As of my latest visit with my cardiac doc, I have about 30% +/- remaining heart function, but since I have not had a repeat cardiac incident since, they let me stop wearing a LifeVest (portable defibrulator machine that weighed about 15 pounds) day and night. I'm down from about 13 daily medications to just 8, so, my life is very slowly returning to normal-ish.
Blood sugar has been 'normal' every day for over a month now and my diet (and later blood tests) have been good. Down 40 pounds and close enough now to my goal weight that I'm enjoying a 'cheat' weekend. Did you know that pumpkin (pie) is an excellent food for reducing blood sugar?
My main issue now is ultra-low blood pressure. I'm 80/60 now at best (on a good day) and have many more often bad days where I'm 60/50-ish. This gives me constant dizzy spells and most days I can't (or shouldn't) drive. I can only walk (or talk) for short periods of time before I begin gasping for breath. Not to mention the near constant brain fog... this is pretty much keeping me unable to write once more.
I thought I would sit down a few days ago and try to finish up Born Under a Baad Sign... but I couldn't even remember clearly in my head what had already taken place, or what needed to occur next. My written outline for this was skimpy and my usual ability to write 98% of a story in my head first, then type it, is currently toast. Sorry...
Too many days being spent being quiet on the sofa watching old History channel programs, Great British Baking, and endless Bigfoot documentaries... lol. I did fix some minor PC problems a day last week when I was feeling almost 'myself' (another bad power supply) and cruised the Amazon Black Friday sales for a few small upgrades :)
eBay got extremely unhappy with me being in the hospital (and away from a computer) for nearly a month and crippled my selling account I've had since 1998. I've made 4 phone calls to customer service who always say my account will be fixed... but it still isn't. Etsy had no problems, fortunately, and I'm moving more and more things there. This is my 'play money' and thank God I don't rely on this for mortgage and groceries! I think I need to file for SS Disability, but I've been procrastinating.
Really, really, really need to do a chapter of my Christmas serial (When the Hunter) but I need a good day when my BP is up and my head is sharp... and I only get about one of those a week, currently, and then have to take care of the wife, errands, and everything else that didn't get done that week.
Anyway... I wanted to give everyone a brief update. I'd like to think that I'm improving and getting better, but the progress has been glacially slow.