New performance mod

**2ManySS's** · 02-26-2013, 12:49 AM

Well at least for me.
Getting angioplasty and having a stent put in my iliac artery, it's 70% blocked under stress to my right leg.
I'll be able to walk further faster and climb better just in time for show season!!!

**35th-ANV-SS** · 02-26-2013, 02:28 AM

Good luck with the surgery!

**SiggyZ** · 02-26-2013, 07:02 AM

Yep, good luck!

***SMWS6TA*** · 02-26-2013, 07:14 AM

Damn at 37 yrs old?!?

A little young for that. Hope it goes well for you. Work hard at Physical Therapy, otherwise recovery will take forever.

**SiggyZ** · 02-26-2013, 07:26 AM

I think you might be mistaking his age for his post count.

Originally Posted by SMWS6TA

Damn at 37 yrs old?!?

A little young for that. Hope it goes well for you. Work hard at Physical Therapy, otherwise recovery will take forever.

**pajeff02** · 02-26-2013, 07:51 AM

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

***SMWS6TA*** · 02-26-2013, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by SiggyZ

I think you might be mistaking his age for his post count.

I had to look again....yeah I'm use to seeing that as an age of person....

**2ManySS's** · 02-26-2013, 02:04 PM

Thanks!

2-4 hours for the whole thing and good to go, no therapy needed.

And I'm 52.
The only thing that really sucks is I can't finish my recipes I got from Bacon of US shows.

**5.0THIS** · 02-26-2013, 11:48 PM

Good luck man. Anything you can do to get healthier.

**0rion** · 02-27-2013, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by 2ManySS's

Thanks!

2-4 hours for the whole thing and good to go, no therapy needed.

And I'm 52.
The only thing that really sucks is I can't finish my recipes I got from Bacon of US shows.

hmmmm.....I think I may have an idea why you're in this position. It's just a guess though.

**2ManySS's** · 03-14-2013, 01:37 PM

Well it did not go anywhere near as planned.
Diet and Smoking are the main factors given.
Had the Angio today and iliac artery on my right side is completely blocked at the hip and a stent can't be placed there.
From the base of the aorta plaque buildup is evident, so its time for some type of bypass to be done because along with that 2 aneurisms are on the left side so they are recommending to the cardiovascular surgeon both be bypassed, but its up to him what we do.
I could have from the hip down removed on the right side and live off the government<< Sorry I had to, right now my mind needs a little tickle!! And actually they said this is over 25years worth of accumulation that if not fixed fast will cause the leg to die because my calf is actually showing some signs of damage. Funny thing is, it never hurt and felt like the hip ball was going bad!!

**Zapper2003** · 03-14-2013, 05:47 PM

wow, that's not good. get fixed!

**KahanaReef** · 03-14-2013, 06:18 PM

A bad diet and smoking will do that to you. Time to quit smoking and change up your diet.

I smoked for 28 years. Not an easy thing to quit. Not even after my Dad died of Emphysema at age 60. He smoked all the way to the end too

Quitting was one of the hardest things for me and it took several attempts over several years before I finally got it right. Haven't had so much as a hit off of a cigarette since 1/2/07. Learning to eat healthy is much easier

Poor health can be a good motivator to get you going. Good luck.

**2ManySS's** · 03-15-2013, 02:37 AM

Mama Reef I have all ready changed the diet to a major extreme from where I was 3 weeks ago well before this test.
Actually I'm having a harder time trying to adjust the diet than I am the smoking part. 3 attempts so far quitting them, one time I actually pulled it off for 2 months kinda on a bet, then while doing just fine stubbornness took over.
The weirdest part is a far as the health, according to my doctor, fit for a 52 year old, just poor circulation in the one leg.
Just on the diet side, dam.
Never had any idea how bad the foods they have really are. Really the only way to eat is to make everything yourself because nothing you can buy pre made is of any good. I knew some of it was bad etc, but knowing what I know now no wonder America is FAT!!!
Now I'll have to plug a company most hate, but Walmart carries the biggest variety of heart healthy food of anyone here locally. From our 4 major grocery stores to even the 2 local so called healthy food vegan like stores!! Sad but true!

**KahanaReef** · 03-15-2013, 10:02 AM

It's true. Even when buying groceries, cooking at home and ditching the fast food joints. Processed foods will kill you. The sodium content alone is through the roof. It's amazing. Anything boxed, or canned will get you. You do have to make everything yourself with fresh ingredients. That way you control what you put into your body. 3 weeks isn't long enough to get any major results test wise. Perhaps a lower blood pressure if you've majorly cut the salt. The rest has been in the works for years clogging up your arteries.

Just like quitting smoking. 6 years of of being smoke free and feeling great physically for doing so, didn't stop my lungs from showing the early stages of emphysema in a CT scan... It was a little to little a little too late for me. I've got no one to blame but myself. Quitting was the smartest thing I've done. Too bad I didn't do it earlier... But, I will never end up the way my Father did. I quit in time for that

You can do it!

**5.0THIS** · 03-15-2013, 10:38 PM

Occasionally for lunch I eat the healthy choice frozen foods. For a packaged meal they're not bad on sodium at all. There are healthy processed foods out there, but they're few and far between, and you just have to look for them. As was stated though, cooking your own food with fresh ingredients is easily the best thing to do, it just isnt always the convenient thing to do.

**SeVeReDiStOrTiOn** · 03-16-2013, 11:05 AM

A whole foods diet with proper portions is the only way to go.

**Spikito** · 03-16-2013, 05:31 PM

I had a patient lose a leg about 2 months ago from this, just had another one lose two toes recently

**2ManySS's** · 03-17-2013, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by Spikito

I had a patient lose a leg about 2 months ago from this, just had another one lose two toes recently

Part that is confusing the doctors at this point is the amount of mobility I have in relation to blood flow. I have no problems other than what they call intermittent claudication , no sores etc and people with more blood flow have had amputations. I don't know if that good or bad in my case, but if I was to have let it go and other than my normal doctor finding I may have, then it wouldnt be anything less than from the hip down, no partial would have helped.
My diet wasn't that bad really, yeah I smoked but it was never even a pack day and I am hyper and always on the go. Not making excuses but that's how sneaky this is because people that really have bad diets, chain smoke, never even attempt any exercise may never develop this.
Well will find out Tuesday what the plan of action is!

**Zapper2003** · 03-17-2013, 11:38 AM

It kinda kills you mentally when you have to wait so long for decisions like this, considering it could affect your way of life for the rest of your time.