CWLongshot is improving .

[Jeff H]

Okay, CW, if you warrant a thread dedicated to your recovery, at the very least you could post a video of the surgery as I'd originally requested. I'm willing to bet that they video recorded your resurrection, and you need to tell the Doc that you are famous for posting videos about pretty much anything that you do or buy. I have it on good authority, that lurking in the archives here at TA&SBC is a CW video titled, "Boxers or Briefs, tell me what you think". So, a vid of your ticker floppin' around on the operating table is way overdue.

Just sayin'....

I might check out the surgery video, but I vote to keep that "boxers or briefs" in deep archive.

Seein' CW's ticker flop around is one thing...

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Okay, CW, if you warrant a thread dedicated to your recovery, at the very least you could post a video of the surgery as I'd originally requested. I'm willing to bet that they video recorded your resurrection, and you need to tell the Doc that you are famous for posting videos about pretty much anything that you do or buy. I have it on good authority, that lurking in the archives here at TA&SBC is a CW video titled, "Boxers or Briefs, tell me what you think". So, a vid of your ticker floppin' around on the operating table is way overdue.

Just sayin'....

 

[popper]

You need water and salt to stay hydrated.

Yup, and calcium and potassium for the muscle motivation. The chemical reactions to cause muscle motion is, well, neat.
I don't salt my food, she does. Fast food is usually too salty. But the flavor of salt is good!
Son got the doc to fix the bleeding pic line yesterday, darn they gotta get that stuff fixed.

 

[fiver]

last time i watched a surgery i was eating a liverwurst sandwich with a side of cottage cheese.

 

[Tomme boy]

My personal opinion is that what is killing us, giving our kids Autism, making our little girls start menstruating at 8 and 9 years old and just causing a lot of people to have problems our grandparents never heard of is the preservatives, modifiers, colorings, binders and plain old "stuff" that gets put in our food. It's not the salt, it's the salt combined with the other stuff, or it's the over processed imitation "food" that has no food value other than filling your belly. I love Kraft mac and cheese, but that powder that gives it the cheesy taste ain't cheese. I don't even want to know whats in a burrito supreme from Taco Bell! We had an open bag of tortillas in the bread drawer. They got buried and when I found them they'd been there at least a couple months. I left them there for over a year just to see what would happen to them. Nothing happened. They didn't mould, they didn't get dried out, they didn't deteriorate at all. Like a Twinkie- no shelf life! Farm fresh meat will degrade even if vacuum sealed and frozen over time. But processed meat on a cheap frozen pizza doesn't. And we wonder why cancer is a multi-billion dollar industry?

Its the hormones in all the meat, eggs, dairy that is the cause of what you speak.

 

[Bret4207]

The wife and I travel out of the country for church missions work; right now we are in Zambia for a total of three to four years. Non-pasteurized dairy, natural smoked bacon (called "streaky bacon," as we know it in the States), produce from sidewalk merchants, bread from bakeries not the grocery store. Milk goes bad in less than a week in the fridge. Meat stays frozen until the day before. No preservatives.
So I start getting these headaches. Dehydration, I am told. More water. Still headaches. Then I find a bacon source, and start adding salt to boil potatoes and other vegetables. Headaches go away. Zambian citizens tell me its the US no-salt fad. You need water and salt to stay hydrated.
Pass the bacon, please...

Blessings and prayers to you. You are doing work I can't even imagine.

Yeah, they used to give us salt pills, even in school, when it was hot and we were real active. Salt isn't the killer they make it out to be IMO.

 

[Bret4207]

This whole salt, sodium, cholesterol, red meat, eggs, carbs thing is about like casting and shooting cast.

I think I was doing pretty well until I started thinking too hard about it.

Don't think too hard. Just eat what seems right to you and what your body tells you it handles well- in moderation!

 

[Bret4207]

Yup, and calcium and potassium for the muscle motivation. The chemical reactions to cause muscle motion is, well, neat.
I don't salt my food, she does. Fast food is usually too salty. But the flavor of salt is good!
Son got the doc to fix the bleeding pic line yesterday, darn they gotta get that stuff fixed.

None of my business, but haven't these docs kinda dropped the ball several times with him?

 

[Bret4207]

Its the hormones in all the meat, eggs, dairy that is the cause of what you speak.

I'm certain that's adds to it all!

 

[Rick]

I've had several employers that passed out salt tabs. I also don't think salt is the killer they make it out be, but I also think it's different for each individual. Like bad cholesterol, some people's numbers go crazy if they walk past a nice steak, others no real effect. My salt intake is probably pretty high, one of my favorite snacks is Ruffles chips. I am most definitely a carnivore, yet my bad cholesterol is low enough to make a vegetarian jealous. My blood pressure almost always is 128/68, been that way for years. Got enough problems, don't need that one.

 

[Tomme boy]

We used to get handed salt tabs every night after wrestling practice back in high school. I would lose 14-15lbs every night in practice. And gained it right back the next day in water. Since we were losing so much water each night we had to take the salt tabs so we would not cramp up.

 

[Winelover]

GM use to have salt tablet dispensing stations on the plant floors, many years ago. Gone the way of the Dodo.

 

[MW65]

last time i watched a surgery i was eating a liverwurst sandwich with a side of cottage cheese.

Refresher medical training videos are best watched at lunchtime!!

 

[Bret4207]

My girls used to watch "Botched" and "Dr Pimple Popper". An added benefit to dropping satellite TV was not having to walk through a room and see that on the toob!

 

[Jeff H]

Don't think too hard. Just eat what seems right to you and what your body tells you it handles well- in moderation!

Pretty much the mode of operation these days per my eating AND casting.

One thing that's hard to get through the thick male skull is that as you get older, start "working smarter, not harder" (slow down some) you don't need as much food as you once did. I think back to the VOLUME of food I consumed daily as a 124# teen with a 28" waist and could feed my wife and myself for a WEEK now.

If you're not hungry, don't eat. If you're hungry, don't eat junk - that's even worse than simply eating out of habit.

 

[popper]

Yes, Bret, kinda my feeling too. Son still not healed yet from Feb injury and several relapses. Mama is really upset about it. And she has been trying to get an appt with cardio doc about something doc found in abdomen. Burle or I call it brusky.
BIL is getting another fusion tomorrow, Sis-IL is getting knee replacement too. Friend with colon cancer is in ICU with infection. Darn.
edit: Friend passed yesterday 5:30am. BIL came out of surgery OK but lots of pain this morning. Home and trying to get some sleep.

They rebuild you and you're good for another 20 years.

Not really!

 

[Bret4207]

Yes, Bret, kinda my feeling too. Still not healed yet from Feb injury and several relapses. Mama is really upset about it. And she has been trying to get an appt with cardio doc about something doc found in abdomen. Burle or I call it brusky.
BIL is getting another fusion tomorrow, Sis-IL is getting knee replacement too. Friend with colon cancer is in ICU with infection. Darn.

Kind thoughts and prayers!

 

[Hawk]

Yep, Dad always said you break down in your 50s. They rebuild you and you're good for another 20 years.

 

[Bisley]

I thought we were talking about food and medicine, not voodoo...


This whole salt, sodium, cholesterol, red meat, eggs, carbs thing is about like casting and shooting cast.

I think I was doing pretty well until I started thinking too hard about it.

 

[Missionary]

I grew up near a Potowatimi family. They had simple habits. If it does not taste right do not eat it. Never add sugar. Nothing should taste salty. Eat what the land produces. Be thankful for what you have to eat. Never eat more than what you need.
They were squared away people.