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oct 20 th marks 10 years since heart attack

nanamo
  • By nanamo · Posted October 19, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • today marks 10 year anniversary of my heart attack......... a massive one that alot do not survive but i did and here 10 years later to tell my story and LIVE i was 32 young and health so i thought the ...

Two weeks ago I had a heart attack

lacey46
  • By lacey46 · Posted October 19, 2009
  • 22 replies
  • I am at home recovering from a recent heart attack. I discovered that I have CAD. I am struggling with depression now and feelings of anxiety wondering if it will happen again and feeling like my life ...

Home yes But?????

MotorcycleBobbi
  • By MotorcycleBobbi · Posted October 18, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • My daughter is having trouble with her breast's again and her Dr. Just say's who knows what. I told her to call our surgon who did my work. She'll be done with this job she's on on the 23. Then she's ...

social security disablity is so frustrating

nanamo
  • By nanamo · Posted October 18, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • i have been on ssd for 9 years now and every three years i have to do a review of my health to see if i am still eligable its starting to get stupid to me if you ask what part of the doc saying NO SHE ...

WENT TO THE ER.....

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · Posted October 18, 2009
  • 20 replies
  • Hello to all you wonderful people and thankyou for responding my post and offering wonderful advice....as i mentioned in my post a couple of days earlier...my right kidney has been hurting that no amount ...

New

Unhappy
  • By Unhappy · Posted October 17, 2009
  • 14 replies
  • I'm new to this website and I'm in need of support and inspiration at this point. I am 24, and I had a double bypass on April 8, 2009. I have 2 children, one of which is a 7 month old baby. Its been hard ...

My Journey #9

boogielu_23
  • By boogielu_23 · Posted October 16, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • Good morning all! I hope everyone is well and getting stronger every day. I havent written in awhile due to deep depression. Not only fearful after my surgery (July 15th) but economically as well. Right ...

MY KIDNEY HURTS SO MUCH....

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · Posted October 16, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • Hello all for any of you wonderful people who have read my posts in the past will know by know bout my kidney tumor (angiolypoma)...as i mentioned before it was only found by accident through an MRI....so ...

Better by a Margin

Michelle34116
  • By Michelle34116 · Posted October 15, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • This is what I was told yesterday that I am better by a margin. I had only lost six pounds of the fluid and the doctor was looking for a fifteen pounds to be gone in two weeks. SO he took up the lasix ...

Family??

Lynnedz56
  • By Lynnedz56 · Posted October 15, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • My son turned 21 in July and he was living with my parents. (Long story) Anyway, in August he bought his first car and 2 weeks ago he moved out with a friend and his girlfriend. He has always come up ...

10 years and why we need to be a health advocate

nanamo
  • By nanamo · Posted October 15, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • 10 years ago today oct 15.....i had a thallium stress test a test which they could of saved me from having a massive heart attack on oct 20th 1999 and open heart surgery on ict 22nd 1999 but instead they ...

Heart Problems

booboo49
  • By booboo49 · Posted October 14, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • I am a 60 year old who has had two Aorta Valve Implant One 6 years ago one in Aug of this year. The first one started with a heart murmur that I was born with. The second one was put in because the first ...

28years old 66 shocks in 2 days

lester
  • By lester · Posted October 13, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • Hi Everyone I'm just going to start from the begining. On March 7 I was out for dinner ,I stood up and fainted. Taken to our little hospital and they sent me home. I kept having episodes so they finally ...

Leg pain is getting worse

starre
  • By starre · Posted October 13, 2009
  • 11 replies
  • Lately my legs have been hurting so bad that i just can't take it i told my doctor and they seem to just ignore me i quest i have more important problems and they just want to give me pain med's. it's ...

An update

bettyboop48
  • By bettyboop48 · Posted October 13, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • Hi all Been having some problems ,it started on the 7th of this month everything went in slow motion and then got speech problems have to go get a test called a tee something like that doing that thurs ...

UPDATE ON MY UPCOMING SURGERIES

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · Posted October 13, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • Hello all well its been a while since ive been on this site...mainly because ive been so busy moving home..finally settled....for those wonderful and caring people who have been reading my posts i just ...

What is going on with me?

Michelle34116
  • By Michelle34116 · Posted October 12, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • what is normal for us with chf. I have been on my meds 13 days( coreg 3.125 twice a day lasix 40 mg twice a day) i have lost maybe 8 pounds of the 24 pounds of fluid I put on. I have nights I can't sleep ...

Another year gone by

junimead
  • By junimead · Posted October 12, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • So I didn't write in on my anniversary this year, not because it wasn't on my mind, but because I have too much going on some days to write. Another year's gone by, a few more stays in the hospital and ...

One more trip......

9yrsandcounting
  • By 9yrsandcounting · Posted October 11, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • About a month ago, I made an unexpected trip to the E.R., but I chose another hospital, not the usual one. In the old one, when I went in with symptoms, they would just excuse it as anxiety and send me ...

Remembering to stop and smell the jasmine...

AZMommy
  • By AZMommy · Posted October 10, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • Hello Sisters! My last post was rushed because, well, I have been going non stop for the past three weeks. By doing so, I have failed to remember my limitations and had an 'episode' that sent me into ...

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