Good job Don! Keep up the healing and get those 970 guitars wailin’.

jingleman

Been in session three days. GREAT NEWS!

R.

Don, way back in the early 1970s, I helped set up the cardiac rehab program at the John's Hopkins Hospital and also the Pulmonary Rehab program. Both are pretty much the same, usually 12 to 16 weeks, two to three days a week, depending on your insurance company. Medicare will cover part of it, but not all.

The programs are all pretty similar, treadmill, exercycle, light weight lifting, arm cycling machine, and you will be on a cardiac monitor every minute of the hour you are exercising. Essentially, the program doesn't make your heart any stronger - that's not remotely possible. What it does is make you stronger, gives you more stamina, so when you do have to stress your mind and body, your heart doesn't have to work as hard to compensate for the increased metabolic demand. It is very, very effective for about 75 percent of those that go through the program. The other 25 percent usually go back to lazing around and doing nothing but eating fattening foods and getting no exercise whatsoever.

I have a lot of exercise equipment here at home, but not I'm too busted up to use the treadmill and I'm only good for about 10 minutes on the exercycle stationary bicycle. I still do the light weights, just 5 pounds, though, about 100 curling reps with each arm. My arms look great, but the rest of me looks like $hit! Hopefully, when the boat goes back in the water, the constant exercise from sailing will improve some of the other body parts, though some will likely never function like they did in the past.

Good luck, old friend,

Gary

This is my 3rd time through rehab, so I'm familiar with it. I also have exercise gear at home, but haven't been using it. Thanks!

Don, great to hear you're recovering quick. Praise our Almighty Father!

Don, without a doubt that is terrible work on the part of the medical staff ... So glad nothing went wrong while that unit wasn't working ...
A friend of mine who got a pacemaker a few months ago had quite the opposite situation ... he was given a monitor that he is supposed to activate on a certain date six months after the procedure and place it near his heart. The device will then send data to his cardiologist for them to review. One day he decided to make sure the unit worked and he turned it on ... in about a minute and a half he got a call from the doctor's office asking what was going on ... he told them he just wanted to test the unit, and they 'politely' asked him to stop messing with it and just follow directions ...

Don you are being challenger big time and you are wining. There are many who do not make it because of medical errors or their poor spirit. I still have no doubt that you will come through all this stuff; there are better days are coming for you my friend.

A thought: We all look at the physical part of suffering and healing; I am going to be very interested knowing what your challenges have taught you – What will Mr. Don’s new outlook on life be. What will you embrace and what will you throw out?

Fantastic health Don, John C.

My thoughts are a bit off kilter when it comes to medicine. I spent 15 years of my younger life working in medicine and I can assure you that 90 percent, if not higher, of the the physicians are inept at best. One of the reasons I am still alive is because of my medical background. I checked myself out of the hospital on three occasions over the past decade, which probably saved my life.

Don, spend more time fishing, playing golf - you will probably live a lot longer.

All the best,

Gary