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NickD on Sun February 18, 2007 8:36 PM User is offline

Something happened to me this morning, have been admitted to the hospital and will be here all day tomorrow for tests.

They gave me an old notebook to keep me quiet but having a haRD TIME WITH it.

Please keep me in your prayers.

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Chick on Sun February 18, 2007 8:39 PM User is offlineView users profile

You will certainly be in mine buddy...You're in the right place if you have problems...Keep us up to date...


PS: Nick I'm going thru some scary stuff myself right now, waiting for tests, each of which is discouraging, so I know how you feel...Keep your family close and let us know everything thats going on...My prayers are with you...

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TRB on Sun February 18, 2007 9:48 PM User is offlineView users profile

We sure will keep both of you in our prayers. While I'm not in the hospital Doc wants me on an insulin pump. I really do not want to have a device plugged in me all the time! But it will help control the diabetes better than I am doing on my own.

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Chick on Sun February 18, 2007 10:09 PM User is offlineView users profile

Tim, you have to do what is best for you. And WHEN you are told to do it. You are also in my prayers my friend...

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TRB on Sun February 18, 2007 10:18 PM User is offlineView users profile

I know but I hoping to work harder on keeping it in check without the pump.

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Karl Hofmann on Mon February 19, 2007 3:16 AM User is offlineView users profile

Nick,

Keep your chin up, boy.

I hope that you are up and running again real soon..

Karl

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NickD on Mon February 19, 2007 4:10 PM User is offline

I don't know what to think, about the longest 36 hours in my life outside of the military that never told you where you were going or how long. Was putting in my new kitchen floor yesterday morning, on my hands and knees for an hour, stood up, had burred vision, dizzy feeling, felt very weak, and after about 45 minutes, just wouldn't go away. Woke my wife to take me to emergency, was there about 20 minutes and was okay again. But the doctor insisted I had to stay for tests the following Monday, why can't I go home and come back tomorrow, policy says if I do, won't get these tests done for the next two months.

Got all the tests done for TIA, transient ischemic attack they think I have had, I will pray for Chick as all of my tests including blood diseases came back negative. Bad cholesterol was at the high side of the normal level, so doc is insisting on putting me on Zocor to bring that down to the low side of the normal level and putting me on Aggrenox as an anti-blood clot medication, both expensive, can't reach the VA today, they are closed for President's Day. Did talk to others at the clinic, one said a virus is going around with the same symptoms, been fighting yet another virus for the last week, maybe I got that one, who knows.

But it was scary yesterday when your body does strange things, was told my compressor is good but maybe have some blackdeath in my system that requires a filter, but looks like I will be taking magic in a can instead.

My sister-in-law, ten years younger than me died suddenly last month with some kind of virus, was a shock to all of us, especially my brother, so you just don't know. We all know we have to die sooner or later, though yesterday, my time was coming, Mitch died suddenly of a stroke, that was a shock to all of us.

Back home again, no follow up appointments, the floor is the way I left it, did think about death like I never thought about it before, but didn't reach any conclusions, this whole subject confuses me, why we are here and what our future is, if any. But do know, this is the best I have ever had it with a darling wife, and not ready to kick the bucket just yet. Like I have a choice.

mhamilton on Mon February 19, 2007 5:44 PM User is offlineView users profile

I hope you are feeling better... those emergency rooms are no fun.

I will be keeping all of you in my thoughts.

-Michael

Tennessee_Timmy on Mon February 19, 2007 11:28 PM User is offlineView users profile

Thursday will be exactly a year since my heart attack, and now this from Nick and Chick, as well as Tim. February is proving to be a rough month.

You guys take care of yourselves and do what your doctors say. Get better.

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bohica2xo on Tue February 20, 2007 3:37 AM User is offline

Nick:

I am wishing you a speedy recovery, I know just how much fun hospitals are...

I guess I must have been driven on salted roads like your old honda - the compressor is good, the system clean... but the corrosion keeps coming back. The last dose of radiation seems to have stopped it this time.

Get well my friend.

Brad




Tim:

The pump is not such a bad thing. The first one I saw was in 1986, on a co-worker. He said it was a lot better to have a more constant delivery, and he had been poking himself since childhood. My endocrinologist wears a pump, and he is about sixty - I would think he has as much choice as anyone. Listen to your docs, they really want you to live longer (and keep them well fed!)

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NickD on Tue February 20, 2007 9:04 AM User is offline

I feel everyone has to learn their own body and get the best information possible and the most difficult part, learning how to communicate with your doctor.

I am seeing my regular neurologist tomorrow for another round of botox injections, my face was hit pretty hard in that accident 12 years ago now and have HFS, hemi-facial spasms that the botox calms down. Made this appointment a month ago. Will get his assessment, the neurologist on call said TIA and really urged me to get on aggrenox and zocort instantly and gave me a couple of samples. Very expensive meds, I called the VA yesterday and they were closed due to Presidents day, so no panic there.

I don't want to play games with my life, never heard of TIA, but read several sites about it and how dangerous it was, thing is, I never had any of the four symptoms listed, not even one, my doc did run all the recommended tests, all came back negative. Read the key purpose of aggrenox and it's key purpose if for people that cannot tolerate aspirin. Ha, after taking that sample aggrenox last night, swore my stomach was going to blow apart, I do not feel that I can tolerate aggrenox, another bad side effect of this medication is headaches, and had a hell of a headache last night to boot. So I should spend 150 bucks for that?

I find this carotid arteries plugging troublesome, had a complete body scan for cholesterol and they found none, but they don't do the carotid arteries, that is done in another department, I am the kind of guy that asks why and never did get an answer. Person doing the test is not allowed to talk, but did get out of her with trick questions, I am no where near requiring surgery, she has to give the results to the doctor and the doctor gives me those results, he kind of shifted the topic when I hit him hard with that question. So why am I taking fish pills, did quit the wine every night, alcohol and me do not get along. This has bugged me ever since I heard of it, did have relatives that died from strokes.

My own feeling is that with the struggle I had with my carpet, a got a facial spasm that wouldn't go away giving me double vision, could close either eye with perfect vision, and felt my right eye was the culprit. But go into emergency explaining that problem but hear nothing about TIA. least all the blood diseases that cause this, the cholesterol count, scanning and other tests all came back negative. So should I be spending 300 bucks extra a month for pills I don't need. Get so tired of hearing risk factors, already skeptical about suffering with severe headaches for twenty years when after I dug into it myself, found that the medications I was taking were the cause of all my problems. I put myself through a very painful dry out period, and the headaches went away, never to come back.

Most difficult thing about doctors, is trying to find one that will listen to you. The guy I am seeing tomorrow is pretty good, known him for years, can't wait to hear what he has to say.

My blood pressure monitored for the 36 hours was high for me ranging from 10-50 counts high. Using these electronic testers, since the machine was there and was bored, played with it giving give minute cycles, with ten consecutive readings, got ten different readings. Mentioned this to the nurse, was told it was an old machine, so why are they using that?

HECAT on Tue February 20, 2007 2:28 PM User is offline

Nick, Chick, Tim, Timmy, & Bohica

You guys need to grow up!!
You can't "run and gun" like teenagers forever!!

Seriously guys, please follow your doctor's advice and get well soon.
Sounds good, now if I could only follow my own advice (as I sneak outside for a smoke).

Nick, younger wives can be hazardous to your health, be careful.










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Chick on Tue February 20, 2007 2:38 PM User is offlineView users profile

"Nick, younger wives can be hazardous to your health, be careful. "
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Thanks Hecat, as for that statement, my doctor told me having sex with much younger women can be "fatal"...But, hey, she dies, she dies.....

Just finished up another test today..ultrasound..Looking for the mass that it is spreading from...Next week or so, colonostopy..I'm sure I'm going to love that (saved that for last) ....Ochhh Finding a doctor that will take my insurance and do it in the office/clinic is the trick, so I may just have to suck it up and have it done in the hospital...A place I swore I wouldn't go again after my bypass surgery....Oh well, life goes on.....

Nick, take care of yourself and watch for those signs to re-appear..Could have been a one time thing, but don't wait if it happens again....



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NickD on Tue February 20, 2007 4:09 PM User is offline

I had my first and only colonoscopy about three weeks ago, my first issue was to find a doctor that kept up with the times as I read negative results using golitely, have to drink a gallon of that salt water. Read about people that never had kidney problems before, but did after.

In Venezuela, they use CB Fleet, about 8 ounces of the stuff, couldn't find a doctor that buys that routine, so settled on taking 30 senna tablets over a three hour period. Had to fast for over 24 hours, but didn't feel like eating anything anyway, but the senna kept on working a full week afterwards, had to use both Imodium and Prilosec to get back to normal.

Chick, you like brake fluid, LOL, but don't know if I would feel safe in trying that. The actual colonoscopy was getting an IV that got the shot, doctor said I should be out when he counts to twenty, last number I recall is eight, woke up about an hour or so later and it was done, doc said I was perfect, found nothing. I don't recall anything about the procedure, was out like a light. My son with Crohn's had many of these, at times in a rush, no flushing, something Hecat may want to look into, just gave him an enema and dug in, sometimes to quick when it was an emergency, was there and heard him scream.

My next colonoscopy is scheduled 2017, ha, if I am still around, still feel very strongly that all I had was a facial spasm, nothing to do with a stroke, with all that poking and testing, something should have shown up. Did get a return call from the VA, the only way I can get a prescription from them is to be seen by one of their doctors, have an appointment set up in two weeks, here we go again.

Made a comment to one of the nurses about WI license plate stickers, with a car like my Supra that I had for about 18 years now, had to use a heat gun to remove a stack of those stickers as the pile was getting a foot long, ha, or so. Same with all the bandages put on my arms, pile was getting quite thick. When I took a shower getting home yesterday, found all kinds of electrodes glued to my body they never took off. I should be so sloppy in my own work.

Chick on Tue February 20, 2007 4:22 PM User is offlineView users profile

Well Nick, I think brake fluid or laquer thinner with "Hecats" DIY'er flush gun should do the trick..
Talking about Senna, I have to take three or four with every meal for the past four months, and still struggle to go..Thought it was just my hernia causing it, which also got larger......I always wait to long, so I can't bitch about it..... As far as the dizziness, the reason I say stay on top of it, I was living with my son and daughter in law at the time, got up from a chair fast, and got dizzy and fell back into the chair..Thought nothing of it.(hey, I'm not a doctor, and my doctor can't fix cars) .But my daughter-in-law made a call to my daughter who is an RN and she made an appointment with a doctor without telling me..showed up at the house and told me we were going to the doctor..Hard to fight with your daughter... Next thing I know I'm in the hospital, stress test, catherization and quad bypass...So I do seem to "hesitate" telling them anything...But last doctor visit the doctor noticed I was losing weight fast..And here we are...Can't blame anyone but myself...But however it goes, it is what it is....I also have a young girlfriend. so all I ask is that I'm coming when i'm going....

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TRB on Tue February 20, 2007 4:34 PM User is offlineView users profile

Too many trips to the shore!

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NickD on Tue February 20, 2007 4:58 PM User is offline

In your case Chick, I am thankful to your daughter-in-law for being so insistent because I for one would like to see you around for awhile. I was ready to leave emergency Sunday morning, but my wife said please, baby, LOL, she calls me baby and she was there to hear the doctor say that all the tests came back negative. Now if there was something wrong and I said no to some odd 36 hours of torture, would have felt very bad. She also insisted on the colonoscopy and made the appointment. She has a history of colon cancer in her family and gets one herself at least once per year and thinks nothing of it, ha, me, I am a big baby, probably why she calls me that.

She was getting like other WI women in putting on the pounds, shot up to 144, but said hold on, started watching her calories, and mine, exercise and now down to 121, told her to stop there, don't want her to disappear or may have to put lead in her shoes so she doesn't blow away.

Nice to have friends and relatives that care, yeah, had to have my prostate checked to, have to keep certain parts operational, LOL. Did read about a botox alternative to HFS, but threw me for a loop, they drill a quarter size hole behind your eye that corrects the spasm, now that doesn't make a bit of sense to me, unless that lets the evil spirits out. But what fun is life without a bit of evil? LOL.

Chick on Tue February 20, 2007 7:00 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Too many trips to the shore!


No more trips to the shore Tim, she moved in here...maybe thats half of my problems....

Enough of that now.....Thats "our" little secret....


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Edited: Tue February 20, 2007 at 7:01 PM by Chick

HerkyJim on Tue February 20, 2007 8:05 PM User is offline

Sorry to hear about your ordeal Nick. I'll bet your own neurologist will be more reassuring. I had a lot of dealings with docs a few years back. One thing I found out is you need to be well-informed. Leave it all up to them, and you are likely to be undertreated or overtreated. Docs are like pilots in a way. My bag was flying. Trained and evaluated lots of them. They all have a license, a current medical, and meet currency requirements. But there can be considerable differences in the skills and knowledge levels.

TIA--transient ischemic attack. Insufficient blood flow for a while. The carotid scan is just ultrasonography. Ultrasound. Withe color doppler flow mapping. I think you could google it and read the details. This ought to keep you busy for a while...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?itool=abstractplus&db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstractplus&list_uids=8605646

Anyway; hang in there, and keep posting. Always informative and interesting. Right on most of the time too!

Edited: Tue February 20, 2007 at 8:58 PM by HerkyJim

TRB on Tue February 20, 2007 8:28 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Too many trips to the shore!

Enough of that now.....Thats "our" little secret....

I don't even know what you are typing about!

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Chick on Tue February 20, 2007 8:55 PM User is offlineView users profile

atta boy.......

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TRB on Tue February 20, 2007 9:12 PM User is offlineView users profile

Hang in there Chick, as you are a true friend! Who I would miss a whole bunch if you were not around to keep me straight!

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NickD on Wed February 21, 2007 12:17 PM User is offline

Just got back from seeing my own neurologist, couldn't commit whether I had a TIA or not as he didn't see me, sounds fair enough, but the facial spasm sounded more likely. Said to forget the aggrenox, with my history of headaches would pay a stiff price and just to take an enteric 325 mg aspirin per day as a preventative. So I picked up a bottle of 100 for 4 1/2 bucks, but maybe I don't even need the coating, never had problems with aspirin before.

Have to leave it up to the VA doctor regarding the Zocor, wife could buy this off the shelve in Venezuela for a buck and a half, more than 100 times as much here, same brand, same place of manufacture, so why are we treated as kids in the USA and getting screwed at the same time. Have to worry about the Zocor eating away at my liver that requires frequent lab tests and with my luck with meds, that will probably happen. Love a field that cures one problem and causes a hundred others.

My newest daughter-in-law a very nice young lady with a photographic memory that recently graduated with high honors from a pharmacy school said that aggrenox is never prescribed as a long term medication. She has a good point as had solid pharmacology for six years, where MD's only get a semester or two. She said aggrenox is only prescribed for five days with coumadin as the side effects of aggrenox and expense are too great and it takes five days for the coumadin to become effective. Since I have three other kids that are doctors, do no for a fact that doctors do not get the education that a pharmacist gets, so why can only doctors prescribe medications and pharmacist cannot?

Ha, we may like to consider our Mexican and Latin American neighbors as being illiterate, but at least they can walk into any drug store and buy any prescription drug they want, so much about American freedom we keep on hearing about.

Finally, both our clinic and hospital went completely smoke free, my wife's co workers have to walk out two blocks for a smoke now. While sitting in my neurologist's office, had a perfect view of a hundred foot high incinerator bellowing out black smoke burning all the plastics and people parts. So how can they say they are smoke free? Doesn't anyone besides me get a bit tired of living with a bunch of hypocrites?

Was in the next town yesterday doing airport work near the WI river getting sick from seven smoke stacks from a paper mill, that company also states their plant is smoke free, feel hypocrites is too kind of a word for these A--H---'s.

ice-n-tropics on Thu February 22, 2007 4:09 PM User is offline

Well Friends,
Sorry to hear that TIM'S BAND OF BROTHERS has so many physical problems, but we are the stronger for sharing and strengthened with each other's support and caring understanding. For March I'll be gone, traveling for 3 A/C clinics including Brazil, so don't any body leave this journey until you have the better ticket for passage with Jesus.
Here's my firm belief from the Bible which has proven to be historically accurate and wise beyond sensible dispute.
The Bible says all who receive Christ have eternal life. that through trusting Christ's sacrifice as the only payment for our sins and believing in His resurrection (just like the more than 500 people who saw Him), we have eternal life after our body dies and our spirit/soul goes to be with Him (wherever he is)
John 1:12 As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name
Romans 5:8 God demonstrates His love for us that while we were sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 2:8-9 By grace we are saved through faith, not by our works, it is the gift of God...

"The witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may KNOW that you have eternal life (1 John 5:11-13).
I thank God that (even though I don't have a decent testimony of a good clean life) Christ is in my life and He will never forsake me (no matter how much I screw up) (Ref Hebrews 13:5).
Even though my past life doesn't reflect my present enthusism for Jesus, I hope this is well received and these Bible truths are my prayer for deep and lasting strength to FINISH WELL for each of you BROTHERS,
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TRB on Thu February 22, 2007 5:55 PM User is offlineView users profile

Just got back from the kidney doc and he says things have not gotten any worse. Kidney is still working at 100 percent. Whatever number that has them a little concerned has not changed.

Ice you fit in nicely around here so I guess you are one of us also!

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