Spiky Bugger
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Okay, so obesity is not a moral failing. But bags and bags of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (mine) and a teapoon of salt on every item on your plate and 4-6 teaspoons of sugar in every glass of iced tea (his), and a sufficient quantity of cartons of Marlboros (both) were part of our earlier "actions." And for every action...
Anyway, decades later, we spend way too much time visiting doctors.
~I'm still dealing with SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), not caused by the DS...because most people who suffer from this have not had the DS. But some of the factors that seem to be major contributors to SIBO (taking PPIs, gastric/intestinal surgery) are related to my post-op health issues and the other factors (aging and opioids) are just frosting on the cake.
~a couple of years ago, I was diagnosed with enough (55-60%) right coronary artery blockage to slow me down, but not enough to "qualify" for a stent to keep things open. So I had an echocardiogram last week and will have a nuclear stress test mañana to see if there are changes.
BUT THE IMPORTANT PART, to me, is that Mr. Sue seems to have an ejection fraction of a whopping 35%.
He is 64 years old and had a heart attack 17 years ago. That 35% is the dividing line between "moderate" and "severe" reduction, and makes him a more likely candidate for sudden cardiac arrest. Of course, not everyone in that category does suffer sudden cardiac arrest, but I get to fret anyway. Shit.
I'm way too whiney (and with the SIBO, relatively housebound) to be a widow (I married a younger man expecting that he'd bury me) and my daughter has enough bs to deal with without becoming my primary caregiver.
Anyway, regardless of WHY you eat the equivalent of bags of Reese's, or subsist on salt and sugar, or how often you light up...try to take good care of you in your remaining youth...because youth doesn't last forever but the logical consequences of behaviors seem to stick around forever.
Anyway, decades later, we spend way too much time visiting doctors.
~I'm still dealing with SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), not caused by the DS...because most people who suffer from this have not had the DS. But some of the factors that seem to be major contributors to SIBO (taking PPIs, gastric/intestinal surgery) are related to my post-op health issues and the other factors (aging and opioids) are just frosting on the cake.
~a couple of years ago, I was diagnosed with enough (55-60%) right coronary artery blockage to slow me down, but not enough to "qualify" for a stent to keep things open. So I had an echocardiogram last week and will have a nuclear stress test mañana to see if there are changes.
BUT THE IMPORTANT PART, to me, is that Mr. Sue seems to have an ejection fraction of a whopping 35%.
He is 64 years old and had a heart attack 17 years ago. That 35% is the dividing line between "moderate" and "severe" reduction, and makes him a more likely candidate for sudden cardiac arrest. Of course, not everyone in that category does suffer sudden cardiac arrest, but I get to fret anyway. Shit.
I'm way too whiney (and with the SIBO, relatively housebound) to be a widow (I married a younger man expecting that he'd bury me) and my daughter has enough bs to deal with without becoming my primary caregiver.
Anyway, regardless of WHY you eat the equivalent of bags of Reese's, or subsist on salt and sugar, or how often you light up...try to take good care of you in your remaining youth...because youth doesn't last forever but the logical consequences of behaviors seem to stick around forever.
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