Early Announcement: We celebrate my heart attack and consequent quadruple bypass surgery in exactly two weeks. Two years, and I can still remember how cold it was in the operating room.
In order to celebrate, I will eat oatmeal cooked in water for the next two weeks. That seems to be the accepted meal for people near death.
I am also hoping for Fentanyl, but that hope is probably a bridge too far.
I will gladly post my recipe for oatmeal cooked in water.
Love you all.
Spinliesel
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My husband celebrated 16 years after his quadruple bypass. Unfortunately lung cancer metastasized to his brain before we knew what was going on and I lost him anyway.
Low good cholesterol and smoking we're supposedly his culprits but I put him on a very low-fat diet after his surgery. He loves shredded wheat and grape nuts even before the surgery so that helps some. His heart doctor gave him a choice between cholesterol medication or a drink of alcohol daily. He chose the medication since the insurance paid for it. I think the word for his personality was frugal.
Lorajay
Level 9
Nov 18, 2022
0
Congrats on the two years. I have 5 years after a cardiac arrest. Life can go on.
Dougl35534
Level 7
Nov 17, 2022
1
- Congratulations and best of health to your future! Yes, having your heart cut open is a rather sobering experience (mine for a scary arrhythmia), but the results are worth it! Hmmm, I don't remember anything about the food, just a bit disgusted with it overall.
tinkercreek
Level 8
Nov 17, 2022
3
Enjoy your porage. I thrived on it as a kid and almost everyone I knew had it for breakfast.
I recall being at an agricultural show years ago where a large kilted gentleman was advertising Scotts porage oats. I thought I would be funny and mentioned the comment by diarist Samuel Johnson after his trip round Scotland with Boswell. " In England we feed oats to the horses but in Scotland they sustain the men". His reply was a growled " Aye but look at the difference in the men". Touche !!
Moravian
Level 8
Nov 17, 2022
3
What is Fentanyl?
Jolanta
Level 9
Nov 17, 2022
2
It's a drug that will kill you. Normally mixed with other drugs for a bigger high it has played a part in deaths of Prince and Tom Petty along with other musicians.
@Jolanta Any drug dealer worth his salt can sell you fentanyl. Sometimes you get it when all you want is heroin. I hope you want neither.
@K9Kohle789 Love the recipe. I have a prescription for oxycodone, Never had it questioned.
Very impressive that you survived and recovered. Happy you are alive and hanging in there, hope you have many more good years. A male friend of mine survived a bypass of five arteries, not just four, how he made it, I will never know, but I saw him before he went for the surgery and he was in pretty bad shape, very poor color and a gray face. I had no doubt and so did he, that he would die soon without the surgery, so he had nothing to lose. He has other issues now, early Parkinson's and his longtime chronic severe depression, but he's still here and kicking. I guess that last part, for him and you, is what really matters...
TomMcGiverin
Level 8
Nov 16, 2022
1
I showed the surgeon my Viking tattoo when he came o visit me before the surgery. He is Indian. but still, he was impressed. I told him dying was not an outcome for me. I had to work so hard all my life to just slip away. I had plans.
Sá sem lifir án aga deyr án heiðurs
(he who lives without discipline, dies without honor....
In a tattoo across my back.
The doctor was impressed.
@Spinliesel Sounds like a great philosophy.
@TomMcGiverin When you have a condition that requires discipline to survive, it really helps.
In the old Lancashire weeving song it is called Waterloo porridge only it was a case of poverty that necessitated it.
I also find the oats great for helping keep sugar levels down.
FrayedBear
Level 9
Nov 16, 2022
0
Oatmeal every morning!
The Waterloo is because the pooridge was very watery containg very litt by way of oats.
Now, that’s worth celebrating! Mine was 13 years ago, and my first post-operative meal was a simple bowl of Cheerios with milk.
The-Krzyz
Level 8
Nov 16, 2022
2
That is a good meal if you are 10 years old. ,I am encouraged you made it for 13 years. I gave up alcohol. Did you give up anything fun?
@Spinliesel I couldn’t bring myself to eat for about a day after the operation, so the cereal was an easy first step back to a normal diet. I had been doing a lot of things right beforehand (good diet, active physically), but found out my weak point is cholesterol: a hereditary genetic flaw that doesn’t allow my body to assimilate it normally. So, I have to moderate many things I enjoy: eggs, dairy, shrimp; generally avoid fried/salty/sugary foods; and started taking meds to help with that and with hypertension (also inherited). I still OCCASIONALLY have eggs, cheese (mozzarella is safest for us), the good Mexican food so available to me, and the traditional northern European diet I grew up with (special occasions). Doctors said moderation, not necessarily abstinence, is the key. Good luck!
Lentils are also suitable. I boil the water and add it to the oatmeal. OK. Actually, I spoon an unhealthy dollop of butter or equivalent on a spoon and drizzle the boiling water over it, gradually melting it. Then a few pinches of salt. That'll stick to your ribs.
racocn8
Level 9
Nov 16, 2022
4
Good luck but I don't get it.
DenoPenno
Level 9
Nov 16, 2022
4
If I wait until I die, it is too late.
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