sorry not sure what is going on but i hope it ends well
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Basically if a thing in my heart drops 1% it goes from being a healthy heart to heart failure, and there is no treatment for it.
I have to await a message back from the cardiologist if it's really as bad as i think or it's really not so bad as i think, i meant they never sounded worried, and one time the cardiologist said i had the heart of a young girl (i am a guy), so i really don't know.
Oh and Snowie (my upcoming cat) gets keeping delayed.
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As we say, there are no absolutely healthy people, there are under-examined ones. In addition, the survey results are not always correct, and the people themselves are different. What is a problem for one is the norm for another. So don't worry too much.
PS I apologize for my English. I don't speak it well, so I used an auto-translator)
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I hope that they can replace you heart with a machine, turning you into a cyborg. That way when the machine revolution begins you'll be forgiven. :) (I hope you can take this lighthearted, pun intended). For real, I hope everything goes well.
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Yeah or a pigs heart turning me into a,. :p I actually wish transplants where an easy alternative in a worse case scenario, but it's not that easy either.
Thank you.
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I agree with SergeD. My advice is not to let your thoughts influence your lifestyle more and in the long run.
Also, it seems that in a few days you will have a new friend next to you! <3
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Yeah, i know it's easier said then done, but offcourse you wish you knew in your head you would be atleast 80 years, preferablly 100 or more, but even if you are healthy as an ox you can still get something or hit under a bus, life is in the end so unpredictable.
True, and that's what i will live for. <3
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Wishing you the best of luck with your health and I hope you hear some good news soon.
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Hope the news will be good in both aspects. Worrying won't change a thing, so try to stay positive.
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Thank you.
I know and i even used to have that with bills, i am a glass is half empty type, but when it's your life, yeah it's a bit harder.
I mean i got 11000 games on steam to all play out. :p
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Live your best life, Lugum. That will remedy all, even if the time given will be shorter than expected (which I hope not).
Live well, and enjoy the time you have.
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Snowie 🏥🐈🏬ooO(✨🎀🎁🍵☕🥧🐟🍖✨)
Oh, she seems to be busy getting ready and is running late.🙄
Fun is more fun when it is delayed.
Hopefully Snowy will be on the same couch as you by the next rest day.
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Thank you.
Ahw she might look like the last one, i need new pictures, hopefully soon.
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Sorry about your health :'( I hope you can be with Snowie soon and feel better.
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Since 1% is so important, why not get a second opinion?
If the weather permits, go out for a walk, so as to strengthen the heart along with the rest of the muscles as well as the circulatory system?
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My old doctor for i think 20 years who just recently retired, and now my new one keeps saying for all those years it's been the same, so that are already two persons saying it basically.
But even the old one once said i had the heart of a young girl (as a joke, i am a guy) which was "funny" because for some weird reason i almost fainted (never happened in my life and didn't expect bad news) and i had a doctor in the room and he didn't know what to do with me/it.
And i have the healthy lifestyle (aside from the drinking) but i was lucky not ever having a high bloodpressure (i even had meds and went of it because it was not needed), i don't smoke, i am not overweight (very skinny actually) so that are good pointers, but i worry more perhaps it can change just by age, like when i reach 60-70.
We in The Netherlands our weather usually don't permit it :p We even had a record of half a year of temperatures not above 20c. :p
But yeah i used to be "lazy" and just sit behind the pc most of the day, sometimes a grocery, but now that i moved, i have biked and walked (when i locked myself in 2-3 times and then i have to walk 4km to my mom to get my spare keys) over 150km i think in 6 weeks? When i was used to doing nothing.
I mean i have to go more to my mom, because she feels so lonely too and not like my sis is much help, and have to get out more to do more groceries.
More people said go walking, i used to jog but i stopped (and i think that's too much strain on the heart) but i always have to feel like having a goal when walking, and if there was nature, but i live in an industrial area (live across the hospital), i even enjoy walking when it snows, but also not going without like buying something.
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I've got asthma, hypertension, high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease. Just had a cardiologist appointment 2 months ago for chest pain and he told me to get off my ass and start walking 30 mins a day 3-4 times a week. I hate jogging but I've started walking and taken to feeding stray cats along the way so I don't get bored or unmotivated. I'm thinking of getting an elliptical trainer so I have something to do indoors when the weather's bad. Anyway, if I go, I hope it's quick and painless. No point worrying about it since it'll raise my blood pressure
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May i ask about what your heart disease contains? Are you overweight (considering the chest pain)? If you rather don't want to talk about it, and it all makes you upset, just ignore it. it's okay.
For years my cholestrol certain levels were always too high, my diabetes level kept raising, but noone saw reason enough to actually try do something about it, my liver doctor said metformine is key, he was like a worshipper of it, but metformine never dropped any of it.
Until they gave me gliclazide, my liver levels went almost to normal levels, my bloodsugar still wasn't okay right away, until i was given in my own hands to take back the metformine or up to 4 gliclazide, i decided on 1 in the morning and 1 in the evening, and when my bloodsugar was tested it was also never that low. Then that same liver doctor said oh you can even drop the metformine if you want.
Now because of the moving i went back to drinking and offcourse my liver results became bad again, but i will quit again and test in 3 months, i am pretty convinced the cholestrol and diabetes levels will be perfect with 2 gliclazide.
Now gliclazide is normally prescribed for diabetes (which i don't see you mention) but it did also strongly help me with the cholestrol levels, so i don't know if it's a weird thing to try/ask your doctor.
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My paternal relatives have a family history of hypertension, high cholesterol with angina and/or coronary artery disease. I've been putting on weight since the pandemic, but I've lost a few kilograms since I started intermittent fasting last year. My recent random blood glucose levels looks good, so I'm not worried about Type 2 diabetes yet.
The cardiologist did run an 2D echo and a treadmill test and told me my coronary arteries and heart walls look fine. He's reluctant to start me on statins or other medications for my cholesterol because he wants me to initiate some lifestyle changes first. My relatives told me to try some red yeast rice but I'll hold it off for now till my next blood test in 6 months. He wanted me to get a dog so I could have motivation for regular exercises but I told him my cats would have some violent disagreements
Really hope the gliclazide works out for you. Hope your new cardiologist has a plan in place for you as well
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Well since my heart is stable for 20 or so years, he doesn't really have a plan for me except every few years a checkup (and yes i also did the treadmill test once which became heavy as..).
An echo and an ECG, my old cardiologist said every 5 years, this new one wanted 2 years, i was like is it necessary, my old one always said 5, so he said okay 5 it is, and i see you in 5 years then.
Only the liver doctor has a plan for me and that is stay on the glicazide, no drop of alcohol and watch my salt intake (it helps that i never smoked, not overweight, and blood pressure always been good).
I am not saying you should take gliclazide for potential diabetes, but maybe it's just also the wonder cure for cholestrol, but i am not your doctor and in the end yeah he knows best.
Basically mine always told me flat out (which was strange) there are no medicine for it except the metformine, and well turned out also the gliclazide.
Your cardiologist knows best, although with what others told me sometimes a second opinion can never hurt, and depends on the species if they can get along, but a dog requires you to go out several times a day, rain, storm, cold, it's why i love to get my own cat, they are independent.
I don't think just red yeast rice would really make a big difference, it's either a completely different diet or some exercize, i don't know if you have a switch but get a ringfit, it's a "fun" way to exercize and you stay dry. There are always ways to do things inside, in a somewhat fun way, just have to figure out what you can do and find fun. Even if it's just 10 situps a day, more then nothing.
Wish you the best too.
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I must have misunderstood something and suggested a second opinion. Excuse-moi.
Walking is the best thing you can do for your heart. If you can every day, put it in the schedule. Don't you have a place nearby with trees or greenery, maybe a park, where people go for a walk? I think the Netherlands has only such places... :)
The best walking, they say, is done in the morning, before the sun rises.
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I live in an industrial area right across the hospital, surrounded by like over a 100+ companies (although apparently 2 buildings across me will be demolished and i think there will be 8 flats then here in total).
I was even thinking about children and an elementary school how far the closest one really is (far).
Then you eventually reach roads / train tracks (no matter which side you go, one leads to the town).
There is a park far away (which i can always bike to), where i used to jog, but people walk their dog there, and when you startle them from behind while jogging (i learned) they will try to grab you.
But most people don't clean up after their dog, so i don't find it a nice park to walk at, not even mentioning our weather.
Also as you say if weather permits, but as i said the weather usually doesn't here, and i am a nightowl so definitely not a sun rising walker.
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If you think you're getting cold below 20 degrees, why don't you walk faster? Although an equally important role is played by air humidity, which may be high there.
While it's not ideal to be near an industrial area, is there a stadium (with running tracks) nearby?
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You can dress on that by just putting on a coat.
I jogged with 5C (i stopped after 2 years) also depends if the sun shines, i am 193cm i already walk fast, i often have people saying slow down i can't keep up with you.
I know you trying to give your best advice which i appreciate, but the most downer here is just the many rain and wind, and there is a running track, but i don't know if they allow it to non paying members, and again also not that closeby.
Basically nothing is being in an industrial area, they should have build some flats but also thought about stuff like a park, or school or some things to do for people, but it's all just focused on building and putting away people (and we have a major housing crisis here in the whole country).
Going to my mom, and long bike rides to the grocery store is what will have to do (with milk and other heavy stuff i usually have loads of 10-12kg+), it's already way more then i used to do.
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Oh yeah, rain and wind make it difficult.
I just wanted to say that walking helps a lot. And the absence of salt, of course, which other members wrote. Anyway, I have nothing else to add. :)
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I know, and as i said i wish i could have just had the room and money for a treadmill then i would have used that to walk but you can also just combine it with watching tv or listening to music.
Salt i barely take or add anyway, to be frank since i moved i really not like to cook just for myself, after my mom had a stroke i had to, for months, and even before that i had no problems, but suddenly it feels like a drag, like why spend 15-20 minutes in the kitchen, when you can make a sandwhich in 2 minutes? And yes it's not healthy, but atleast i try to take A-Z vitamins to get something in.
Easier to cook if you had people depending on you.
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oh that indeed sounds worry-some... are there ways to improve your condition? to add 1% here and there?
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That part, i am a very unsure about, and wish i knew, i see all these sites talking about not smoking/drinking etc, but also as an user adviced above take a daily walk, but from doing 0 exercize i went to like 150km+ biking/walking since i moved because i had to and since then i done that echo which seemingly produced the same result but maybe it takes longer.
And a good diet (which is still hard for me living on your own making a decent meal for just yourself, it's easier to take a sandwhich)..
But atleast you need to avoid the salt (which is not a problem for me), but i don't know if these are just ways to maintain staying healthier with a lower EF or that it can actually still improve that EF.
I left a message at the doctor and he can reply within 5 days, else i will have to just call and ask for another telephone appointment.
But i already ran out of my credits on day 10 out of 30, so i have to wait a bit.
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so the old classic: live healthily... guess there is no way around it...
you can make healthy sandwish, with a lot of vegetable and the right fats and stuff...
i myself would like to eat healthy but i know its hard (currently sits with some bread with nutella on the sofa) and i too dont like cooking and stuff, its just so bothersome
anyway... i wish you can overcome some of these hurdles and can live quite the long life despite those issues
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Yeah you can make all sorts of sandwhiches, maybe i need a cookbook for that for ideas.
My mom is so nice, she got me this big oven, but usually you put pizza in it or premade lasagna, but that's also not healthy, you can offcourse make your own, but it's the same thing, the whole effort of making it.
And i don't know what happened, because i didn't had this in the past.
Exactly if you had someone (like my mom after her stroke) you got someone depending on you, and it's easier to cook if you do it for others, but for yourself you easily think mweh i just grab a sandwhich, and then the next day too, and the next.
Atleast i try to switch it sometimes with atleast a Caesar salad.
But please really be careful with Nutella, that is just one big sugar bomb which you should just drop.
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yeah i know its a lot of sugar, but sometimes you just need food to eat up your worries... also as im currently sick, im happy i can eat sometimg at all as the mere thought of eating something non-sweet doesnt feel all that good
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Thanks, good news.
While a stressful life, for some reason bloodpressure never been high though. Cholestrol was high for years (and they let me) until i went on a new diabetes pill. But for sure anyway they reduce stress, and that's always helpful, even just companionship (when you are alone).
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It is good that the new doctor caught the signs the heart disease now. You still have options to avoid critical failure.
One in my family suddenly had a broken atrioventricular valve, being only in middle-aged and without alcohol, smoking or obesity involved.
He overcame that health crisis, but only after a very invasive operation and a very long stay in the hospital.
I hope you can take all necessary measures to avoid this.
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My heart situation has not changed for over 20 years, probably my old doctor would have said my heart pump ratio was also 50% but too young or ignorant to pay too much attention to it, every so years i did an ECG and echo and they were always the same results (the same as the last one), the old doctor even said i had the heart of a young girl (i am a guy) so you can assume it's not really that bad.
The new doctor was also very short, i was groggy from still waking up, why i also didn't ask further, but that 50% just kept in my mind.
And that's when i started doing my own google searching (which you usually shouldn't do).
I have messaged the doctor, else i will have to call them again for a new telephone appointment (i ran out of credit for half a month).
Sorry to hear about your family member, but if he/she didn't drink, smoke or was overweight how could that person ever taken measures to have avoided it? Sometimes in life we can't.
My dad was a heartpatient (why i inherited his cardiomyopathy) he had to take atleast 11 pills a day and had a ICD in his chest. and died 2 years ago from shortness of breath, and an aunt that fell with her head on a bathroom sink (also most likely her heart).
I only have 1 aunt left with cardiomyopathy, but she's still relatively "young".
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Sorry to hear about your family member, but if he/she didn't drink, smoke or was overweight how could that person ever taken measures to have avoided it? Sometimes in life we can't.
In Germany, people at the age 35 and above have the right to get a free health check-up their house doctor every three years. This is a good opportunity to catch any kind of slow deterioration of health, because the doctor can compare the values from the last time. In fact that family member was due for one, but postponed it due to the Covid crisis.
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I am sorry to hear that. I believe knowing about one's condition is ultimately far better than blissfull ignorance and a sudden realization all too late. But in this case, it must feel terrible to know there is little that can be done. But as you said, your previous doc never seemed too worried about something like this, hopefully for a good reason. Lets hope this new doc or even you yourself during your research overestimated the severity of your condition.
In the meantime, Snowie's arrival is surely something to look forward to. Would be nice if she could arrive soon. Aside from the obvious joy of their prescence, a cat's company is unparalelled in stress relief.
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Thank you, yeah i mean in most cases when you could beforehand still get treatment, it's way better.
I mean i have a female friend, and she started to have pains after i last seen her (for over 10 years, long reason), she has two children even, but she is afraid of the results and knowing what she might have.
if i lived closer by i would have dragged her to the hospital, that's a case when eventually she might be too late, but i also feel she has a responsibility towards her children to have it checked out, It's always a sore subject which she rather not talks about.
The old doctor once said i had the heart of a young girl as a joke (i am a guy) but i think that must have meant something too, and offcourse you got a left side and a right side they make a destinction in, i know a lot, i can google a lot, but eventually i have to await what the new doctor is going to tell me, but in all truth both will most also likely say they can't predict my future, i can end up with a bag of meds like my dad, have an ICD (sort of pacemaker) or live like i am doing now (i also got diabetes which is a bad combo with your heart).
But i am not overweight or smoked (unlike my dad) and my bloodpressure always been fine, so i got that going for me, perhaps i do need to take some people's advice here, and walk more, but then again since i moved out/in i already have to bike way more and get movement.
They for sure are (although if they drop an accident or maybe changing the litter box the first few times i might gonna swear big time). Because of the whole germphobia thing i am trying to overcome that's a BIG thing for me. But when you look at their cute kitten face i don't think you can still angry for long at them.
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Sorry to hear that, Lugum.
Maybe stress and alcohol is a bad combination. It should give a temporary relief, but the after effects should be worse.
Well, I hope your results are better than expected and try to add some walking, even inisde your house?
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Thank you.
They for sure are definitive risk factors, but usually stress (and i had my fair share, more then others) usually comes with a bad blood pressure but luckily that's always been good, and alcohol is definitely a no go but no cardiologist (or some general doctors) ever warned me about it.
You can even get cardiomyopathy by excessive drinking, well with what i all have taken in those years i really crept through a needle if my last result is basically still the same as the first.
I been sober twice for a year, it's just when i started moving in the loneliness and slight depression crept in when i started going back to it, but yeah it's not really smart to persue it, now i am clean again for like 9 days.
We have a lot of bad weather, and I will wear out the wooden floors so small my appartment is. :P A treadmill would be my solution, but no space for it, even at my moms place.
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I got a treadmill and it just stayed there as a hanger after some damn months...
It may sound stupid, but what about a jumping rope? You don't have to actually jump over it at the beginning.
Some low budget fun that needs low space and for a break between tasks?
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I wouldn't even make it beyond the rope, in school i always sucked at it.
But then i don't think that would be good for a wooden floor, not to mention what the neighbours below might think about the sound.
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That is why I said you don't need to jump over it first, just have it in one hand, to do the action.
Unless it is crumbling, wood floor should be fine. You can put a antislip mat for protection.
And the guys downstair should mind their on business! As long as you use it in normal hours...
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I got wii dancing mats, i got a switch ringfit, but can't hook them up yet (and it gets boring quickly) but it were moments of exercize back then. :p
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You do get bored with the switch ringfit? I was thinking of buying one for the fun of it. Well it looked like fun.
Sigh, I need to exercise as well for my damn back, but I am so damn bored as well.
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I think if you aren't a motivated sporter (like a jogger going through wind and rain) every exercize gets boring in the end.
Well i did use it for several months, but they use the same courses over and over and the boss eventually gets hard, so you have to grind.
And you get coloured monsters and all are immune to a certain exercize, there will be exercizes you just don't like (like yoga) but have to do to get rid of the monsters more easily.
However you can still work out with it (and it stll counting if you have your switch on) while sitting on the couch and watching tv, but i never did that.
I believe after you do reach the end, so eventually you "done the story", you can start all over again (with some new stuff?) but then it will be like been there, done that.
It's still worth it's money in my opinion.
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I am a couch potato so I am willing to try it. Your explanation seems attractive enough if you add the things I already know of it.
The problem is that I get bored so easily, that it may be waste of money.
I already got the steam deck (bought on release) and got its money worth the last 2 months that I use it almost daily.
So, a second handheld, just for the exercise (pretty difficult for my spending habits to buy Nintendo games with this pricing) sounds as an overkill. If only they had stupid things like these for pc...
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I on the contrary with 11000 games thought to get a steamdeck for outside, before bed, emulation and i only touched it twice.
I am like why play on such a small screen when i got a big one with keyboard and mouse lol.
I also bought the biggest ssd version, when now i read everyone replaces it with a quicker 1TB or even 2TB one, and they are smaller then a regular one, so it's not like i can use the 512gb for something else.
I also was lucky enough to get a modded switch, i always wanted a backup but the seller got fined by Nintendo, so he stopped doing it (and so did many others), but you need the ringfit hardware, so you get the cartridge anyway, but if you could have had it modded then yeah the pricing of those other games would be void.
Switch emulation is pretty good on pc (if you got a decent one) i know wii controllers can work on it, i never really looked if a ringfit would work, maybe google?:
Another option is to find a xbox 360 kinect camera (which may be rare, but i was again lucky to find one for a decent price) for sure you can hook that up to your pc as a webcam, and then through emulation play all the games, i am sure that will get you exercize too.
Or even find an xbox 360 console itself with kinect camera, i am sure that is not stuck to one game, and i believe you can softmod it, but don't quote me on that, better to just do a quick google.
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I have around 50 games installed in the deck. I find it enough with the most expensive version and an extra SD card. And if you removed the movies and series, I would have extra space for maybe half of that.
I played different genres on it (no FPS, though Space Marine has a FPS part and is kinda difficult without the mouse assistant) and it is fine. My approach would be to only have the simple relaxing ones on it, for playing on the bed if you want.
I searched a little for switch emulation and I am really not interested on trying. :D
Well, I will see how it goes with real life problems and re-think it later.
In the past, I had thought about finding a kinect, but I also didn't want to go through the trouble of finding it and setting it up.
And you never know, for how much longer it will work...
Hm, I just prefer the easy stuff, I suppose.
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If you got an actual xbox 360 and the kinect, it should last decades, as to support for windows, it does for windows 10, windows 11 is not much different, so that will also last some years.
And i don't think i see windows changing much anymore in structure like compared to windows 95 vs windows 7, they have all they could done to make a structured OS, i think 12 etc etc will be the same structure and thus the same compabilities (same for games).
It's just a webcam basically, it has just 1 usb plug (i believe) you plug in, and that's it.
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Now you will make me start googling again...
Thanks for the info!
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Once Snowie arrives maybe she will help alleviate some potential heart issues. People that have cats tend to have heart problems on average. Hopefully she will be with you in a week with no more delays. :)
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Ahh man double whammy with the news about Snowie.
I hope you feel better with time. Unfortunately with your condition, it is what it is. Don't lose hope but rather focus on your health with your diet and daily scheduling. You need to experiment and test better ways to ensure a healthy diet, whole foods and veggies are the way to go. Perhaps this is an opportunity to explore tastier and healthier dishes? 😅time will tell!
With time and care, i have a feeling it wont bother you as much mentally as it might right now.
Also just wanted to say your new cat from the other post is beautiful.
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Yeah, when you wake up you think you will have a cat walking around that day, and the next moment not..
Well first thing is to actually start myself cooking again, i mean when you cook for your mom after a stroke for months, it's easy to do, and i done it for years for myself (since i don't eat what my mom used to make), but for some reason i went into a lazy mode, and it's so easier to make a sandwhich in 2 minutes then spend 15-20 minutes cutting vegetables, waiting for something to cook, etc.
I been living for 6 weeks on frites, grilled sandwhich/tosti, normal bread, sometimes a caesar salad to throw in something healthy, i lost 4 kg.
Also not forget groceries (atleast here) become very very expensive (even non a brands, i already get stuff in the sale) but i still usually pay 40-50 euro for 1 bag, and then i don't even have a bag that's really full of healthy stuff.
I actually got a very expensive airfryer with 2 pans, where i can toss in a steak, vegetables, everything all in one as not to have an excuse not to have a proper meal but i don't know i still haven't done it, and i can't speak about other food, but with frites, it's still a very sticky mess to clean.
For the heart it's very wise not to use (too many) salt, but i rarely use that anyway, it doesn't help i don't like many vegetables.
As a child i offcourse had to sit at the table until i finished my plate, until i found out to put it in toilet paper and in my pockets. :p
Thank you, he/she sure is.
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I dont think bread is that good for your health. If you must eat, try to go for the wholegrain option. I have heard fresh groceries are crazy expensive in EU...but unfortunately you do need to consume more than just potato!🙃
You could continue to grab healthy stuff thats on sale, start reading nutrition labels of the canned and processed stuff, Ration veggies... which means storing them efficiently and using a variety of veggies for a longer period. Perhaps buying in bulk is cost effective. Learn more about what your body actually needs and try to aim for a balanced diet for most of your meals. It will be daunting, but you will find it easier as you set up a system in place. I spout all this nonsense, cz after a recent blood report i was told to consult with a dietician, who did lecture me about healthy choices. In the long run, Expensive Fruits and Veggies> Expensive Medicines.
Something that really got me to eat the veggies I hated, was trying our recipes/dishes of other cuisines. In my case, it was regional dishes of my own country. It also broadens your perspective in general, stuff one thinks as mehh...might be amazing if one gives it a chance!
Just focus on the basics and try not to get overwhelmed. Good Luck!💪
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Check out r/airfryer to see how other folks across the globe use it.
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I do take wholegrain, it's also one of the better breads i like. I also always wanted my own bread making machine, but my kitchen is already stuffed to the brim and not financially best atm or anytime soon.
And offcourse if you don't get the desire to cook a proper meal, it's always better to have something in you (even bread) then nothing at all.
Yeah, i guess you can vacuum compartments dry so that there is no air (thus no bacteria) and keep food longer that way, but i still have so much on my shopping list (drapes, balcony protection for the cat) And i tried f.e 2 boxes of strawberries but they spoil so easily, so i tried 2 boxes of nectarines and to my surprise they also spoiled very easily, now i am trying grapes (which i believe are always good) and they don't spoil so easily, i would like to take red berries and other stuff but they get too expensive.
In the beginning with doing your own groceries it's also very much testing to see what works and not, and what spoils easily and what not.
I also had a talk with a dietician many years ago, she gave me this whole book of good food to eat, even my diabetes nurse says well eat this or that, it's also not just the cost in general that have increased but offcourse the unhealthy stuff is also cheaper, like a bottle of lemonade syrup with sugar is 1 euro, without 2, and if you got all those stuff adding up, offcourse you go for the one with the sugar.
We got Knorr wereldgerechten (and wow when i just again look at that price that's without the ingredients, only sauce and noodles, and the sauces are offcourse usually full of salt). https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi67751/knorr-wereldgerechten-japanse-teriyaki But those packages from them are one of the few that actually make me like some vegetables.
There are airfryer dishes and cookbooks, but usually it's limited because they are small, basically i can really turn anything in, even raw, like steak, or broccoli (although if you use both pans you will use over 2600KWH of power which is a lot and offcourse again also power itself cost a lot).
https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/ninja-foodi-af300eu-dubbele-airfryer-xxl-twee-kookvakken-7-6-liter-2400-watt-dual-zone-technologie/9300000012298297/ Not many will have this type for that price.
Thank you.
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Try to look at things from the positive side- most people who have this have no idea and suffer early then needed, and about living to 100... most people dont, and many dont want to- my grandma passed recently at 80 something and she complained so much from pains, other issues, most people she knew having passed away... she mentioned being tired of living (all signs of depression, but she didnt want to work around it)... im not saying old age is bad, its all about having a good old age (and for many reasons i wont go in detail my grandma like many pretty much paved the way for a bad one)... and heck given my habits i might as well be paving mine too...
...wich im definetly doing by all my smoking that i couldnt stop yet- heck chances are my lifespan will be shorter then yours
Take care of yourself, keep this always on check and alcohol can be done without. For different reasons i mostly stoped drinking (nowadays i only drink socially and even then just a few sips if at all)- probably some 6 or so years by now that i pratically dont drink... and i dont miss it- i mean, unless its a really boring social event then i miss it, but being around people we can chat and have a good time? I dont miss it anymore. You get used to it.
Frankly it got easier with age too i think. I drank heavily when younger and hated having to reduce, but as i got used to i reduced even more. Alcohol makes its way into our habits as if it somehow was sinonimous with having a good time and the association is the other way around. I only had to reduce the frequency and quantity but as i did i could notice how much shittier i felt when i did drink, be it the day after or few shots in... by that point i reduced the rest.
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Well if those sporters that died on the field (some now all blame it on the corona vaccin) if you exert yourself too much, that might actually be bad sometimes with cardiomyopathy, so atleast when you sport intensively i think they should be tested, i am sure they get their ECG's, but it really takes an echo to show.
I totally agree not everyone grows to be a 100 or even 80 in a healthy way (if i would get amnesia, i think i would just rather end it) or if you need constant help, plus many youngsters these days don't want to pick up this profession or anything that requires hard work (there is already a shortage plus they are getting swamped by bureaucratic papers to fill in so each person only really gets about 5 minutes of help).
I can easily say i stop drinking now, i was sober for 1 year twice, it was only because of the move that made me get lonely (and even going towards a slight depression) and back to drinking, beer/wine/mojito that goes okay, but cognac was always my dads thing, and i also thought let me try vodka and rum for the first time in my life, and i don't have a stop with drinking (even tea or lemonade) and when you aren't 20 anymore, and the older you get, the (very) longer you will need to recover.
But i crawled through a needle with the drinking that my heart stayed stable, because even with excessive drinking it can create it's own cardiomyopathy, and now they are all saying in the media how even 1 drink can cause different cancers.
Anyway though that loneliness doesn't alas disappear though (then again it doesn't with drinking either), our whole block of 6 apartments holds a party at september 7 (hope on good weather), i might buy a shirt with kiss me, i am single (since there are so many single ladies) just for giggles, but who knows... :p It would be a very short walk for a living apart together relationship.
I had a telephone appointment with my liver doctor yesterday and he told me my heart wasn't as all as bad as i thought it was, and in theory i can become a 100, my advantages are i never smokes, never high bloodpressure, not overweight, i only need to take care of salt intake and he also said never ever one zip of alcohol anymore, not even beer or wine (and you'll be fine).
Even while i am using it (or used it) alcohol is just poison (i saw a tv show just a few days where someone was stuck on a submarine and drank 95%... alcohol) anyway, but it's a poison our government get big taxes on so they won't stop it, they tried to ban it in the US without success, and even if they tried it again, it's so easy to make it yourself, so i don't alcohol will ever gonna disappear.
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not sure what to say about the heart condition, I'm really unfamiliar, I wish you the best.
As for the cat, as you still waiting? Any updates?
both our older cats passed away in the last couple of years, one during covid lockdowns and the second one more recently this year. We now have 2 new kittens and they have all the energy in the world - you could power a neighbourhood with just their zoomies alone
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Thank you.
I spoken to a doctor and he said my heart wasn't actually that bad as i thought, in theory i could live to be a hundred but i really have to get no zip of alcohol anymore, ever.
No updates, and i don't think there will be till sunday.
Sorry to hear about your cats, did the lockdown influence things, like you couldn't go to a vet?
Hope you enjoy the new ones, what are they called?
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Yes, and no. During the lockdown one of the cats had his second crisis with his kidneys, he had already had kidney failure with one years before and we got him out of it, with months of care. When the second happened we contacted our regular vet and they could not take us in fast enough, so we changed vets, the new vet did they best, but after the kidney there was his heart and the treatment for one, was the opposite of what we needed for the other, and his quality of life deteriorated rapidly.
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So after some postponement Snowie was finally supposed to be coming tommorow, but now apparently it's gonna be another week. :(
I already did my groceries so i could be with her alone the next few days to keep an eye out permanently, i was totally prepared.
On a sidenote got a call from my cardiologist, i know i have inherited cardiomyopathy (an enlargened vessel, which is untreatable) for like over 20 years, every time i get tested it's stable, and i was like fine whatever, but the old doctor went on retirement and the new one told me my heart pump function was 50%.
And for the first time i started digging into it, and it kinda shocked and scared me, a normal range would be 55-70%, and mine is not 55%, not 52% but exactly 50%. The doctors simply can't predict what my future around it will be.
At 49% it's heart failure (and then you pretty much don't live to be a 100) so basically if i ever gonna go lose 1% it's pretty worrysome.
Another thing is alcohol is pretty bad with cardiomyopathy but no cardiologist every warned me, you can even get cardiomyopathy from excessive alcohol, so basically i went through a needle with the drinking i did in those years with my heart still being stable apparently.
But i think that's also always been the cause i been looking for (and no general doctor ever told me or linked to it) that's the reason i am so tired more easily then others, rather then having a bad condition.
But this is also the reason of the stories of sporters falling dead on the playing field, many have cardiomyopathy without knowing (because unless you know you have it inherited, you just simply won't know you have it).
Atleast i got a free schedule for the time being and gonna take some days off to just chill.
https://www.steamgifts.com/cataway/UWce3/rain-world
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