RE: up date

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Thanks to all for warm wishes. I'm sure your right about my need to slow

down. It's hard though when one has always been a busy bee personality!

Re: up date

Hi Pat,

Take good care of yourself. You will be in my thoughts and prayers. Maybe

your body is telling you to slow down for a time.

Sharon

up date

> Last week I had a " mild to moderate " heart attack (MI). As my heart is

> not

> in good shape, an angiogram could not be done, so I have now been put on

> another pill (I take 17 in all), which basically masks the pain of further

> angina. I don't know if this good or bad as I may not feel the symptoms

> of

> another heart attack.

> My husband threatened to break my legs to keep me from going places (I'm a

> runner-going places daily), but I am convinced I need to keep the activity

> level down for a while. I have to see my endo today as the MI put me

> into

> DKA. Apparently everyone-not only diabetics-have the liver put out

> about600

> times the normal glucogen when you have a heart attack. I had benhaving

> heart pain for several days and bee treating it as angina. When nitro, 4

> baby asprins and then vomitng proved to me it realy was a heart atack, I

> had

> the taxi starter at The Braille Institue call 911. I spent 2 days in ICU

> and then came home yesterday. they forgot to give me the daily 80 mgm of

> lasix take, so I gained 11 pounds in 5 days! I have alreadylost about 5

> pounds o that with big doses of laxis, but I was short of breath and they

> thought I might need oxygen. but as I lost some the water, the breating

> has

> improved.

> Glad to be home!

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