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Three weeks ago, I had severe angina for the first time since my second bypass surgery 3 1/2 years ago. An emergency angiogram showed that I had clotted off two or the three grafts done in 2010. Nothing could be done with stents or surgery. The Lake Superior trip was canceled 2 days before we were to leave. All boating activity stopped. For the last two weeks I have been on 3 new medications and gradually increasing my exercise, so I am now up to walking 1.25 miles each PM, and remain free of pain.

Today we met with my cardiologist again, and we have clearance to resume our plans to take the C Dory to Powell, and then take the RV on up the the PNW at the end of July. I can launch and use the boat in the mean time around home. Although my cardiologist cannot guarantee another decade of life, I now feel that reaching 80 in a couple of years may be obtainable. The good news is that there is no further heart muscle damage from my episode 3 weeks ago.
 
Bob, That is great news. You are obviously doing things right. Keep it up, and hope to get to see you at the Friday Harbor CBGT, 2114 and more.

Besides the exercise, any dietary changes that are helping?

Glad for no further damage, for sure.

Harvey
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Thanks for the kind words!

I responded to Harvey in detail about the diet. I have known that I had heredity coronary disease since 1955, when my father had his first coronary. Since then I have followed a rather strict diet. Cholesterol and triglycerides have been normal. I very rarely have eaten red meat for many years. Lots of fish, and poultry. High vegetable, with cholesterol lowing grains etc.

I'll be in Sequim for most of August, and maybe a few days in Sept. I hope to see some of the C Brats in the area then. We will head for Powell in early September. We will have oxygen aboard in case--and also may take a portable oxygen concentrator, depending on my P O2, etc.
 
Bob good to hear things are on the up and up. and you will get to take your trip this summer/fall, and hope the improvements continue.
 
I really hate the part of getting of a certain age when you start measuring your probable life time in single digits. But, "that's life." I measure mine 6 months at a time between blood tests to tell me if my cancer has recurred. But, thanks to helpful and loving family and a wife of 50 years, I'm gonna keep on keepin on 'till whatever end the Lord has in store for me. Hope to see you at the Powell gathering in Sept. And I hope you will be feeling good.

You carry a huge amount of intellectual property about C's that would be very hard to replace.

You will be included in our evening prayers this week.
 
potter water":1o2x3ka8 said:
I really hate the part of getting of a certain age when you start measuring your probable life time in single digits. But, "that's life." I measure mine 6 months at a time between blood tests to tell me if my cancer has recurred. But, thanks to helpful and loving family and a wife of 50 years, I'm gonna keep on keepin on 'till whatever end the Lord has in store for me.
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How true that is, and how much we take life for granted as we are younger. Marie has had the sadness of loosing 3/4 of her closest friends in the last two years--all in their late 60's. We also have other friends who are developing Alzheimer's in their early 70's, so there are other fates which can befall all of us. Neither had any dementia in their family and their parents lived a long full life.

We have lost members of the C Dory community in the last few years at fairly young ages.

It brings up--"Do it while you can."
 
Thataway: I'm happy to hear your good news :thup

potter water... I like your attitude about enjoying your "six months" as they come.

Glad you both have close family to provide love and support.

I hope to see you all at Powell :)
 
On to Powell! Patty is a cancer survivor, I have a stent (only one right now, but who knows?). We have been married 46 years (Patty was obviously only 12 when we got married) and still going strong. The future will be what it will be, and we need to enjoy each day, each week, each month, each cruise to the max! For now I am pretty relaxed and contented with how our lives are going in retirement, and am not going to let worries about what might be interfere with that!
 
I have kind of a love/hate relationship with this kind of a thread.On my daily walk I run into the same people often. We have long ago exchanged first names and stop and talk about family, the Mariners or Seahawks and, inevitably, our aches and pains. Recently I shared that the two previous owners of our 16 footer were C-Brats who, well, died. One day, probably in the single digit future, I will carry on that legacy. In the meantime, I have pretty much settled into a very comfortable groove, happy in my own skin, secure in my own family and friends, and content in the realization that, well, no matter what, we're all in the same boat.
 
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