I know, you thought I abandoned this blog, and you would be partially right. It has been a busy, busy spring and summer.I figured my little Etsy shop would fade back during the summer months and give me time to leisurely sew up some things for when the Christmas shopping season started. That wasn't the case. Add to that my normal gardening season (and we went a little nuts with the planting), helping my mom with cleaning out the basement of her house (Big basement),preparing our previous back deck area to become a porch, only to find out we couldn't get a concrete truck in there so it's back to a deck, and so forth and so on....It was a little crazy.
I have managed to keep my weight at 168, which is good cause it's been hard to eat exactly on plan. Activity is what saved me. I would like to say things have slowed down, but that is not the case. As we speak I have about 5 outfits and 4 sets of diapers, all custom ordered, in the works. The deck is being built, though not by us. Some wonderful friends are helping us out. But I still have a long list of things that need addressing before the weather turns off cold.
And I had a heart attack. Not a big one. It was mild. Didn't feel mild when it was happening. I can say I would rather have a baby than feel that pain again. But, there were no blockages, and my cholesterol is good. They actually have no idea why I had a heart attack. I have a family history, so I'm sure that's part of it, but with no blockages they don't know what it was. I could have passed a small clot thru my heart. That's what my endocrinologist thinks (and my nurse Hubby). Nobody knows! Well except God!
Even though my cholesterol was good and there were no blockages, they put me on a cholesterol lowering med, and I reluctantly agreed. From the time I was discharged two weeks ago to the night before my follow up, I took this pill at night as prescribed. Every morning I would get up and have twinges of chest pain. It's a little nerve racking to have that after a heart attack, but by lunch there was no problem and I felt normal. Finally the night before my follow up with the cardiologist, I decided not to take it and see what happened. Yep, woke up the next day and felt like my old self. No pain. I brought this up to the nurse practitioner and asked her why they wanted me on it when I had good cholesterol and no blockages. She said that while my cholesterol was good, in heart patients they want the LDL (bad) cholesterol to be in the less than 70 and mine was in the 89. I asked her, since I'm so close anyway, couldn't I use diet and exercise to get it where they want it? She said I could. So no cholesterol pill!
She seemed surprised, and it made me wonder if maybe she hears more patients just want a pill instead of making any changes. In all honestly, I'm not making many new changes except using more Extra Virgin olive oil, eating more cholesterol lowering foods, and just getting refocused on what I was doing before. But having a heart attack gives you real motivation to stay on track. First of all, I never want to go thru that again, and second, I never want to have to take a pill to fix something with my body.
I'd love to say all was right with my world after that...It wasn't.
This is going to be long, so I will end the heart saga here and save the rest for another day!
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