I do feel better laying off sugar and carbs. Lead a pretty active lifestyle. Just part of getting old. Feel really blessed when you see and hear of others thats got serious trouble. hope your wife gets along good. Got a brother-in-law in Nappanee, not far from you I guess. Hear they got some pretty good corn fed deer in the area.
Yah, corn fed everything around here, even the nasty ole raccoons are corn fed.
Wife was born with tetralogy of fallot, I spend half a day trying to find a specialist in state that could look at her after she starting having problems during the summer of 2010. Pulmonary hypertension was the diagnosis but with her previous 2 surgeries when she was a child a regular cardiologist would give a few ideals what needed done but all said she had to find an adult congenital heart defect specialist that’s dealt with her situation before. The Heart Center of Indiana at St. Vincents was our last shot in state and they happened to have a wonderful doctor by the name of Dr. Segar who was more than glad to help her out. Was difficult to find a specialist who had dealt with her situation in adults as the simple fact that most in the 60’s and 70’s who were born with her condition never reached adulthood. If it wasn’t for Dr/ Segar at St. Vincents my net call was going to be the Cleveland Clinic followed by Mayo’s Clinic after that.
Just seen Dr. Segar yesterday, he’s very pleased with her progress. Will see him again next year in Indy.
Part of the premise that the un Affordable Care Act was passed on is a lie, the wife lost her good job where she was a line supervisor that had insurance when she refused to take night classes to learn spanish so she could communicate better with some of the employees. She told em if they are going to live in the USA they’d better be learning English instead, I told her good girl and they found a way to let her go within a month. I would have brought it up with the Indiana department of labor or a lawyer but she let it go as she was ready to quit anyways.
She was working in a nursing home when she collapsed in November of 2008 as a temp while she was waiting to be hired in so no insurance yet, was in A fib when a co worker found her and took three RN’s to keep her going until a AED showed up as they didn’t have a defibrillator in the nursing home as it was considered an end care facility.
Given her pre existing conditions then I couldn’t buy her insurance even if I hit the lottery, the doctor we still see now for her AICD came in after hours with his own nurses and installed the first AICD and we never seen a bill for it, not only did he work gratis he got St. Judes to donate it to her and didn’t charge us for follow up office visits for the first year. Did a butt ton of paper work and the hospital also waved their fees. He replaced the AICD this last March as the original ones battery was about used up and gave us his personal cell number as he didn’t want us having to deal with his call service once I got her home.
When she started having chest pains in 2010 and I finally found Dr. Segar I talked to the financial aid department of St. Vincents and they said not to worry about paying for it but lets get her healthy first. Faxed them several years worth of tax returns, bank statements etc. and their financial assistance department got the wife on medicare.
So the whole rallying cry behind the Affordable Care Act of if you don’t have insurance your going to die is a lie, much like many others the government tells to get more citizens under their intrusive thumb.
An interesting tidbit about Dr. Hadian, he and several family members walked out of Iran thru the mountains in the dead of winter after the Ayatollah Khomeini took over and Dr. Hadians father was executed for being an undesirable (too outspoken). They found there way to Holland as Djavids mother was dutch. Both my mom and mother in law thinks he’s a very attractive man, never much noticed myself but he still has a heavy accent as he married a dutch woman and that’s all they speak at home, took years to completely understand him without having to have something repeated. I’m usually quick to defend some of those “damn foreign” doctors if I hear somebody complaining about one given all that Dr. Hadian as done for my wife.