It's possible.
I have a blockage in my main artery called Occlusion of the Aorta.
It goes from my bellybutton to my pelvic bone.
In 2015 I started having trouble walking, I could go about 10 feet before I hit concrete.
My hubby at the time was going in to have a CDL test done. I forget the name for the physical exam you take every year.
So he told me to tell the doc what was happening.
Immediately he told me I had a blockage and I needed to go the hospital and get an MRA.
I did, and that's when they told me.
The heart specialist said I had a year to live unless i got this surgery that replaced the Aorta.
That's a heck of a surgery.
We didn't have health insurance so we ended up getting a divorce so I could get insurance.
The SYSTEM is RIGGED!!
Anywho,
not long after he got the same thing. And he opted to get the surgery. He made it.
But it took almost 5 months of recovery. I did everything, coo, clean, shop, bathe, you name it, while I was still experienceing the same problem of not being able to get around much.
Finally he asked me if I was getting it done, and I asked him if he was going to stay home for 5 months and help me recover.......
Have to work, pay the bills, I got things to do.
ok.
So I never got it done.
10 years later he had a heartattack and passed away on the livingroom floor. I wasn't there at the time. I had moved to Maine because Irma the Hurricane in Florida had wiped everything out.
So my dad said I could stay in the mobile home on the property where I am now. He was living with his girlfriend until he had his stroke.
That's about 2 years ago now.
According to the heart specialist I should be dead, But God has other plans.
Somebody needed to take care of dad. His girlfriend abandoned us once he signed the Will over to my daughter.
He don't have much. 3 acres of overgrown woods and a mobile home and a garage that I can't get to anymore.
His CNA that comes to the house picks up my mail. I have my groceries delivered. I don't need to leave the house and I don't want to leave him alone either.
So here we are.
I mean, it's possible. Anything is possible.
I'm on borrowed time and I'm not complaining.
ust concerned I seen it happening in others too.
Congress people , couldn't focus, after that Ballgame they had a week or so ago.
They came back into session and they was like me. blah.
That's why I started the thread. Thought maybe something was going round.
But this aorta thing I got..
let me tell ya,
SUGAR IS POISON.
Sugar crystals can scratch the inside of your artery, which in turns collects cholesterol. Over time that begins to harden and you end up with a blockage. If I had gone sooner they may have been able to use a stint, but by the time I went, they was afraid if they put pressure on it and it broke I would bleed out.
I wrote a thread when I first come here sometime 2020ish. How Sweet It Is.
Don't know if it's still archived or not.
ok,
Much Love
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