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What type of cardiomyopathy do I have?
cardiac cath. revealed non obstructive CAD. moderate CAD, mild to moderate cardiomyopathy, EF35-40%, chronic a-fib with very low ventricular response, VVIR pacemaker installed , Synthroid75mcg, Lanoxin 0.25mg daily and 0.375 mon, Wed, Fri, Enalapril2.5 mg twice daily, Atenolol 12.5mg twice daily and Coumadin 5mg daily and 7.5 on Sundays. echocardiogram dimensions Aortic root 37mm, aortic valve opening19mm, left atrium 44mm, LV end diastolic dimention 48mm, end systolic dimension 31mm, Septal thickness 9mm, posterior wall thickness 10mm. The overall impressio was normal left ventricular size, function,regional wall motion, the ejection fraction lower limits of normal, approx 55%, left atrium is mildly dilated,the aortic root, right heart chamber are not dilated, aortic sclerosis with no stenosis in any of the four valves seen, there is moderate 2+mitral insufficiency, there is moderate 2+ tricuspid insufficiency, mild to moderate1-2+ pulmonic insufficiency. My present Cardiologist says I have Primary Cardiomyopathy. Heavy drinker for thirty years and would tend to believe that my condition could more properly be discribed as Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy. I also remember the surgeon who performed the heart cath commenting on an enlarged septum! Is a reading of Septal thickness 9mm considered enlarged? and if so would my condition be better described as hypertrophic. I am very confused. Please help. Thank You~~~~Mark
Dear Wilson,
Well well, do you know that you are a very spiritual person?
Love ***IANNA***
Well well, do you know that you are a very spiritual person?
Love ***IANNA***
I thought this was the HEART forum. When did it become an anger-management forum? Keep your political-religious **** to yourself or post it some place where it will be appreciated. You need to calm down before you have a PAC attack. By the way, your doc is right----you need a day job.
Bravo. (You should charge something for this rant).
I hope the powers-that-be leave your post alone.
I hope the powers-that-be leave your post alone.
The Death of Common Sense
You know, lately I find myself recurringly gripped by an overwhelming desire to smack our entire country upside its collective head.
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but common sense in this country isn't just dead, it's been cremated and Woody Harrelson is smoking his ashes in his lucky skull bong. There is so little common sense today that Thomas Paine is spinning over in his grave so rapidly that they are thinking of hooking him up to a turbine to light up the Vegas strip.
You can't get to your office in the morning without colliding with some idiot who is trying to spawn upstream onto the elevator while everyone else is trying to get off.
You can't get in your car and not run into another idiot who pulls into the gas station with his fuel tank on the wrong side and then has to get instructions from a NASA team at Houston Control to figure out how to maneuver his car so that the tank is on the correct side. And you can't open a paper without reading about a mondo idiot who gets hurt or killed at a railroad crossing because they had to try and beat the train to get home in time to watch Charlene Tilton's salute to porcelain clowns on QVC.
Now, what the **** has happened to us? A chalk outline is slowly being drawn around common sense and most Americans can't even identify the victim. We've gone from a nation of practical-minded, can-do Johnny-Get-Your-Guns and Rosie the Riveters to a bunch of sniveling crybabies who can't take it on the chin without running whining to our lawyers.
Christ, we're so bogged down in procedure, we make Radar O'Reilly look like Henry David Thoreau. You coulple that with a Blanche DuBois-like denial of personal responsibility for the **** in our lives, and it's no wonder we're in a malasie that makes a bout of Epstein-Barr seem like a Laker Girl doing the Watusi after four triple lattes with a Dexatrim chaser.
You know, there's 800,000 lawyers in our country, and many of their livelihoods depend on the fact that we have got no common sense. My theory is that intelligence, like every other resource on this planet, has a finite amount. And as the population increases, the intelligence resource is being stretched thinner than the elastic in Marge Schott's G-string.
For instance, some old lady burns herself on a cup of coffee at McDonald's ans sues for three million dollars because it's not her fault. And she wins. She wins! We have trouble convicting people who actually confess to murder, but this woman is able to take three mil off of McDonald's? If the judge had any common sense, the trial should have gone like "Will the plaintiff please rise? Yeah, it is your fault. You're stupid. Coffee is supposed to be hot. Why didn't you blow on it before you chugged it down like a pledge having his first beer? Get our of my courtroom, you stupid, stupid woman and take your pin-striped parasite lawyer with you. Next case."
Common sense has been defined as the quality of judgment necessary to know the simplest of truths. Well, nowadays simple truths are sighted about as often as Mary Hart on Crossfire.
In the last twenty years we seem to have completely lost the ability to obey the natural laws around us. We no longer recognize things that are shockingly wrong anymore. We can't tell up from down, right from left, absolutely one hundred percent not guilty from double-murdering scumbag guilty. And we are getting stupider. Are we stupid or were we always this stupid?
I watch these TV evangelists on late-night cable channel 66 and see the stadium full of people giving hard-earned money away to some chrome-head, sweat-covered, barking con man dangling eternal salvation in front of these poor bastards like a leash in front of a chihuahua with one kidney.
Well, I'm just shocked at our lack of our common sense. Clearly, this crook couldn't be more full of **** if he were a Porta Potti at the Lollapalooza festival.
Now, to many people the government is the main foundry of not-know-how, turning the raw ore sent to it by votes and tax dollars into cold-rolled sheets of incompetence, which are then used in every aspect of our societal infrastructure. Reports on reports of subcommittees of commissions create a sea of paper that could float Rush Limbaugh's butter dish. All in all, practicality has about as much chance of being served by the federal government as a loud Texan does by a French waiter.
Folks, we don't need more government, we don't need more colleges; we need more schools that teach common sense. We don't need any more Einsteins who can tell you the principle of microwave cooking but can't figure out how to plug one in. I've always said, "Give someone a fish and they'll eat for a day, teach someone not to run a bass lure through their testicle and they will be able to fish for the rest of their life."
Where does common sense come from? It's slapped into the back of your head by your mother when you try and touch the hot stove. It's the Oldsmobile crest branded onto your forehead for all of eternity beacuse you didn't want the seat belt to wrinkle your new shirt. Common sense is what gores you in the *** in Pamplona when you dress up like Topo Gigio and run in front of the bulls down a street that's narrower than Newt Gingrich's mind.
And most important, common sense is admitting when you don't have a big closer. I don't have a big closer.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
You know, lately I find myself recurringly gripped by an overwhelming desire to smack our entire country upside its collective head.
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but common sense in this country isn't just dead, it's been cremated and Woody Harrelson is smoking his ashes in his lucky skull bong. There is so little common sense today that Thomas Paine is spinning over in his grave so rapidly that they are thinking of hooking him up to a turbine to light up the Vegas strip.
You can't get to your office in the morning without colliding with some idiot who is trying to spawn upstream onto the elevator while everyone else is trying to get off.
You can't get in your car and not run into another idiot who pulls into the gas station with his fuel tank on the wrong side and then has to get instructions from a NASA team at Houston Control to figure out how to maneuver his car so that the tank is on the correct side. And you can't open a paper without reading about a mondo idiot who gets hurt or killed at a railroad crossing because they had to try and beat the train to get home in time to watch Charlene Tilton's salute to porcelain clowns on QVC.
Now, what the **** has happened to us? A chalk outline is slowly being drawn around common sense and most Americans can't even identify the victim. We've gone from a nation of practical-minded, can-do Johnny-Get-Your-Guns and Rosie the Riveters to a bunch of sniveling crybabies who can't take it on the chin without running whining to our lawyers.
Christ, we're so bogged down in procedure, we make Radar O'Reilly look like Henry David Thoreau. You coulple that with a Blanche DuBois-like denial of personal responsibility for the **** in our lives, and it's no wonder we're in a malasie that makes a bout of Epstein-Barr seem like a Laker Girl doing the Watusi after four triple lattes with a Dexatrim chaser.
You know, there's 800,000 lawyers in our country, and many of their livelihoods depend on the fact that we have got no common sense. My theory is that intelligence, like every other resource on this planet, has a finite amount. And as the population increases, the intelligence resource is being stretched thinner than the elastic in Marge Schott's G-string.
For instance, some old lady burns herself on a cup of coffee at McDonald's ans sues for three million dollars because it's not her fault. And she wins. She wins! We have trouble convicting people who actually confess to murder, but this woman is able to take three mil off of McDonald's? If the judge had any common sense, the trial should have gone like "Will the plaintiff please rise? Yeah, it is your fault. You're stupid. Coffee is supposed to be hot. Why didn't you blow on it before you chugged it down like a pledge having his first beer? Get our of my courtroom, you stupid, stupid woman and take your pin-striped parasite lawyer with you. Next case."
Common sense has been defined as the quality of judgment necessary to know the simplest of truths. Well, nowadays simple truths are sighted about as often as Mary Hart on Crossfire.
In the last twenty years we seem to have completely lost the ability to obey the natural laws around us. We no longer recognize things that are shockingly wrong anymore. We can't tell up from down, right from left, absolutely one hundred percent not guilty from double-murdering scumbag guilty. And we are getting stupider. Are we stupid or were we always this stupid?
I watch these TV evangelists on late-night cable channel 66 and see the stadium full of people giving hard-earned money away to some chrome-head, sweat-covered, barking con man dangling eternal salvation in front of these poor bastards like a leash in front of a chihuahua with one kidney.
Well, I'm just shocked at our lack of our common sense. Clearly, this crook couldn't be more full of **** if he were a Porta Potti at the Lollapalooza festival.
Now, to many people the government is the main foundry of not-know-how, turning the raw ore sent to it by votes and tax dollars into cold-rolled sheets of incompetence, which are then used in every aspect of our societal infrastructure. Reports on reports of subcommittees of commissions create a sea of paper that could float Rush Limbaugh's butter dish. All in all, practicality has about as much chance of being served by the federal government as a loud Texan does by a French waiter.
Folks, we don't need more government, we don't need more colleges; we need more schools that teach common sense. We don't need any more Einsteins who can tell you the principle of microwave cooking but can't figure out how to plug one in. I've always said, "Give someone a fish and they'll eat for a day, teach someone not to run a bass lure through their testicle and they will be able to fish for the rest of their life."
Where does common sense come from? It's slapped into the back of your head by your mother when you try and touch the hot stove. It's the Oldsmobile crest branded onto your forehead for all of eternity beacuse you didn't want the seat belt to wrinkle your new shirt. Common sense is what gores you in the *** in Pamplona when you dress up like Topo Gigio and run in front of the bulls down a street that's narrower than Newt Gingrich's mind.
And most important, common sense is admitting when you don't have a big closer. I don't have a big closer.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.
Dear wilson,
You're a nice guy, at heart.
I really think so.
You just want a little bit of attention every now and then.
That's ok.
But upsetting people will not give you the attention and respect you so much need.
So relax and give them some space.
Accept them as they come, and they will accept you as you are.
We are all different.
We react differently.
That is what makes us so interesting.
We learn from each other.
Now, imagine we were all the same and react the same, that would be boring!!!
A few months ago I awoke, laid still and 'heard' this:
LOVE ALL,
BE GOOD,
FORGIVE,
THAT's IT.....
I immidiately wrote it down and it is hanging on the wall above my desk, cause I think that this is what life is all about.
Love and Peace my friend, ***IANNA***
By the way, who is 'OPRAH'??(sorry wilson, that was not nice)
You're a nice guy, at heart.
I really think so.
You just want a little bit of attention every now and then.
That's ok.
But upsetting people will not give you the attention and respect you so much need.
So relax and give them some space.
Accept them as they come, and they will accept you as you are.
We are all different.
We react differently.
That is what makes us so interesting.
We learn from each other.
Now, imagine we were all the same and react the same, that would be boring!!!
A few months ago I awoke, laid still and 'heard' this:
LOVE ALL,
BE GOOD,
FORGIVE,
THAT's IT.....
I immidiately wrote it down and it is hanging on the wall above my desk, cause I think that this is what life is all about.
Love and Peace my friend, ***IANNA***
By the way, who is 'OPRAH'??(sorry wilson, that was not nice)
Wilson,
I posted on this forum on several occasions about how I deal with my pacs/pvcs and it is basically the same way you do. I take a magnesium potassium asportate supplement along with an occasional axid and Maalox as needed. The results have been very good.I didn't know anyone else tried the same method but am glad to see that it works for someone else.
dave
I posted on this forum on several occasions about how I deal with my pacs/pvcs and it is basically the same way you do. I take a magnesium potassium asportate supplement along with an occasional axid and Maalox as needed. The results have been very good.I didn't know anyone else tried the same method but am glad to see that it works for someone else.
dave
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