Wellness

[hckynut]

On 6/9/2014 hope-Q said:

Hi John.

You are so smart and very wise not to divulge too much or any information if you think it might cause problems to any poster. I understand exactly what you are and aren't saying and I certainly would take the same position. Good for you !

Still praying that you and Cindy both are improving, and the "babies" are all doing well.

Take care my friend.

hope-Q

Don't overdue it now it might go to my head. :-) Glad you understand my thought processes when it comes to these types of things. Can't tell you how many times when I have an injured hockey player in my adult league they have told me "you are as bad as my mother" when it comes to seeing how they are doing and making sure they do not try to return too soon after an injury. Yes, even the doctors that play in my league.

I care about those I know in real life and offer them my thoughts about what I know and what I think. What they do with it is up to them, to a certain point. If a player I feel is not ready to return after an injury? No way I am going to play in my league until I(and his doctor, which is usually one of our doctors playing here also)feel he is ready to play.

Been doing this for over those 50 years I've mentioned here so often and if I don't have a feel for this stuff by now?

Appreciate you taking the time to add your comments to this thread and I want to sincerely thank you for your concern for Cindy/our babies and myself,

[LilacTree]

On 6/9/2014 hckynut said:

On 6/9/2014 Ford1224 said:

Why am I not understanding this conversation?

Sorry Ford1224

Not sure you were around the last time I wanted to keep something from those that read this forum. The only reason I even brought up the previous event was because someone asked me if I was having any medical problems because I was MIA from here for some time.

I didn't(and don't)want to be specific of the "what" of it because I think many here might have to have this procedure done and did not want to cause undue worry to any one of them. What happened to me was very, very rare and sharing it? I felt the harm would out value what little good it would do for those that go through procedure as do I, which is without worrying. And people like that, as you now, are in a pretty small minority.

The reason I am interested is that I take my BP and pulse every day (which was recommended to me by my doctor . . . after all, I am 76). Before I get out of bed, my pulse is 60-70 at the most. My BP usually runs highest at that point, but it's never high. As I get up and make breakfast and sit down at my computer, my BP goes down (average 117/75 or so) and my heart races, especially after I eat. My pulse rate is always over 100 and sometimes up to 115 or so, and I don't know if that qualifies for tachycardia or not. This goes on for several hours. As the day progresses, if I measure both again (which I rarely do), it seems to normalize in both readings.

It's been almost two years since my last heart workup, which included a chemically induced
stress echocardiogram that I thought was going to kill me. I have had quite a few over the last 20 years and I am always told there's nothing significantly wrong with my heart. So I don't worry about it too much.

As if I need another doctor, I'm wondering if I should go to a cardiologist for the fast pulse rate after eating in the morning. I have it right now . . . BP 125/81, pulse 100. Two days ago BP was 103/68, pulse 86, but that was a little later in the morning. I have suspicions that it has something to do with my adrenal glands because of the prednisone.

Not asking for a diagnosis, by the way.

[sfnative]

I've been hanging around here wondering where this conversation was going to go.

Though I don't know when these boards began, I do know that if you look at my specs it says I joined in 2007, which is actually incorrect, as in 2007 the Q performed a huge reformatting of the boards and those of us that had been around for some time lost that status and were re-stated as members since 2007.

Regardless of this, I've been following John since I first saw his entries, which has been some time. His entries have always been thoughtful and most of the time based on personal experience, those of hockey friends and/or those of physician friends. Sounds good to me.

I believe John to be a truthful person.

Having said that, I need to tell you that I recently retired from a position in which it was my responsibility to have knowledge of 12 surgical specialties in order to provide, arrange and coordinate surgical training for physicians. Believe me, after having performed in this position for years, I can smell a fake a mile a way and John is no fake.

So my advice to his detractors would be to give John a break. John has a very kind heart, is medically complex and now has a wonderful wife, Cindy, who is also medically complex and in the hospital with new clinical challenged. This would be a good time to give John some space and a little love.

~Rebecca

Edited to add that though the above may seem disjointed to some degree, I'm blaming it on pain meds from my total knee. This, however, doesn't alter my view towards the thread's subject.

[esmerelda]

On 6/9/2014 hckynut said:

On 6/9/2014 sophiamarie said:

hckynut(john) said:<br />

I got raked pretty bad some time back when I had a "near death" experience from a certain procedure. Everyone wanted to know what it was but there again I did not see how it would benefit anyone by knowing this.

Like I didn't see THIS coming.......

Ahhhh sophiamarie,

Now you weren't one of the many that had the "rake" out that last time some did not agree with how I handled that one, were you? Glad to see you remembered how I handled a similar thing the last time. I am many things and 1 of them is I always try to be consistent, and how I handled this is the same as the last one, and the one before that and the one before that.

No need for anyone to have a crystal ball to peer into with anything similar to this thread or my reply. In some things I have "rules" in other parts of my life I have "standards" and anyone that knows me well, either in cyber-space or in real life, will tell you it makes no difference who or what you are, my same rules and standards apply to best friends/associates and cyber-friends. The exception, maybe? That would be my wife.

John, I'm not interested in what caused your NDE. I am interested in what the NDE was like. Bright light? Deceased relatives? You know...that kind of thing. Surely you wouldn't mind sharing that.

[esmerelda]

On 6/9/2014 hckynut said:

On 6/9/2014 Ford1224 said:

Why am I not understanding this conversation?

Sorry Ford1224

Not sure you were around the last time I wanted to keep something from those that read this forum. The only reason I even brought up the previous event was because someone asked me if I was having any medical problems because I was MIA from here for some time.

I didn't(and don't)want to be specific of the "what" of it because I think many here might have to have this procedure done and did not want to cause undue worry to any one of them. What happened to me was very, very rare and sharing it? I felt the harm would out value what little good it would do for those that go through procedure as do I, which is without worrying. And people like that, as you now, are in a pretty small minority.

I've heard nurses say bearing down (as in labor or BM) will help the heart rate correct itself. One could start with that.

(I thought I posted this earlier, but I don't see it. Maybe I have some issues of my own. )

ETA...this would be for occasional tachycardia, not a chronic condition.

[sophiamarie]

On 6/10/2014 esmerelda said:

On 6/9/2014 hckynut said:

On 6/9/2014 Ford1224 said:

Why am I not understanding this conversation?

Sorry Ford1224

Not sure you were around the last time I wanted to keep something from those that read this forum. The only reason I even brought up the previous event was because someone asked me if I was having any medical problems because I was MIA from here for some time.

I didn't(and don't)want to be specific of the "what" of it because I think many here might have to have this procedure done and did not want to cause undue worry to any one of them. What happened to me was very, very rare and sharing it? I felt the harm would out value what little good it would do for those that go through procedure as do I, which is without worrying. And people like that, as you now, are in a pretty small minority.

I've heard nurses say bearing down (as in labor or BM) will help the heart rate correct itself. One could start with that.

(I thought I posted this earlier, but I don't see it. Maybe I have some issues of my own. )

ETA...this would be for occasional tachycardia, not a chronic condition.

Correct: That would be the "valsalva maneuver".

As far as what was read in a publication - surely everyone is aware that once it's made public, it's not secret anymore. So, all that blather up above, is just that. Blather.......

Esme: If you posted it earlier, I didn't see it. Are you sure it was on this thread????