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Wes Tender

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Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery, Whitey. From what I understand from a long time friend who underwent the same, you are in very good hands at Southampton, who have some of the foremost specialists in the field as far as I'm aware. Once it's all done, I expect and hope that you'll have a new lease of life for many years to come.

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Badger

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Best wishes Whitey.

 

And thank you for the openness of your original post; a kick up the arse for many of us to reflect on our lifestyles.

 

So, wishing you a speedy recovery and in best traditions of this board:

 

WOOT for Whitey, and

WIFW !

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Secret Site Agent

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I'm lying in Southampton General waiting for a date next week for a coronary bypass operation. Had a 'small' heart attack Tuesday morning and was brought in thinking it might be indigestion but blood tests showed otherwise. Angiogram yesterday showed all three coronary arteries almost blocked in several places do a bypass is the only realistic long-term solution. I've never smoked but I had got overweight and not eaten particularly sensibly and diabetes had set in. Used to get home and have dinner too late, worked too much in the evenings so please all of you, eat sensibly, sort out your lifestyles and don't think it won't happen to you.

 

Don't need a love in, but far to many Saints vs Saints on this board.

 

Get better Whitey .....looking forward to reading the bollcoks you spout very shortly
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;)
;)
;)

 

Umm, sounds a lot like me.

 

Get well soon, we're thinking of you.

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dellgirl

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My brother- in -law had a heart attack watching Saints in an away match last season ! The hospital did a wonderful job on him and he is back to full fitness and sure they will do the same for you, wishing you the very best of luck.

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My son is a doctor at Southampton General and says the team there are top notch! all the best

 

You hear a lot of moans and groans about the NHS but I have to say through personal experience, when the **** hits the fan for someone the staff up there are the dogs danglies.

All the best for a speedy recovery Whitey, you're in good hands.

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saint1977

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Best of luck Whitey, I've never had the pleasure of meeting you but you sound like a top fella. You are in superb hands medically-speaking too so you'll have a long time ahead of watching Saints - can't make up my mind if that's a good or a bad thing actually!

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Whitey Grandad

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Well lads and lasses, I have been totally overwhelmed by all you kind words and I can't tell you how much it means to me when I'm stuck in here. You have all stopped me from climbing up the walls. I have had time to think and if you'll excuse the ramblings of a boring old git I'd like to share some of my thoughts with you.

 

'He who does not find time for recreation must sooner or later make time for illness' is supposedly a Chinese proverb, although which Christmas cracker it comes from I've yet to establish. I thought I was reasonably fit, or at least that I used to be. I played football locally on Sunday mornings and later refereed but I was getting old and thought that business men like me did not need to exercise and were entitled to take things easy and drive around in luxury. The weight increased slowly, especially around the middle, and the trouser sizes crept up until Marks & Spencer no longer stocked my sizes. Then last year I found that I was seeing a lot and feeling dry in the mouth which are classic signs of diabetes. A urine glucose test had me called to the doctor urgently and now diagnosed with type 2 diabetes I started a programme of sensible eating and extra exercise, nothing too onerous but there were years of neglect needing to be reversed. I now think I know how I got there. Chronic stress is a much misunderstood term and doesn't mean that you spend all day tearing your hair out. You set yourself targets, maybe you have high ideals, perhaps you just want to get going and do everything at once. You work later in the evening, get home later, eat later, catch up on some more work. Maybe you want to get things straight before that meeting tomorrow, or it's raining this weekend so I'll pop into the office and sort out a few things, just so that it'll be easier on Monday. You can't sleep properly because your mind is still racing with all the thoughts pounding in your head. You'll eat high carbohydrate food, you'll still be on the computer at midnight, you don't sleep properly, the extra visceral fat around the belly means that you snore and suffer from sleep apnoea. All this is stress, which generates cortisol, which raises blood sugar and fat deposits around the belly. The important thing is the release from this stress so that the body can re-create. If you recognise yourself in any of this then maybe it's time for a rethink:

 

Shouting or swearing a lot.

When the phone rings is it 'I wonder who wants to speak to me?' or 'bloody hell, not again!'

Loud noises make you jump

You drive too fast and shout at all the other drivers.

You eat too quickly. Gulp your food without chewing or even tasting it.

You find yourself with a couple of spare hours and find some work to do instead of relaxing.

You hardly have time to talk to your family and/or loved ones (joke).

You drink 'for relaxation'.

You can't sit still for a minute.

 

I'm sure we can all think of many more. Learn that everything takes time, everything has its own natural rate, everything is for a purpose. We don't get long, let's not waste it. Enjoy the journey, just as much as the arrival.

 

I've been very lucky. No big damage has been done and I can be fixed, but others have not been so lucky. Please excuse all the dribbling but I've been talking to the walls and I don't get a lot of sense out of them. All the best to each and very one of you, it's nice to know you care.

 

(Guy Lombardo: Enjoy Yourself)

 

Further reading:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/the-heavy-cost-of-chronic-stress.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

 

'How I learned to love life and stop worrying' by Whitey Grandad available at all good bookstores (I haven't actually written this yet)

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saintmatt

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Well lads and lasses, I have been totally overwhelmed by all you kind words and I can't tell you how much it means to me when I'm stuck in here. You have all stopped me from climbing up the walls. I have had time to think and if you'll excuse the ramblings of a boring old git I'd like to share some of my thoughts with you.

 

'He who does not find time for recreation must sooner or later make time for illness' is supposedly a Chinese proverb, although which Christmas cracker it comes from I've yet to establish. I thought I was reasonably fit, or at least that I used to be. I played football locally on Sunday mornings and later refereed but I was getting old and thought that business men like me did not need to exercise and were entitled to take things easy and drive around in luxury. The weight increased slowly, especially around the middle, and the trouser sizes crept up until Marks & Spencer no longer stocked my sizes. Then last year I found that I was seeing a lot and feeling dry in the mouth which are classic signs of diabetes. A urine glucose test had me called to the doctor urgently and now diagnosed with type 2 diabetes I started a programme of sensible eating and extra exercise, nothing too onerous but there were years of neglect needing to be reversed. I now think I know how I got there. Chronic stress is a much misunderstood term and doesn't mean that you spend all day tearing your hair out. You set yourself targets, maybe you have high ideals, perhaps you just want to get going and do everything at once. You work later in the evening, get home later, eat later, catch up on some more work. Maybe you want to get things straight before that meeting tomorrow, or it's raining this weekend so I'll pop into the office and sort out a few things, just so that it'll be easier on Monday. You can't sleep properly because your mind is still racing with all the thoughts pounding in your head. You'll eat high carbohydrate food, you'll still be on the computer at midnight, you don't sleep properly, the extra visceral fat around the belly means that you snore and suffer from sleep apnoea. All this is stress, which generates cortisol, which raises blood sugar and fat deposits around the belly. The important thing is the release from this stress so that the body can re-create. If you recognise yourself in any of this then maybe it's time for a rethink:

 

Shouting or swearing a lot.

When the phone rings is it 'I wonder who wants to speak to me?' or 'bloody hell, not again!'

Loud noises make you jump

You drive too fast and shout at all the other drivers.

You eat too quickly. Gulp your food without chewing or even tasting it.

You find yourself with a couple of spare hours and find some work to do instead of relaxing.

You hardly have time to talk to your family and/or loved ones (joke).

You drink 'for relaxation'.

You can't sit still for a minute.

 

I'm sure we can all think of many more. Learn that everything takes time, everything has its own natural rate, everything is for a purpose. We don't get long, let's not waste it. Enjoy the journey, just as much as the arrival.

 

I've been very lucky. No big damage has been done and I can be fixed, but others have not been so lucky. Please excuse all the dribbling but I've been talking to the walls and I don't get a lot of sense out of them. All the best to each and very one of you, it's nice to know you care.

 

(Guy Lombardo: Enjoy Yourself)

 

Further reading:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisol

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/science/the-heavy-cost-of-chronic-stress.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

 

'How I learned to love life and stop worrying' by Whitey Grandad available at all good bookstores (I haven't actually written this yet)

 

Yes, but do you like the new kit?

 

Jokes, it's true that far too many get consumed by their jobs and let life pass them by. Many require a wake-up call, in whatever form. Work to live, don't live to work.

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