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- By 1spudcat · New reply 1:10 am
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- Laura noted this thread is fizzling and if it were not for her it would be fizzled. For me, I love this easy find post focused on one of the most critical areas we need to address in our lives. I love ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply November 29, 2008
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- Recently, I had not responded to Week Twelve's Throwdown. After reading all the good reports that were shared, I felt that what I had to say would be such a "bummer". Things have not been going well ...
- By Brian · New reply November 28, 2008
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- When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...
- By junimead · New reply November 21, 2008
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- I was sitting at this very computer looking up some silly thing or another when I started to feel faint and get the then ever increasing chest pains. A painfully long trip to the emergency room via ambulance ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply November 14, 2008
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- Wow, ten weeks have passed!!!! Do you believe it!!!! Well enough of the exclamation marks. But isn't it great we have maintained this virtual living room of friends coming together to share our ups and ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply November 5, 2008
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- My Esther Willam's Moment popped up again on this site just like my noodle rocketing out of the water on that day of infamy. I read it again and it made me laugh out loud. It pleases me no end that others ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply November 2, 2008
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- Well as some of you know I have joined the YWCA's aqua-cise classes to keep this heart healing and building collaterals. The instructor suggested if we found the exercises easy to take off our flotation ...
- By mamalaine · New reply October 27, 2008
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- "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. . . . . For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply October 4, 2008
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- In January of 2008 I found this site from reading Kathy Kastan's book. I had reached a point in my recovery were I needed to understand more about what happened to me. I went on Amazon.com and started ...
- By mamalaine · New reply October 1, 2008
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- Hello, Friends, I am still working on completing "My body, myself." In the meantime, I submit a story I wrote for my friends and family a few weeks after my HA. (Sorry, it is a little lengthy.) A Cautionary ...
- By pjalford · New reply September 14, 2008
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- Pat was discharged from the hospital this afternoon!!! The doctors came in and discussed it and decided they couldn't think of a reason to keep her in the hospital for another day or more, so they did ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply September 12, 2008
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- I have been reading all these posts about exercise, people who have lost weight or need to lose weight. So I need to share this post/rant!!!! Most of my life I was such a jock but it had to be a team ...
- By pjalford · New reply September 11, 2008
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- Bill called me around 1:00 PM Tuesday afternoon and said that Pat had come out of surgery around 11:15 AM. He said that the doctor said that everything went as expected - they did the aortic heart valve ...
- By pjalford · New reply September 10, 2008
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- for the rest of my life is that God will never take away my desire to, once I get there, maintain and manage my weight at the level it should be (I'm about 9 pounds from that point) and to stay in shape ...
- By pjalford · New reply September 10, 2008
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- Pat is in surgery as I write this. The surgery was to be on Wednesday morning, but when they were at the pre-op consultation on Monday, they were informed that there was a cancellation (don't know why ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply September 9, 2008
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- Well here we are one week later and I am following Laura's organizational suggestions to get this baby up and running. Basically, I blurted out my feelings and Laura has created a plan of action taking ...
- By pjalford · New reply September 7, 2008
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- Here in Central Mississippi Hurricane Gustav has been more of a nuisance than anything else. My apartment building never did lose power and the only effects we got from him were some wind and rain - the ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply September 2, 2008
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- I know this is not a forum for gallbladder miseries but I know there maybe someone out there that has info. My Dad is also a MI and quad bypass surivivor at 83. I googled and got lots of info including ...
- By 1spudcat · New reply August 28, 2008
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- Someone who knows how much I love animals and all of God's creation sent me this video. It just made my heart smile, so I thought I would send it your way. Hope this cutting and pasting works. It is quite ...
- By pjalford · New reply August 28, 2008
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- I spoke with Bill twice today... The first time he and middle daughter Melody (there are 3) were at the hospital, in the cafeteria, getting something to drink and snack on while waiting for Pat's double ...
