I just got home from work and found this email from Blake
Darleen,
Here is what I’ve received from Jeff regarding his health issues.
“Unfortunately, I’m in the hospital just now having my heart looked into. Blood pressure was high (dias) and I’ve developed a murmur.
So far so good. But Im being kept over night to do a stress echo to see if have any valve issues.
If you visit pw today put out the word. Just had an echo. Stress test is next
-Blake
Good thoughts, prayers and an extra shekel dropped in the tip jar would go a long way.
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Jeff in comments
Hi, all. Echo looked great, stress echo was great. I have a newly-found murmur, which I’m told is pretty common. Also, I had a few skipped beats, also within the normal realm.
The doctor’s think it’s a combo of stress and some elevated bloodpressure. They prescribed some BP meds, but I suspect I’ll be able to bring it down on my own.
Oh.. Shit. Get well buddy!
Get well soon. Ditto what Swen said.
godspeed mr. g.
Get well soon, Jeff.
Get well Jeff!
If Jeff’s in the hospital, who’s watching the armadillo?
oh, my. God…
hide your women and lock up your booze!
Son of a bitch.
Feel better, Jeff!
Hope your valves are in good shape.
Hi, all. Echo looked great, stress echo was great. I have a newly-found murmur, which I’m told is pretty common. Also, I had a few skipped beats, also within the normal realm.
The doctor’s think it’s a combo of stress and some elevated bloodpressure. They prescribed some BP meds, but I suspect I’ll be able to bring it down on my own.
When I went in, it was a after a day of feeling really anxious, breaking out my BP cuff, and seeing a 161/99.
Today when I got home from the hospital after passing all the tests, I was at 127 /78.
Seems having the cops called on you twice while the world crumbles around you and you’re trying to raise two young boys, including an infant, takes its toll on a guy. I was already susceptible to anxiety. I think this was a combination of several factors.
Still, nice to hear my heart is sound structurally.
thanks for all the well-wishes. I’m taking it easy for the rest of the day and maybe tomorrow. I ate like 2 meals over the course of 48 hours, so I’m very tired, very weak, and very woozy.
Tried to deadlift 500 when I got home and had to settle for 470. So. Weak. Very weak.
IT’S ALIVE!! Kewl.
Jeff, I’m glad you’re home and the echo didn’t show anything scary. Murmurs can occur spontaneously in men your age. Did they isolate what kind of a murmur it is?
If it’s anything like me, it’s mostly a generalized, disgruntled grumbling…
Good to hear the ticker’s sound, Chief.
Glad to hear you’re ok Jeff.
Now, where the hell is bh?
You had to “settle” for 470?
Good Lord.
This is precisely what tyranny looks like, people. It is a photo of an Obamerican subject being hauled off for “voluntary” questioning in the dead of night, in front of a mass of Ministry Of Propaganda cameras, for the Crime Against The State of exercising his supposed free speech “rights,” now nonexistent…for him, and for all of us. If this doesn’t get your blood absolutely boiling, and inspire both dismay and an ironclad determination to rid yourself of liberal-fascist tyranny once and for all, then crouch down and lick the hand that both feeds and enslaves you
http://coldfury.com/2012/09/16/obama-implements-blasphemy-law-sharia/
“Seems having the cops called on you twice while the world crumbles around you and you’re trying to raise two young boys, including an infant, takes its toll on a guy. I was already susceptible to anxiety.”
Yeah this has been a great couple of weeks so far. I was puking up around last Thursday. So I went to water, jello, bread and cold cuts and tried to listen to music and think about vidja games and my dog and cats more.
I have a slight heart murmur too but sometimes it goes away. I don’t know why that is but Internal Medicine dude guy tells me he’s not too worried about it. Mostly I get told to lose as much weight as a I can (He’s thinking 25 pounds would help) and work on flexibility because arthritis is working on my joints and I will probably be a walker and not a runner by the time I’m 50. I have also become a mega snorer which I’m told makes me a huge sleep apnea risk and probably means I will be on CPAP eventually. On the plus side my previously identified macular degeneration appears to me more of a mild static macular irregularity (specifically a pucker) that is not getting any worse so it’s not a case of degeneration at all.
My feet still look like shit though. I try to get the dry skin off but my foot…she just makes more. I’m told that I will have those “frito” toe nails so I’m thinking of just getting them removed. I find them to be less than useful in bringing down prey and so far their display has not facilitated mating. What can ya do?
The day I can swap my feet for little tractor treads that grip the ground is coming. As both Glenn reynolds and Michael Ledeen say (for different reasons) faster please!
“Total chaos?….Well what do you expect from a guy who can’t spell Oiho?”
Glad you’re okay. There must be a lot of stress going around– I’ve had palpitations every couple seconds since December. It’s happened twice before, both during election years…
yeah recapping current events is not the best job for someone with anxiety or heart issues. Please do not go all Brietbart on us. Personally I always feel much more relaxed when I drink. I will still read your blog if you resort to drunk posting. Thank goodness you’re not breast feeding.
Glad you’re back on your feet, Jeff.
Now, go eat your peas, potatoes and mountain of protein formerly known as a cow. Or chicken.
Good to hear you’re O.K., Jeff.
Unfortunately, I fear that the First Amendment is not making out as well as you, and may be in critical condition.
I’ve just been getting angrier and angrier since September. Eventually my senses will filter it out and I’ll enter a quasi autistic state and just make that disgruntled noise that Side Show Bob makes when he steps on rakes one after the other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EryhQdXTjP8
Damn Jeff. Hope you are feeling better, but if you’re watching the game….
Dayum.
See, this is what happens when you’re in good shape: your heart wears out.
And to think I just assembled my under-the-desk elliptical trainer a few minutes ago to get a tad more exercise than what I get now, which is roughly nothing.
Ninety-five bux, shot to hell.
I will still read your blog if you resort to drunk posting.
What makes you think he hasn’t been?
#HA!ha-ha-ha
dicentra, you could always try my morning exercise routine, 3 dogs, total combined weight of about 240 lbs, 2 miles and toss in the stray cat the dogs always seem to spot. The dogs have me by about 65lbs. Walking the dogs is interesting some mornings.
Cool, boss … I run off to take the boys to soccer practice and get back to seeing you home from the hospital and passing the tests.
Glad you’re OK Jeff. Take your meds. Eat your veggies. What is important is inside your front door. And enjoy your bonus rounds.
Been there done that. 5 stents.
I must have missed the second visit by the constables. What was that about?
Anxiety is a strong drug.
I was running 12 miles up to an 10,000+ summit and back one weekend, followed by a “Tough Mudder” event the next… and I totally crashed because of anxiety and stress. Heart? Lungs? Fine… my mind was so active that it was literally killing me.
My only advice is to find what works for you and go there.
Native Americans did the Sweat Lodge, others did Yoga. Now we combine them and do both. Whatever. Go shoot your new gun (hit the tip jar, ammo isn’t cheap).
Jeff, I sent you a funny video mash-up of MC Obama, set to Hammer’s “You Can’t Touch This” on Facebook.
Feel better.
Good to hear you’re okay, Jeff.
Feel better and stay better. You’re one of the good guys.
splitting wood with a big axe is good for stress.
Not so much for the neighbors’s stress though.
The “Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up” video by the same guy is pretty good too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE
Good to see a better ending than the title implied. Best to you.
Glad to see the good news update. Get well and stay well–those zombies aren’t going to shoot themselves.
I’m very glad to hear you’re okay, Jeff.
Glad to hear you’re doing alright.
Good news is hard to find lately. Glad you could send some out to all here. R&R prescribed, nice, enjoy.
I find ur blog very informational and will recommend it to all my sick friends
glad you’re doing well
Good to hear, boss.
Glad it’s less scary than it could have been. Even gladder this is the first I heard of it, or I would have wasted all that worry for nothing.
And I have to save up all my worry for things like whether Todd Akin’s wife’s recent remarks will re-elect Obama and turn the entire Congress over to the Democrats and hasten the end of the world as we know it.
On the bright side, if it does happen that way, like on or before December 20, the Mayans will be so pwn3d!
Damn Mayans. Smug bastards.
-Glad to hear you’re okay, Jeff.
Do whatever it takes to get back to blogifying. We need your rhetorical weapons in the coming mega-battles.
-palaeomerus: Get on the CPAP as soon as you can. I did in 2008 and have felt much better since [tell them you want the nose piece and not the mask – it’s a lot less intrusive and claustrophobic].
-What police visits? What did I miss? Links someone?
Oh, and thank you Darleen for the Update.
Great news! Out of the hospital! Lisinopril isn’t so bad, if that’s what they gave you.
Stress relief is anything that keeps your mind off of troubling events and happenstances (been there, still there). I found what works for me is a commitment to several things: 60-hr work weeks (for me, that’s stress relief) and a new puppy. Now 50+ lbs and shedding what seems twice her weight in short hairs every day!
(Oh. Laugh at shit more. At everybody, every thing, every chance you get. Truly a mindset that is also a great medicine.)
Here. Laugh at this stupidish biatch…
SWEET!
“Early last week Professor Sharon Sweet at Brevard Community College (BCC) allegedly told students to sign a pledge that reads: “I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.””
I’d have signed that ” I’m NOT paying you $60 resident -$280 non-resident a credit hour plus fees for this crap. Let’s go to talk to the provost after class. “
Snap! Away from electronics for a couple of days and look what happens.
Hope everything’s OK, keep an eye on the BP, relax a bit. Get well.
“Laugh at shit more”
I read that as ‘laugh AND shit more’ for some reason. Glad I went back and read it again to clear that up. Whew!
Good to hear all is well.
but I suspect I’ll be able to bring it down on my own.
You sound like my husband. Right before he had the mini-stroke.
Do what the nice doctor says for now, please.
I read that as ‘laugh AND shit more’ for some reason.
Sometimes that IS the best medicine, depending on what ails ya.
Link.
Visit #1.
Ugh, so officious bullyboy isn’t helping Jeff’s health either. Good God, why cannot people just mind their own business?
Sorry I’m late.. Just read about the hospital thing..
“Best wishes for a full recovery” seems a little over dramatic..
so, ya know.. lay off the stress so you dont have to take so much
BP medicine… It’ll just make you piss all the time.. and finding a gas station with an unlocked men’s room when you’re stuck in heavy 5 o’clock traffic is a bitch… but then so is driving with one eye while trying to pee in an old aluminum coke can… Feck! I dunno.. I’m no doctor.. Do what you wanna do.. but get better.
Thanks, geoffb.
You probably just need a nice, relaxing hobo hunt. Ask the ‘Dillo, he knows the good spots.
People that might be going hobo in the next four years looking for work and pay in new dollars might want to cut back on those hobo hunting jokes. HooverTowns might not be so funny either.
“Stress – it’s what for breakfast!”
Been there, done that. Be careful, JG, it’s a killer.
“Nice” neighbors all over.
Well, since I’ve been diagnosed with an incurable case of doom fatigue, I’ll be happy to take up the slack of anyone who wants to swear off the jokes.
“splitting wood with a big axe is good for stress.
Not so much for the neighbors’s stress though.”
It’s the smile and the giggling as you chop that puts them off, I think.
Jeff, yes, exercise helps BP, it did mine, but with all the exercise you already do, if you’re still fizzing you might want to think about those pills.
Side note, the weekend I donated blood after Bush won in 2004 my BP had dropped nearly thirty points…
Oh, I won’t be a hobo.
I’l be Hell on Wheels…