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How familiar is the cardiologist with your MIL? Long time patient? If not, if I were your husband I'd call the dr. office and clue them in in advance of the appointment.
After about 3 years it was 20%. last year 21.5. They have me scheduled for a stress test the end of january.
I did drink a lot of coke and OJ. And did smoke. Stopped al the bad stuff and lost 40 pounds. Just eating less, moving more. I was a truck driver, no exercise at all.....
How familiar is the cardiologist with your MIL? Long time patient? If not, if I were your husband I'd call the dr. office and clue them in in advance of the appointment.
We moved her here from NJ back in July, so he's only known her for 6 months. But we did get all of her records transferred over.
After about 3 years it was 20%. last year 21.5. They have me scheduled for a stress test the end of january.
I did drink a lot of coke and OJ. And did smoke. Stopped al the bad stuff and lost 40 pounds. Just eating less, moving more. I was a truck driver, no exercise at all.....
I did read on the Harvard site that "One person might have an ejection fraction of 20% and be very physically active, whereas another may be completely debilitated with a value of 35%."
So apparently that walking is really helping. Is your stress test nuclear? I know two people who died a few days after taking and passing the treadmill stress tests.
Heart disease is worsened by lifestyle factors that are within people's power to change. Overweight or worse, obesity, is never a good thing w/ heart disease. Your heart is weaker, plus the weight, which causes the heart pump to work harder, plus poor activity tolerance from inactivity. Then, if you look at obesity, most have inflammation. Poor food choices, smoking, inactivity, etc. lead to inflammation, making things worse, too.
The human body has an amazing ability to heal and recover.
With people who are very sick, the major healing and recovery, really only has a chance to come-about, with major changes to the person's lifestyle. That is a very hard thing for many people.........someone who is advanced in age and is adapted to living an unhealthy life, nearly impossible.
One way to look at it but not the only way. I belong to a cancer group on Facebook and you would be surprised at how many people state they were always healthy, ate right, exercised regularly, were in good physical shape, never smoked, and after a lifetime of health suddenly got cancer. I was one of them. I also got heart disease at 70. My father, his two brothers and his mother all died of heart attacks in their 50's and early 60's. My Dad was a recreational cyclist and didn't have an ounce of fat on his body. My father in law was 100 lbs. overweight his whole life, never exercised, lived his last 20 years on microwave hot pockets, cold cuts, canned soup, chocolate, fortifed table wine and scotch and lived to 90. He only died when he broke his leg and got a hospital infection after surgery. I think it's primarily genes. The rest is a crapshoot. Everyone is an individual. Whatever statistics apply to the group don't predict what will happen to any individual in the group.
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The human body has an amazing ability to heal and recover.
With people who are very sick, the major healing and recovery, really only has a chance to come-about, with major changes to the person's lifestyle. That is a very hard thing for many people.........someone who is advanced in age and is adapted to living an unhealthy life, nearly impossible.
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The AHA American Heart Association has a forum where people post things, find support. www.supportnetwork.heart.org
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