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Oklahoma Heart Hospital Is Grossly Incompetent
Let me make this clear: You may well receive very good medical care from Oklahoma Heart Hospital. However, their accounting and billing operation is so pitifully incompetent it borders on criminal negligence in my opinion. Let me explain. We all … Continue reading
Free Care Is Expensive
Hospitals are not a healthy atmosphere. Yesterday was another VA appointment. I didn’t learn what I wanted to know, but I did learn something. Through the stumbling bureaucratic confusion, I managed to get an echo cardiogram. The technician said she … Continue reading
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Tagged heart-mind, medicine, miscellaneous, veterans services
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Released from Ortho
Today I had what turned out to be my last Orthopedics appointment at the VA (we hope). The x-ray showed the patella was all healed up. Apparently they don’t plan to remove the screws and I can understand that. There … Continue reading
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
My heart is healthy, but the wiring around it is faulty, so to speak. The title above is the name for this problem, as I understand it. This thing is capricious. There are aggravating factors, but the thing itself can … Continue reading
Progress Prayer Request
Bottom line: I need a rowing machine because biking is still a very long way off. Rowing is the only way I can engage the aerobic training so important to my general fitness. I’d love to have a kayak or … Continue reading
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Tagged health, medicine, physical fitness, prayer request
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Progress: Energy
I noticed yesterday how my whole leg often retains fluid so that it’s visibly fatter than the other. So I began working on avoiding situations that promoted that kind of swelling. For example, when sitting at my computer I cannot … Continue reading
Stuff Happens
I lost my sweet tooth. Apparently I’ve become sensitive to caffeine. After years of drinking quarts of coffee daily, now it seems to be at least part of the issue with my tachycardia episodes. I also lost 10 pounds within … Continue reading
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Tagged fitness, health, heart-mind, medicine, peace, psychology
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Progress: Stiffness
Today I tested the hinged brace with a longer arc of free movement. The problem is not the brace limiting my movements, but the knee itself remains very tight. While there is no discernible pain from pulling against the restriction, … Continue reading
Progress: Walking
First, thanks to all of you who are praying with me about recovery. I’m pretty warm and bubbly about my progress. Yesterday I began walking a bit more, trying to find a stride that would work with minimal pain. Today … Continue reading
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Progress: DIY
I’ve ditched the cane, now. I hobble around with the brace, walking slowly and making sure the leg swings the full range of motion with each stride so as to gently stretch everything. The brace was killing me, though. It … Continue reading