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  1. 2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    When I had to get stents, I had nothing show up on the regular stress test. Cardiologist still had me go to ER because I said it felt weird.  Did the nuke test on the treadmill and that showed the 90% blockage on the widowmaker and circa. 

    yeah, plain jane stress test is somewhat useless.

  2. 24 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    Did nuke stress test with treadmill.  Profusion great, electrocardiogram iffy.

    Wants to do a cardiac CT angiogram.

    Really wanted it to stop at the stress test.  Furk.

    Relax....While scary...this whole process can be really easy and it means not croaking unexpectedly on your family and friends. I went in at 6:00 AM for the LAD stent and was home within 24 hours, a week later the other two stents and a junction ballon, same thing, arrived in the AM and went home after dinner. I can barley see the scar on my wrist. 

  3. 1 hour ago, kmac30 said:


    Friend is in his 70s and started going to heart Dr regularly when he turned 50. 20+ years and never did a stress test. Called me after a visit and told me his Dr said he was good for another 10 yrs. Next day he had a major heart attack. Survived it, but was pissed. Other Dr told him if he wasn’t doing stress test nothing else really mattered.

    I’m 45 and just got my calcium. Nothing. Going for follow up visit with Dr Monday and I’m going to mention the stress test to see what he says.

    basic stress test is crap, needs to be the Nuke Test w/ treadmill too

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  4. 6 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    My dad went in for a stress test prior to prostate surgery.  Doc came out after additional testing and said "The prostrate surgery is canceled, he needs heart bypass surgery."

    4X bypass.  That's not a surgery I'd recommend lightly to anyone.  Recovery was brutal, including additional, significant pain where they harvested the artery from his leg along with depression that lasted the rest of his life, some 20 years more.

    yup....I was slated to have my right shoulder scoped clean out all the arthritis in the A/C joint and some other bullshit from a life well lived. still need to get that done. had the left one done in 2020 the week before the close the hospitals due to Covid. just lucky. 

  5. On 4/19/2023 at 10:15 PM, CooterBrown said:


    Dude, it’s better. If you have blockage, your heart is working on less blood flow than normal. Opening up that blood flow gets you to normal while minimizing the risk of a heart attack.

    When you get the stents put in, it’s a wild sensation because your heart is beat like crazy getting used to all the blood flow it had been missing. For me it lasted for over a full day. It felt like my heart was gonna burst out of my body and go run down the hallway.

    there is something to this. my BP went down as the pump doesn't have to work so hard. When I did the stress test and had me on the treadmill....they said the heart was that of man 20 years younger and was strong. Must be all that cocaine from you youth. 

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  6. On 4/19/2023 at 5:26 PM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    Sweet Jesus.

    How have the stents limited any of your activity?  Although my GP wanted me to just see what the statins and weight loss did, and didn't recommend seeing a cardiologist, he agreed when I told him I was ruminating and surfing the web and freaking out a bit. 

    I don't kill myself in the gym, but I enjoy a 15 mile bike ride and a 20K steps walk and a 2000 yard swim without really thinking about it.  If you told me I could continue those activities even with stents/bypass, I probably wouldn't be so anxious. 

     

     

    I'm not a Doctor...that being said I walk 3miles a day and hit the dumbbells and kettle bells. Cardiologist has ok'ed this, he said I can do a 5k if I want. I'm not a runner. I did my one marathon back in 2003. I'm about the turn 52 so I'm just working out the stay alive. I can't shovel snow anymore which is a real bummer... no seriously, I like it, I;m weird that way. Your Cardiologist will set the rules.  

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  7. I used to carry one of these in my backpack/laptop bag along with all my other "IT related" do-dads, cables, etc. Carried for years, all over the USA, MEx, Aruba, etc. Then came that fateful trip to Montreal....the Canadians found it, pulled me aside for a conversation in a small room, relived me of the item and suggested I might be be able to enter Canada again if I traveled with one of these again. 

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  8. Cannot encourage peeps to get one enough. I did my first one back in 2014....scored a 70 and my GP said, work on your diet, etc. fast-forward to last year it was something like 700 or a 1000. Went to a Cardiologist and he ordered a Nuke Strees test which showed a healthy heart but Arterial Occlusion. went to the CATH Lab...LAD was 100% occluded, CRX was 90%, RCA was over 80%. Mind you....I felt great and had no outward signs of heat issues.

     

    Want to know what the survivability rate is for a LAD Cardiac Event if you are not in a Cardiac Care center? 12%

     

    I had three stents put in, in and out the same day, two sessions. Now its as if they were not occluded. crazy shit

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  9. 3 hours ago, Homercles said:

    This shit has had me worried for awhile now.  We have a roaming band of 10-12 kids that are all grades 1-4 that play together, mine included.  There’s a text chain where we communicate, they know not to run into yards of people they don’t know, and my 3rd grader has a watch we can keep in touch with.  At this age they’re not out after dark, but it’s coming.  

    However NextDoor is full of stories on package thieves, homeless people and general concern/anger about anything that isn’t white bread perfect.  Last winter a gang of teens were walking down the street tipping over trash bins and generally being assholes…imagine how NextDoor was then.  So I’m sure a certain group are constantly huddled around the tv sitting on a pile of guns  

    On the other hand it’s cedar park, predominantly Indian and Asian families…so I doubt most are packing heat, but my Cajun neighbor has pistols all over his house and the rest of their street was covered in One Family crap last election…and leading killer of young kids ya know. 

    Nextdoor is a blight, its all people bitching about shit and stirring the pot of fear

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  10. On 9/11/2019 at 11:55 AM, Mappable said:

    https://www.austin360.com/news/20190910/exclusive-el-patio-is-coming-back-just-weeks-after-closing

    Charles Attal knew within a minute of hearing the news from his cousin that something had to be done.

    Kristyn Ciani, granddaughter of El Patio founders Paul and MaryAnn Joseph and daughter of longtime El Patio employee Roseann Joseph-Ciani, had alerted Attal that her uncle David had decided to close the restaurant his parents opened in 1954.

    “We have to save it,” Attal, a co-founder of C3 Presents, told his cousin.

    Ciani had supported her uncle in his decision to close the restaurant after four decades and never imagined she would have the opportunity to continue the family legacy. The call from Attal, who is also a partner in Stubb’s BBQ, changed all that.

    And a visit to the restaurant and a glimpse of the seemingly endless lines of people saying farewell to the Tex-Mex institution, which closed Aug. 9, reaffirmed their decision.

    The next generation of family formed a group that included Ciani, Attal,his sister Jennifer Attal-Allen, her son Sled Allen and Sway and La Condesa founder Jesse Herman to reopen the business, which has been in the family for 65 years.

    “It’s literally in my blood,” Kristyn Ciani said. “I never thought I would have been able to be a part of something so cool like this.”

    El Patio will reopen at 2938 Guadalupe St. by the end of September, the family said.

    “Our roots run deep in Austin, back to the late 1800s,” said Jennifer Attal-Allen, whose grandmother was a half-sister of El Patio co-founder Paul Joseph. “Family is everything to us. So to now, along with my brother, son, and cousin, be able to continue this tradition Uncle Paul and Aunt MaryAnn started, means more than I’m able to put into words. It’s especially a very proud moment for me personally, that the next generation who is stepping up includes my son, Sled.”

    When longtime guests return to visit El Patio, they will see familiar faces and familiar dishes. The staff from both front and back of house is returning to the restaurant, some of whom have worked at El Patio for more than 35 years. The menu will remain the same, though the bar will expand with additional drink offerings. The new owners say they have no intention of messing with the heart and formula of what made their family restaurant such a treasured institution.

    “Jennifer and I grew up in that restaurant, so it’s an honor to be a part of something that now my own kids can grow up in,” Charles Attal said. “We will continue to bestow the same respect upon it that David and the rest of our cousins have since day one.”

    El Patio will be open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday.

    That family is the Austin Lebanese mafia right there. 

  11. 1 hour ago, texasdago said:

    Taking my wife to Miami Beach for her birthday... booked a hotel at around 18th and Collins which is near plenty of stuff but separated from the most chaotic areas (once stayed at The Breakwater on Ocean b/w 9th and 10th.  #badideajeans) and for one I'm thinking on just passing on a rental car and walking everywhere.  Anyone done that?  I like the idea of just focusing on local trolleys, Uber, walking, bikes, etc. than worrying about a car rental and the absurd prices.

    Never rent a car in Miami. walk and Uber, which are cheap compared to other cities. 

  12. On 3/7/2023 at 12:23 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    I haven’t had it and I don’t plan on trying it. Is it a tasting or a cocktail thing? Cocktails would be better, but either way at you should be fine. 
     

    I recently attended a nice NAPE Reception where they had a Horse Solider Bourbon (piss) tasting. Despite serving a terrible product people went wild for it because it’s novel and fancy.  Many of your guests don’t know or don’t care what good bourbon tastes like. They just want something free. 

    it's a tasting event, we are sending people tasting kit for a virtual event

  13. No Country for Old Men reads like a screen play

    The Road: made me cry and I was probably in my peak Single Guy Partying in NYC mode, crazy. McCarthy can do that to you..Blood Meridian had sections like that, that you just had to slog thru. 

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