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Luce NDs said:
Bad week for the emotions ...

Kid brother operated for aortic bypass ... opened like a fish. Serious stuff for one 20+ years my junior, not quite 50. My sis died at 62 of similar situation.

The situation seems it should have been reversed ... I didn't really expect to get where I was ... makes me question a lot of things!:cautious:

They were both on cholesterol reducing medication and the tests were low ... yet ... completely plugged up. Is there a lesson below the surface ...
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Missed this one. Sorry to hear and I hope the outcome is better for your brother.

There does seem to be a genetic factor to it so I hope your doctor is keeping a watch on you. Mine watches my ticker like a hawk but my last consultation with a cardiologist showed all clear. My mother's family, including her, all died (or probably died) of heart disease. So far, my generation has taken after Dad's family where things are better (his mother had a bypass but Dad, his sister, and his father all had/have healthy hearts).
 
Mendalla said:
Missed this one. Sorry to hear and I hope the outcome is better for your brother.

There does seem to be a genetic factor to it so I hope your doctor is keeping a watch on you. Mine watches my ticker like a hawk but my last consultation with a cardiologist showed all clear. My mother's family, including her, all died (or probably died) of heart disease. So far, my generation has taken after Dad's family where things are better (his mother had a bypass but Dad, his sister, and his father all had/have healthy hearts).
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Quantum science: some relatives died very young ... some once they got by 55-75 ... just kept going ...

As an ancient senior once told me ... there are more difficult things than dying ... like watching your family leave you ...

Some are insensitive to this due to the familial blindness due to competition factor that is raging out of control! Metaphorically a mental conflict! Not seen until looked at from the outside. Sometimes very lonely when the community builds walls ... quite baffling ...
 
Luce, I hope your brother recovers well!
Jae, hopefully some rest will have you feeling better.
 
Thank you @Mendalla @Nancy and @ChemGal. Today I feel wiped out - and I'm being interviewed in 10 minutes time for a preaching gig.

Usually I also suffer with an intense headache post-seizure but today, thankfully, not so much.

Hope your brother recovers soon @Luce NDs
 
Luce, hope your brother finds healing.

Looking forward to joining the B____ Mosque for Prayers and a time of commemoration tomorrow to remember our Muslim neighbours murdered in Quebec City.

Feeling increasingly both distant and distressed with what happens to the south of us.

Deep in the winter blahs.
 
Luce - sending peaceful thoughts and healing for your brother, and for you in this time of uncertainty. Is he nearby?

Hope your interview went well jae.
 
Carolla said:
Luce - sending peaceful thoughts and healing for your brother, and for you in this time of uncertainty. Is he nearby?

Hope your interview went well jae.
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Thanks Carolla. It did. It's for a church that's having students in to preach occasionally. Gives them guest speakers, and gives us students more experience. It's a win-win.
 
@Carolla Brother is in Fredericton too ...

@ Jae Enjoy your journey listen up well? It can be a reciprocate experience ... like RL Stevenson with the point of "x" a non existent spot ... about which everything else revolves ... but also an indeterminate spot as it appears all over the place ... understand the stranger ... could be angles/angels ...

What else can one say from the great state of ignore ?
 
ahhh ... good to hear family is nearby. It is a help at such times to be able to gather, have brief visits, drop off food etc. Hoping he will soon find his way back to enough independence to be able to leave hospital - it's a longer journey to recovery, but I'm always amazed by how well so many people do after these procedures that seem so major. Blessings to all of you.
 
Thanks Tabitha - I'm just sitting here peacefully knitting this evening - so it's nice to have the warmth and crackle of the fire. Busy weekend ahead for me ... good but busy.
 
Carolla said:
ahhh ... good to hear family is nearby. It is a help at such times to be able to gather, have brief visits, drop off food etc. Hoping he will soon find his way back to enough independence to be able to leave hospital - it's a longer journey to recovery, but I'm always amazed by how well so many people do after these procedures that seem so major. Blessings to all of you.
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He has two big zippers .. from solar plexus to groin and splitting down each leg ... awful for his age! Doing well; despising gas problems though ... a complexity due to messing with the viscera ... till things get moving again, the legacy of moving on metaphorically!
 
Zippers are better than the alternative. I dated -well actually was engaged to-a guy with a zipper. They heal quickly. Gas will get better. It's common after surgery.
 
oh yes ... post op gas - painful reality!! The intestinal type can be dispatched effectively by lying on one's left side :oops:; the kind that's intra-thoracic takes much longer to dissipate. Glad to hear he's doing well Luce.
 
Can you believe ... it checked himself out this AM ... silly fart! Some genes there from def ather ... terrified of hospital surroundings ...
 
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