09-17-2017, 12:05 AM
(09-14-2017, 12:46 PM)Wyche Wrote: Yep, you dodged a bullet my friend. I'm glad the Good Lord was watching over you, and made your wife more stubborn than you. Having two stents myself with a 99% blockage in the circumflex, and 30 in the RCA, I know where you're coming from. It hit me at work, and because my grandmother had been through it, I knew immediately what was going on. I couldn't believe it at 32, but I knew. I chewed the aspirin, took a co-worker's BP pill and dialed 911. Nine years later, after some drastic lifestyle changes due to this and finding out I was diabetic as a result, I'm doing ok. I had ignored the signs of diabetes, because...like you...you don't go to the doc if a bone is not sticking out, and it almost cost me dearly. At least two years of extremely high blood sugar had wreaked havoc on my bloodstream, my liver was dumping fats, sugars, and cholesterol into my arteries and clogged two of them off. You combine that with what was a stressful job at the time, and chain smoking Marlboros....it's a wonder it wasn't worse than it was. They said my blood was like gravy, and couldn't believe I was conscious with a blood sugar reading of over 800.
Heed the doc's advice, and you should be good to go. Godspeed.
Holy man Wyche. I'm happy your ok as well buddy. What are the signs of Diabetes?
