Any ideas for recovering energy after spell with bad heart?

[redhen]

Stop it.. Yur making me get all emotional.

So you've rode a bull? I've always wanted to do that...

 

[mississippifarmboy]

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Oh horsefeathers.
And as for riding bulls.... it ain't all it's cracked up to be... like to cracked ME up. I wouldn't do it again.. but I done it once.
The rodeo guys said that my ride was what was called "Falling with style".
I thought it sounded good.

 

[redhen]

I am worried about you... So there!

Falling with style, huh??

I'd try the fake bulls first...

 

[arabianequine]

@ redhen Cardio exercise is any exercise that gets the heart rate up to strengthen the heart

@ farmboy I think you wife needs to see an attorney they will get her on SSI and won't charge for it till they get her on it.

I have known people to confuse heart pain with indigestion especially ones who have heart problems heart attacks etc......you can get some over the counter indigestion medicine at walmart or where ever like that. They have several different kinds and strengths see if that helps at the time this is happening too....it won't hurt to try. Hopefully it won't happen again though

 

[turney31]

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Thanks Maple,
As for the SSI, my wife has been trying for a couple years to get it and they just give her the runaround. She has COPD and another breathing thing I know I can't spell. Only had 40% use of her lungs a couple years ago, and I know she's worse now. She has to take a whole bag full of different pills each day, has 4 inhalers she has to use daily, can't even play with the kids without getting to huffing and wheezing and trying to find her emergency inhaler... you get the picture, and she's only 38 years old. She also has sleep apnea (? not sure on the spelling) and is on medication for depression and other mental health issues. We know several people getting SSI who are in perfect health, except for lazyitous (Some are even kin to us). They give them a check every month and they will not even help my wife who worked all her life and is really sick... can you tell that's a sore spot with me?
We "earn too much" for any kind of assitance, or so they tell my wife. It doesn't feel that way as I pay most of my emplyees more than I get to take home after taxes. I never tried to get any help myself, just wasn't raised that way. We were raised to work for what we got, but my wife has tried everything just to get help with her medicines. I hate wal-mart with a passion, but thanks to them she gets several of her medications for like $7.00 now that used to cost me $300.00 plus per month.
Myself, I'm not disabled. Headstrong, stubbern, bull-headed... yeah, I'll own up to that, but I can work most of the time and I'm one of those crazy people that LIKES to work. I get bored if I have to sit still.
My family doctor is great. We just love him to pieces. But the heart doctor is the meanest, most hateful piece of work I've ever met. Everyone around here agrees he's the best around this area, but...

I don't have a problem with tests being run... just think up some new ones darn it, I'm tired of paying for the same old tests, getting the same results, year after year. Plus, they already told me there is nothing they can do.

Acually, I'm very much at peace with dying when my time rolls around, it's the recovery time that's driving me bats! I faced all my demons years ago. I've lived a good life, raised 5 great kids, married and been loved by a wonderful woman, been everywhere, done about everything (Some of which I shouldn't have done

) there is to do, I've rode bulls, fought men, been loved, sailed the ocean, climbed mountains, made wonderful freinds, seen the miracle of chilbirth, bleed, laughed, cried, saved lives, seen beauty, and loved ever minute of it.


Everybody dies... not everybody truely lives...



I've lived!

 

[EweSheep]

Gotta love your tenacity, MSFarmboy and be able to support your family is rather noble and an honor to commitments. If many more guys like you would do that, at least we would not have so many unwed or abandonded wives hanging around.

To me, you should get SSI/SSD, try the disability first because you do have the handicap that you could not work or wife can not work like she used to. AND get on Public Aid. Its better than nothing. My cousin has a bad heart, just recently DX about two years ago, after a virus attacked it, now he has 40% of the heart left. He was denied SSI but was accepted for SSD. He had to fight like H*** to get it because he was a truck driver and has five kids to support going thru a nasty divorce. He will never get better, no matter how well the technology was, the damage from the virus was done. The only thing he could recover if he has a heart transplant when the percentage goes very low. I had an uncle that had a 30% heart until he came down with a fatal heart attack while driving, killing immediately on impact.

So you can try for SSD, both you and your wife. If they deny you, fight back. You have worked hard, then it's time for some of the payback you have paid SS all those years. I am on SSD as well and the only thing bad about SSD is they will review your case every five years to see if you have gotten better. If you have not, they will continue to pay. It is not going to be much but every bit of it helps.

 

[sourland]

Mfarmboy, read your last post. You wax poetic. You've got a lot more to live bud. I understand the being prepared and at peace part. I'll tell you what I told my "dog" partner when we thought he was going, "I know that you have a better place to go, but I just met you and I am selfish. I want some more time with you." I know that those of us on this forum feel the same way about you. You've got lots to give and we need you around here. Get your family doctor to recommend a new cardiologist!

 

[firedancer57]

Msfarmboy,
Ok you know the rules..3nitro:you go. Beat feet and boogie to the nearest ER. You sound just like a lot of the people that I pick-up and transport to the ER. 5 nitro!
OK, I'm not your Mom, wife or any other relation.. but we care, we really do.
As for recovery after a cardiac episode, it takes time .. Walking, is good.. Yoga is good.. but it's slow and after each episode it will take longer to totally recover.

OK, gonna get personal here, are you a veteran. If you are then you know that you are eligible for medical through the VA. WWW.va.gov
even if your not service connected you can still get medical and prescriptions @$8.00/30-90 day supply. Big VA hospital in Biloxi.
Try to file for SSI/SSA/SSD It could take some time and most people are turned down the first time but fight it, get a lawyer and fight!

We care and just want you to be around.
Ann

 

[EweSheep]

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[mississippifarmboy]

Awww, you are all so sweet! I'm fine, just need to get my energy levels back up where I can get outta the house. I do feel better today, just very weak and sore. I guess if it had to happen, at least it happened while we've got 8" of snow on the ground and and it's 19 degrees so I couldn't do much outside anyways.

I gotta admit, ya'll really cheered me up though. It's nice having our BYC family to talk to even if it isn't always about our chickens.

When I do have these spells, the computer is about all I feel like doing. I have gotten the last years paperwork done the past few days and figured out our feed cost, egg totals, etc.. If my wife sees those numbers, I won't have to worry about my heart... 'cause she'll kill me herself.

I hear padded rooms and doctors in nice white coats are expensive too though, so maybe I can write my chickens off as "Medical therapy"?

Seriously though, the only reason the disability thing bothers me is that someone like my wife who is obviously sick, been affirmed by every doctor she's seen, has so much trouble getting help and we know others that never worked in their lives just walk in and get approved. Just galls me to no end. She did hire a lawyer last year though, so maybe he can get something done someday.

Myself, I'm not disabled. I do have a bad heart, but I can still work 90% of the time. As I told a freind of mine in a PM earlier, I have been overdoing it, but I'm just that way. Sitting on my butt just ain't my strong suit.

I've been to heart doctors in 5 states in the past 10 years. It's a weird thing that's wrong with me and my family doctor is the one that told me best what it was in words I could understand. Basicly, because of the birth defect, I'm not a canidate for a pacemaker, medicines affect it in the wrong way, and I don't qualify for a heart transplant. I keep nitro with me to "Shock" my heart back into the proper ryhthm when I have one of these "spells", but nothing else much works. My arteries are good, cholesterol and triglycerites are ok, the test all show no blockages or anything. It's just a goofy shaped, malformed heart. My family doctor, who is VERY plain spoken, put it to me this way when I asked him to just spell it out and give me the truth... he said "you could drop dead today and I wouldn't be a bit suprised... but then again you might live to be 103, get shot by a jealous husband, and be guilty as he**." Yeah, he's a smart mouth. lol But I like him because he doesn't sugar coat anything. Also, after the bad one in 2001 when I asked him what I'd be able to do, he told me that speaking as my doctor he would suggest retiring and just sitting in the house, as my freind he would suggest doing whatever I felt like doing at the time without overdoing it. He said "Get your affairs in order just in case, then live your life as best you can".

I plan on being around for a long time yet.