Thread: Mario in Hospital.

Originally Posted by donh54

My DEducator is great. She's stoked with my recent progress losing weight and starting to cut down the medications.
It only took a heart attack to make me sit up and take notice

Gee, Don I would never wish a heart attack on any one, glad to see you made it through as some don't sadly
Cheers, Mario

The quadruple bypass surgery helped a lot! The surgeon reckons the fix could last anything from 5 to 25 years - it's entirely up to me, so I'm shooting for the higher number!
Now I listen to the experts, and don't just nod my head like I used to!

Originally Posted by donh54

My DEducator is great. She's stoked with my recent progress losing weight and starting to cut down the medications.
It only took a heart attack to make me sit up and take notice

A heart attack will do that. It does tend to focus the mind.

Glad to hear you’re making progress. Cutting down the meds can only be a good thing. After much “discussion” with my cardio I was able to drop the beta blockers earlier this year. Can’t tell you how much better that has made me feel.

As for listening to the experts, of course it’s very important you do, but do apply a critical mind to what they say. Medical science is still quite inexact in many ways and everyone is different. Only you have experienced what you are going through, they are going off what they have seen and read.

Case in point is the beta blockers for me. I spent a couple of years on them constantly feeling sick and struggling to excersize. After a couple of months trialling being off them, I was feeling better, excersizing more, my left ventricle had reduced in size and my ejection fraction is the best it’s ever been. After being adament that I must take them my cardio now agrees I’m better off without them.

Point is, listen to their advice but find a solution that works for you.

Cheers,
Jon

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Mick, I have the welfare officer coming out today to access my needs at home and is taking the NDIS application away with her to help me with it.
Just received a another call this morning from the physio therapist asking my permission for a diabetes educator to contact me and my permission for a rehabiltation specialist to make a appoint me for me.
I told her I did go and see a council health run diabetes educator many years ago but stopped seeing her as I couldn't understand her. she was Chinese and had a strong accent and talked an 100kph, ,she would put a clock on the desk to time 1 hour and then started to educate me from the beginning of the Big Bang theory to present time all in an hour. I left confused and thought it was such a waste of time. They also had a dietician who was rretty useless I thought.
She assured me this would not be the case with the hospital's staff she is referring me to.
Cheers, Mario

That's great. My in-laws are being assessed at the moment. They built a house totally unsuitable for retirement 20 years ago and now are stuck in it. Two storey, steep stairs, high maintenance timber, poor insulation so it's cold in winter and hot in summer, high electricity bills etc. Some forward planning could have made a lot of difference

Quote Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Mick, I have the welfare officer coming out today to access my needs at home and is taking the NDIS application away with her to help me with it.
Just received a another call this morning from the physio therapist asking my permission for a diabetes educator to contact me and my permission for a rehabiltation specialist to make a appoint me for me.
I told her I did go and see a council health run diabetes educator many years ago but stopped seeing her as I couldn't understand her. she was Chinese and had a strong accent and talked an 100kph, ,she would put a clock on the desk to time 1 hour and then started to educate me from the beginning of the Big Bang theory to present time all in an hour. I left confused and thought it was such a waste of time. *They also had a dietician who was rretty useless I thought.
She assured me this would not be the case with the hospital's staff she is referring me to.
Cheers, Mario

* Spot-on !

Personally, I'd be reticent in (blindly) following any advice from any "Accredited Dietician" - who is in any way Associated with the ADA, the same ADA that tried to silence / crucify Dr Fettke - and members of it's own "Tribe" who don't kowtow to their 'Official Dietary Advice'. ie, Low fat / High Carb.
"Bullying, mobbing and victimization": Gary Fettke says "enough is enough" - Diet Doctor

Strong words ? You bet. Almost as strong as .... losing a foot, or a leg..or finding that your nerves are not working like they used to...and if you dodge cardiac malfunctions... Alzheimers is still ready to ambush you.
I can appreciate how Ralph Nader was a little bit annoyed with GM, for marketing a car that was - as they knew - unstable and unsafe.

Everyone here who has T2 Diabetes owes it to himself...and Family, to have a look at this stuff. Low Carb / Healthy FATS - LCHF , before your 'Diabetes' progresses through to Heart Disease. Or Worse...

Banting is now being used in Australia to reverse diabetes | Real Meal Revolution

Surprise - Surprise, the recent CSIRO diet is now more aligned with LCHF. - CSIRO backs Low Carbohydrate management of Diabetes | No Fructose

And, if you want to know 'why?' you're feeling confused, the answer is simple. It's not in YOUR interests - compared to the Interest$ of some Big Business - to clearly see the Facts.

Medical Doctors Punished & Silenced for Giving “Unapproved” High Fat Dietary Advice

Here endeth my Rantings.

(Ex) T2 Diabetic
CABG x5

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

That's great. My in-laws are being assessed at the moment. They built a house totally unsuitable for retirement 20 years ago and now are stuck in it. Two storey, steep stairs, high maintenance timber, poor insulation so it's cold in winter and hot in summer, high electricity bills etc. Some forward planning could have made a lot of difference

It's amazing how people won't listen when I tried to tell them, I know of two, around the 60 age, building houses for their retirement that are double storey and will pro'ly be wood cladding!

I'm a bit down and annoyed with he world at the moment. so for those that emailed us there might be delay in a reply. I was in a lot of pain from an old rotator cuff injury from years ago that resurfaced, I had a slap tear. Couldn't sleep unless I lay in thee fetal position with my arms up near my face, I couldn't even roll over in bed Heather had to push me around. Then Number one son decided to share his bad flu with me. 3am in the morning I hobbled to the toilet I was a bit dizzy, then this unbearable pain attached me in the spine, it stopped me in my tracks Frozen I couldn't move ,I think was another nerve compression episode, I was screaming with the pain , all in the household slept through it. Some how I manged to get back to bed and once laying down the pain ease. Endone just took the edge off it. Then the next morning Heather had a nasty fall in the drive way, she is sporting a couple of injuries so my carer is also injured. I haven't left the bad over the last couple of days. so apologies if I am below the radar for a while
Cheers, Mario

Yes I was running to give my son his membership tag as he left it behind and he was on his way to the train to go to the footy (Westcoast). Tripped on rock and I went face first hitting the side of Brendon's car. So swollen nose and top lip, and knees. So I am here keeping the business going just may take a little bit more time to get back to you, but I do put your question and quote first. Regards Heather