widow maker

ive been thru this before just a little different location,this is my 5 stint it started when i just lost all my energy and had spells of pain from my chest up the side of my neck and out my left arm thats when i had 3 stints. in january i felt weak and no energy not a lot of pain 1 stint in back of heart.then for about i had a few spells dull pain in center of chest a few sharp pains pain going under arms so i had a quick heart cath and found a 99 percent blockage in left main artery it was the widow maker but he got to it in time

 

Plate of cornflakes, about 3/4 cup and cup of coffee with low fat milk for breakfast.

Lunch usually 2 x multigrain bread, filled with fish, or two slices ham, lettuce, (usually mixed variety) tomatoe, cucumber, grated carrot, grated radish, egg (sometimes), low fat salad dressing, (teaspoon, but not too much more), cup of tea or coffee with low fat milk.

Dinner, two chicken thighs, cooked in smear of oil, often in slow cooker, with an onion, or part, sweet potatoe, broccoli, carrots, beans, pickled beetroot, (in vinegar), I also throw together a soup/stew, we eat as both, 2 x onions, whole celery, 4 - 5 carrots, 2 or 3 leeks, tin of tomatoes, couple of chicken stock cubes, cabbage, put in slow cooker and leave it go for about 4 - 5 hours, and sometimes half a cup of water, if looks a little dry, but usually just as it is after rinsing veges, under water tap.

Snacks between, oranges, some grapes, watermelon in season, strawberries in season.

AVOID  biscuits, soft drinks, fruit cordials, pre-prepared fruit juice, all loaded with sugars, anything with salt, as on low salt diet due to husbands heart condition. 

Shocked to see what others have in their supermarket trollies, some time I just feel like saying something, but don't, pkts of chips, biscuits, pre-prepared meals, dried soups in packets, far toooo much salt.

Grow own cherry tomatoes, radish, lettuce, beans, parsley, chives, oranges, lemons, so keep ourselvesin some of our fresh fruit and veges.

I do not know your health goals but what I can say is you are on the right track but some minor tweaking would be good.  Would you consider replacing cornflakes for a bowl of oatmeal with blueberries, strawberries and raspberries with soy milk or almond milk?   Decaff  coffee with almond milk drop the low fat milk unless organic.  Ham is a processed foods usually salty but you don't want to be eating processed meats or ham.

IMO you are eating too much animal protein.  Is the chicken  thighs organic free range?  More leafy greens and vegetables.  This is just a few suggestions as my diet is even more strict as I have 2 blocked arteries. Now if you are in the pink of health disregard what I have said and just enjoy.

Thankyou for your reply, long term plan is to stay off the junk food, and slowly lose some excess weight.

Prefer our local smoked ham from a butcher we know, he prepares it the old fashioned way and then smokes it, spectacular ham, and just how I remember from when dad did our own ham when we were kids, brought up on a farm growing all our own milk, beef, pigs, & ham, chickens, and vegetables, tomatoes by the hundreds, and a pumpkin patch that had about 6 different varieties, an acre or more of all you could eat, with a huge orchard of every tree you could imagine, oranges, grapefurits, lemons, apples, pears, walnuts, a  passionfruit that was like a triffid, took over completely a huge frame, and then the concrete water tank. Everything fed on cow manure and silage that wasn't suitable to feed the cows during winter, Dad always only fed them the pickled grass that was nice and clean, had to make sure the milk was the right standard, as we were on town milk supply, very high standards had to be met every tank tested for bacteria, and if contaminated it could be dumped, and you also not paid for milk, rest when to the vege garden and orchard by the trailer load as compost.

Ham just a taste, and chicken thighs, are just the muscle of the thigh only, about 2-3 inches long, and around the bone, cook them slowly, as do not dry out like chicken breast does and less meat than breast.

If anything, we eat less meat than we should , dietian showed me a dinner plate of what we should be eating, and I told her I would be 22 stone if I ate like that.

Green veges, have to be careful with husband as he is on blood thinners, due to heart condition, spinach/silverbeet, more than once a week and he starts bleeding into his tissue, Dr's advice was don't eat so much green veges.

What a nightmare with blocked arteries, husband has been found to be very lucky, no blocked arteries, they seem to think his heart issue was caused by a virus that attacked his heart muscle, and has closed down his electrical impluses in his heart, pacemaker on defib installed within 36 hours, after they figured out what was going on at heart hospital.

Sounds like you know what you are doing.  Yes your husband was very lucky.  My situation is very different and I am taking the unpopular approach from conventional medicine to remove my blockages naturally with the guidance of a world renown cardiologist who says it can be done with 10 years credit and scientific research  DR. Caldwell Esselstyn.

In an earlier post you said I  was running out of time and I had to take care of this ASAP  which was somewhat alarming.  But when I talked to the  Dr. he has treated patients with 100% blockages successfully. But will have plan B if I do not see the progress I am looking for after a few months

I do like  talking about this with caring, experienced, people always willing to learn.  Are you in Europe somewhere?  I am in Thailand medical is pretty good here.

I and family in Brisbane Australia, very good Heart hospital here, Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, which is a suburb of greater Brisbane.

They do Heart and lung transplants, have met some of the patients, amazing just how quickly they get well after in the case we met, had been a permanent resident of hospital for 18 months previous, and was 6 six weeks on from transplant, amazing does not start to describe how well he was.

When husband first got sick, I just knew there was something not right with him, went to local GP who did an ECG, and said no problems, other than left branch bundle block (nerve), and he could have had that his entire life.

a few weeks went past, and husband said he was getting more and more breathless, and when he came home, would sit down on the couch, and immediately fall off to sleep, wake up, have dinner, fall back to sleep again, then one day during this sleep/wake pattern I noticed he was sweating up a storm, I decided there was something really wrong and rang an ambulance, transported to local hospital where they told me he was in congestive heart failure, (lungs fall of fluid), medicine given to him which made him pee like crazy, during the process he passed a clot, presumably out of his heart,

screaming in pain, ER found clot in leg with ultrasound, put on ICU for the night, Dr visited in the morning, and said he's OK discharge him, nurses were shocked, as was I, monitor showing his oxygen at 81%, after Dr left, nurses told me to take him immediately to Prince Charles hospital, they were full of questions, husband transferred by ambulance, NO, they could not believe it, no discharged from small local hospital,  again questioned, how had he not been transferred, so how did he get here, I drove him, WHAT????.

End result in Pr Charles diagnosed him with Dialated Cardiomyopathy, with left branch bundle block, x-rays, CAT scans, MRI, Echocardiogram, ECGS, Pr Charles kept him 8 days.

During his admittance, I started to educate myself, books from the local library, cardio books from local Dr, papers available on the internet, Dr to Dr papers from university sites, senior Dr's have even ended up asking me if I am a nurse, and then followed up with asking how I knew he was sick, a lot of was sub-conscious, later realised Dad had dialated cardiomyopathy when I was born, and I lived with him until I got married, so recognised the symptoms, but maybe not even thinking about it, I JUST KNEW.

Sister who is in a very senior nursing position, incl teaching said to me laughing of course you would recognise the symptoms, not very impressed with her at first because I was in soooo much shock, but relaise with hind site she was right.