It's important to me, anyway.
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Glad you're around to celebrate the sixth anniversary! 
Happy survival Anniversary ...
...did it happen out of the clear blue or were you being treated for HBP?
...did it happen out of the clear blue or were you being treated for HBP?
It was kinda out of the blue since I was only 35, and I've led a squeeky clean life - no booze, no drugs, no smoking, not really over weight. I had just taken a stress test a month earlier and passed. However, I did have high cholesteral and high bloodpressue (on medication for both). Also, my brother, 38 at the time, had an emergency quadruple bypass two months earlier.
Your anniversary is absolutely worth celebrating!!
It sounds like your squeaky clean lifestyle (and your compliance with your medicines?) will keep you around for many, many more anniversaries.
It sounds like your squeaky clean lifestyle (and your compliance with your medicines?) will keep you around for many, many more anniversaries.
Congratulations on the anniversary! How is your heart doing nowadays?
It's the 35th anniversary of my grandmother's heart attack soon. She was in her forties when she got it and was told she does not have long to live - well, guess what, here she is still, a very active and happy lady in her 80's.
Thanks, all. Hopefully I'm doing well. Skai, I appreciate the story about your grandmother. I'm glad she's doing well. I hope you're doing well, yourself, RyanKCR. I'd like to think that in the past 40 years, cardiac care has also improved greatly. Gives me even greater hope.
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Congratulations, SBK! Definitely something to be happy about.
Here's hoping for another 38 years.
J.
Here's hoping for another 38 years.
J.
Definitely important. Congratulations on six years of good health and may you have many more in the future.
It's definitely important to everybody, sbk1234. Congratulations on your survival and here's to your continued good health. You, too, RyanKCR. Modern science becomes better at saving lives every year. 
Glad you're here to celebrate!
You can be thin and still have a bad body composition, and eat really bad food. I'd almost bet if you changed your diet you wouldn't need the meds at all. When I was a teenager, I learned I had a cholesterol level of 210. I immediately just stopped eating certain things like cheese, and most red meat, and my level was down to 160 in just a couple of months.
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What really gets my family is that I eat very poorly but my numbers are excellent. My wife eats much better then I and her numbers keep getting worse. My LDL was 117 and my triglycerides was 40. If I remember correctly my HDL was about 40 too.
Right now I am having rhythm issues with the heart and not a good candidate for transplant but my left ventricle was at a 38% ejection fraction a few years ago and now it is aroun 50-55% (which is normal) even though the right one is getting worse. I'm also about to start hepatitis C treatment because of bad blood I got as a child.
It is really amazing what cardiac science knows. I got to watch part of its growing up. If you want to see an interesting film about the start of heart surgery I highly recomend Something the Lord Made.
Keep well, sbk1234!
You've done really well to have made it this far. Great job!
In July, it'll be Mom's second anniversary of her heart attack in 2007. She's doing well, even though she has chest pains from the sternum wires. She'd get them taken out, but there's no guarantee that she'll stop hurting. So she said to hell with it that she would suffer. She doesn't want to be cut open again and be healing for another six months. I don't blame her either. She smoked like a chimney before her heart attack and then stopped cold turkey when she realized she was in conjestive heart failure. She hasn't picked up a cigerrette since!
