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This nice forum software advises me this thread is quite old, and would I like to start a new one?
Well, I'm quite old, and while I'd like to rewind about 7 years to my younger, fitter self, that shit isn't happening. Still, new thread. Whatever.
So, where to begin? Heart surgery - let's do that. Save a bunch of bullshit and play the footage, Jeeves:
Pretty cool eh? They went in via my groin while I was under - fuck I love general - and I woke up a couple of hours later in compression socks with new hardware I can't even show off.
Basically this thing is designed to close a Patent Formalen Ovale (we in the biz call them a PFO), or a hole between the upper chambers . You all had one at one stage, but 75% of people have theirs close up after birth. The rest generally don't know they've got one unless they have stupid shit go wrong.
In my case, the cardiologists think it is the cause of my migraine/vision shit when I exercise; deoxygenated blood coming into the right chamber for a topup of gas is diverted into the left chamber under pressure, and then goes straight out the gate, into the brain. Vision starts to dim, body thinks "Fuck! Pump harder dickhead!" and the circulation causes the migraine.
I'm a month post-op now so the doc wants me to build up the exercise again. I'm sooooooooo fucking tired tho that it is a struggle to get out of bed.
Throw in work being a right pack of fluffybunnies and I'm in need of endorphins. Walking the next couple of weeks, building up into a gentle run in May.
Funny thing is I lost weight during recovery, so assume it was a bit of reduction in muscle as I was doing the gym thing with the boy before surgery. Back into lifting tin as soon as every bastard settles down on this COVID thing.
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@voodoo it really is. To think everything used to be open heart mere decades ago, and now smart bastards have figured this out.
Had a follow up with the cardiologist today and all looks good so far.
EDIT: he showed me the ultrasound and you can see where the device is due to the thickening of the flesh where it is growing around the thingo. It was rad.
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Lucky you didn't need a multioptipupiloptomy
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Been doing some early morning walking, as I tend to wake up around 0600 for completely fucking unknown reasons.
Have put in some light jogging during this and things seem to be improved over the vision/migraine issues BUT early days.
Today the kids were both home from school. The boy had PE for his last session today, and his teacher really phoned it in giving options of 20-30 minute jog OR bike ride OR a circuit of squats/lunges/pushups/situps etc
I gave him the option and he took bike ride, so a gentle 6.6km later we'd clocked 26 minutes @ 15km/h which is pathetic. But the kid isn't that active so its a start.
Gym has closed and payments suspended, so gotta do something.
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What with one thing and another, you’ve been through the wringer mate but the main thing is your positivity. Keep that up and your halfway there. Good on you Nick.
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me and the boy started doign a workout at 5 (when I finish work) need to get daughter more active though.
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y'all are gonna come out with that prison body
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@mariner4life said in Back for more!:
y'all are gonna come out with that prison body
Ha! I had that exact same thought the other day. Another month locked up at home is an opportunity to shred, particularly as food supplies run low*
I looked at the last weight chart I set up on New Year and projected I should be about this weight a month ago, so...
However, the doctor did warn me that one cholesterol issue (a partial blockage in one artery) could also be related to my weight loss efforts a couple of years back. Can't win, really
If I target 500g per week, then by end of April I'll be at around 98.
*Note: My wife is half italian. Food will never run low
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@mariner4life getting my 3year old to ink me up brah. Probably end up with better tats than most lol.
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I moved to Bali 3 months ago, weighed 105kgs.
Didn't really ramp up the exercise massively given heat and humidity, but totally changed eating habits. Ate much earlier in the evening, smaller portions. Cut a lot of wine out.
Left Bali a few weeks ago at 96kgs.
Currently in Queenstown working on restoring my former glory.
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@Paekakboyz said in Back for more!:
6am!! might as well hassle the missus bro
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Just looked at the private health for my operation - I paid $70 out pocket at the hospital, and another $75 for follow up medication and radiology.
Health fund paid out nearly TWENTY. FUCKING. THOUSAND.
Last time I'll bitch about the premiums... For a while...
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Weather has been shit lately for the most part. And I've been enjoying beer.
But I have a goal: Next stress echo is on May 13th, and the doc said I should be back running by then.
So that means I've got to have a plan! This week i need to resume running (of a sort) and build into a 5km run so let's do this Monday/Wednesday/Friday of each week, with maybe a bike ride Sundays:
Week 1: 3km jog/shuffle at any pace
Week 2: 3km under 19.5 minutes (6:30/km)
Week 3: 5km jog/shuffle any pace
Week 4: 5km under 35 minutes
Week 5: 5km under 30 minutes
Week 6: 5km under 28 minutesReckon that is achievable if the circulatory system stands up to it. By the time I hit that treadmill, shirtless and covered in electrodes, I reckon I'll avoid making a complete idiot out of myself in front of the cute little radiologist.
EDIT: will bookend the 3km work with 1km walking each end as a warm up / cool down. No need to be stupid. If I consistently hit the goals early, I'll bring things forward.