen you up”
Yep, exactly...AND salt pills. SMH.
Also: “you just got your bell rung”.......now we know those are actually concussions to one degree or another.
In boot camp in 1981, not much. Listen to the radio, write letters, read (I suppose they let them go to the base library). Maybe they got leave to go home for a couple of weeks.
Yeah
But if anyone wanted to do the digging, its all in the national mortality stats
Its just easier to find out now
And what many docs are saying now because they can access that info is that its higher now than in the past
JABBED, without a doubt.
I.e...no foul play...
When autopsy results , chemistry study, tox. Screen results come back....we will know more..
Assuming the kid was a decent bloke.....tragic....
He could have had dangerous friends or enemies...
I think cdc says about 12,000 adolescent 15-19 years old died in 2022 in USA.....tragedies all around the place.
If they put natural causes as the immediate cause of death on the death certificate, then something suspicious is going on.
Natural causes is not to be entered as the immediate cause of death on DCs.
Thanks.
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