All well that ends well

[Plumbtorre]

A year ago I had a triple bypass and a mitral valve replacement. During the year I have been concious of every twinge in my chest and it was always at the back of my mind that thete was a lot of things i couldnt do my confidence was low. Anyway a few days ago I tripped and smashed my face into the road surface. I remember getting to my hands and knees and wondering what had happened, why I couldn't breathe and where all the blood was coming from. My sternum felt like I had been hit with a red hot axe. Some kind people helped me to get home as I refused to go to hospital. Because I am on Sintrom ( the Spanish blood thinner) my nose bled for quite a while and I also got the biggest black eye I have ever seen. Later i went to the hospital and they confirmed no fractured skull and only bruised ribs. The sternum pain has gone completely and I am now 100% confident that my sternum has healed and can withstand a heavy impact ,my heart can accelerate when needed and slow down again, and I know the correct exercises for my bruised ribs and they are healing fast. The fall did me a good turn and my confidence has returned and intend to do more exercise than just 1 hr walking daily.

[jimmyq]

If you have had bypass surgery you have at least 1 blocked arteries. I have had 5. I recommend that you watch the film "Forks Over Knives". It will show you that you can clear out your arteries. It is on a website of the same name, Netflix, YouTube. It is about medical dietary research, including a massive study of 800,000 Chinese people. You might find it helpful, I did.

The ideal BP is 120/80. Mine has been as high as 240/140 but went down to 190/100 with treatment in 2016. I still had a mini-stroke in 2017 though. I started a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) lifestyle in March 2018. My BP is now 120/80.

The ideal cholesterol is below 5. Mine was 6.5 for years, nothing budged it until this diet. It is now 3.7.

My weight was 14.5st and is now 12.5st, the same as when I was in my twenties.

If my arteries were still blocked my blood pressure would still be up. This means that my arteries must be clearing out.

[Plumbtorre in reply to jimmyq]

Mate I had 3 blocked 95% plus a leaking mitral valve. I had high stress jobs in remote locations and lived on takeaways and similar for 5 years ,sometimes working more than 90 hrs a week ....never again