Tinpusher63

Being diagnosed with heart failure.
I've known for a long time it was the going to be the outcome of my coronary artery disease.
However it really smacks you between the eyes when you actually get told you are there.

uk_grenada

I always think heart failure is an overly dramatic phrase, if my anatomy is right that means you are dead, I have it too but I’m told it just means my pumps at 80% efficiency which my cardio man says isn’t an issue ever but life can be extended further by careful exercise monitoring and a few pills. Mine was caused by a virus which is unfortunate but I’m again told if I was a smoker instead I would be worse off.

Jingsamichty

Sorry to hear things ain't great Steve. Hope you can enjoy day to day life though, even if it means taking everything easy.

Tinpusher63

Thanks Jings. It's early days as yet so I'm not sure where I fit on the continuum. Life has very much slowed down, having difficulty walking more than a block or so.
However I'm still here looking at the green side of the grass as it were not up at the roots.

dbd33

Oh my, good luck. I hope you can adjust and be happy at a slower pace.

Tinpusher63

Perhaps I should have been more specific. I have congestive heart failure.

I'm sorry to hear your heart was attacked by a virus but happy to hear that it only affected 20% of its efficiency.

I suggest you research life expectancy for CHF patients before you say it's an overly dramatic phrase. For most with that diagnosis you're right it doesn't mean they're dead, but it means they will be in ten years or less, mostly less.

Souvy

Bloody hell, Hangman! You don't have much luck with your health, do you?

I take personal responsibility for the CHF. I should never have told you about Balderson cheddar.

Tinpusher63

Thank you both for the thoughts.

It has been quite the roller coaster ride for the last twenty-one and a half years. However if it weren't for good surgeons and cardiologists I'd have checked out back in 1996 or at least some point in between. So in a sense it has been a pretty good run. I'm sure I've got a few years yet so it's just one day at a time from now on.

Hangman, that's going back a ways good for you for remembering. Ah yes Balderson's. I'll tell my cardiogist it's all your fault

Steve

Pizzawheel

As with many things, the massive buying power of the retailers has forced even the name manufacturers to produce cut-price products.

Levis do their "signature" range for wal-mart. I recall them being under $20; they don't have that red tab that real levi's have.

Thing is, I actually prefer my walmart cheapo levi's for comfort & practicality over the real thing (I think mine are 512s. As a beer drinking man, 501s and button flies are not a practical solution).

Siouxie

So sorry to hear that you are suffering with CHF, several members of my family have / have had it and you are right, unless there's an intervention possible medically which can extend things, life expectancy isn't that great.

Sounds like you are doing all the right things to stretch it out - long may it last!

Partially discharged

My wife, a very youthful looking and acting 55 year old (I'm 53) was at Shoppers Drug Mart yesterday when it was 20% off for all seniors. She asked what the minimum age was for the seniors discount and was told 50. Yikes, that does make me feel old although I'm the oldest guy on my 'old timers' football team (must be over 35).

BristolUK

Every time I check, it's 65 here. I think where Bats is it's lower.

I just checked again and it still said 65 on a page that included several provinces. A couple of non shoppers sites (including Globe and Mail) suggest it might even vary by individual store not just province.

But Lawtons pharmacy (significantly cheaper than Shoppers anyway) has 55+ and I've been benefiting from that a good few years. Every week too

Feeling old is when they do it without being prompted and you're only just old enough.

Teaandtoday5

This post has significantly improved my weekend. Clearing receipts out of the car today I noticed that I had been given the seniors discount onThursday. I have been all day.

not2old

70 isn't old, well at least too me

I feel young young compared to my 98 year old about to turn 99 FIL who continues to tell me 'you are young & don't know what its like to feel old'

The day he pops his clogs, that's the day I will feel old

side note 55 years ago this week when I was age 16 the Beatles released 'Please Please Me'

bats

sdv Yep, 55 at Shoppers and at least one store has senior day every Thursday and not just the last in the month.