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Good evening everyone.
Sorry about this short notice, but I am being admitted to St John's Subiaco first thing Saturday morning.
The ticker isn't doing what it is supposed to be doing.
So if all the God's of all beliefs are lined up I shall return in approximately 10-15 days.
farmerge
 
farmerge said:
Good evening everyone.
Sorry about this short notice, but I am being admitted to St John's Subiaco first thing Saturday morning.
The ticker isn't doing what it is supposed to be doing.
So if all the God's of all beliefs are lined up I shall return in approximately 10-15 days.
farmerge
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Best wishes for a good recovery.
 
I'mmmmm back.
After my successful exit yesterday as an emergency hospital heart patient, and after several tests and X-rays etc, it is now a case of the cough and whatever I have been suffering with has been determined as influenza.
I was set up nicely in a private room in ICU all wired up with the heart monitor beeping away.
Then late today was told pack your bags and home you go.
The surgery is postponed for another week until then "flu is cleared from your system.
Came away with some potent anti-biotics that will hopefully do the job, and the thrice postponed surgery can then go ahead.
 
Got home this morning about 10am from getting a couple of things sorted prior to next Monday.
Smoke was starting to fill the valley at the back of us, and by Noon couldn't see the tree line about half a k away.
On the arvo news today Perth's smoke haze deemed to be the worst in the world health wise.
For me being super cautious, stayed ensconced inside all day.
 
farmerge said:
Unfortunately, the merry-go-round of medical appointments will continue tomorrow. X-ray of the lungs again and an Echo scan of the heart has to be organised.
Today, wasn't the best of days with a prolonged effort on the bed, and the weather wasn't that favourable as well.
Hit 41c this afternoon.
Looking positively forward, thinking it can't get any worse than the past 3 weeks.
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get better soon m8

Kind regards
rcw1
 
farmerge said:
It;s been awhile coming after 3 cancellations, but I'm about to leave to go to St Johns Subiaco.
I hope everyone has a good investment period over the next couple of weeks.
Cya's all when I return completely revitalised.
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Hope your ticker op went ok and you arrive back revitalisd and in robofarmer mode.
It's quiet around here without your banter, and, or ear bashing!

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So I hadn't seen this thread with farmerge. Heart surgery's no walk in the park - hadn't realised it was at that level. Much🤞
Anyone - do what I mostly don't do: watch your blood pressure, try to control blood glucose, keep your vessels dilated with higher nitric oxide strategies (two of which are exercise and nitrate intake through leafy greens). And what I do do: attention to diet with a willingness to make changes, ditch alcohol, boost nitratate (leafy greens + a supplement?), take nattokinase and/or vit K2 (supposed to shunt calcium away from blood vessels and into bone).
 
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"Normal recovery from heart surgery takes four to six weeks, but it can take up to three months for a full recovery. During this time, your arm and leg muscles will start to strengthen and you can slowly return to your usual activities.

While your breastbone is healing, you shouldn’t lift, push or pull anything heavy. Your nurse will show you the safest ways to lift and move your body, including rolling and sitting up in bed.

As well as the physical effects of a heart bypass on your body, it is normal to experience emotional and thinking difficulties for the first few weeks or months after surgery.

Many people say they have trouble concentrating and remembering things. You may find you have a poor appetite and changes in taste. It is also common to have strange dreams and changed sleeping habits during the recovery period.

Many people feel angry, upset, down or hopeless after heart surgery, and this is so common that it has a name, the cardiac blues. Usually, the cardiac blues gets better with time over the first two months."
 
Came across this story about the startling effects of strength training for 90 year olds:cautious:
Sounds crazy ? It remains as one of the most influential experiments every conducted with older people

The ninetysomethings who revolutionized how we think about strength training​

One simple exercise proved older adults can build and retain muscle – and caused a paradigm shift in science

Michael Joseph Gross
Wed 12 Mar 2025 03.00 AEDT


In 1988, 712 people lived at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged, a Boston nursing home affectionately named “Hebrew rehab” by its residents and staff. The residents’ average age was 88, and three-quarters of them were women. Every resident had multiple medical conditions. Almost half required help to engage in the essential activities of daily life: getting out of bed, going to the bathroom, bathing, walking, eating. But they were survivors. Some had survived the Holocaust. Others fled the Cossacks. They all lived through the Great Depression.

... Beginning in the late 1980s, Fiatarone ran a series of studies in which she asked residents to commit to a regimen of high-intensity strength training. To many of her colleagues, the research seemed risky. Conventional wisdom in medicine at that time said the oldest people were not capable of lifting heavy weights – it might cause cardiac events. In all of western medical literature, Fiatarone found no evidence that any doctor had ever previously tried to teach frail 90-year-olds to do this kind of training.

But she pressed forward with the research, and the Hebrew rehab lifters produced unprecedented proof that high-intensity progressive resistance training can strengthen and build muscle even for the oldest people, with life-changing effects. Hebrew rehab residents who lifted weights gained power to function more independently, and to live with more autonomy and dignity, into their last years.

The ninetysomethings who revolutionized how we think about strength training

One simple exercise proved older adults can build and retain muscle – and caused a paradigm shift in science
www.theguardian.com
 
Good afternoon/evening everyone.
I was released from Hospital this afternoon WA time.
Had 2 operations, new heart valve and a pace maker inserted last Friday.
Due to a couple of minor complications it necessitated a few extra days cooped up in there.
Very glad to be home drinking decent rainwater and breathing fresh air and being able to get outside of the building.
The down side is
No bending
Nothing over 2kg in weight to be picked up
Can't life my arms higher than shoulder
height, no side or forward arm movements past a certain point
Both arms have to be moved in the same direction at the same time, not one at a time.
The wiring into the heart has to be treated with kid gloves for about 6 weeks.
So having said all of that life is looking great and i am on the recovery track now.
I will not be participating on ASF until sometime April when I am booked into see both surgeons as how thing will be treated going forward.
There is a lot of exercises needed to be undertaken regularly and at the moment it takes all that I have before I need to hit the sack for a rest.
Good luck to all in investing and as the Man said "I will be back'
Farmerge
 
finicky said:
farmerge is/was in the house. Last spotted viewing MHK thread 23m ago
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Ahhhh @finicky 'tis not the farmerge of ASF but his beloved son from up North.
Staying here with Mum and Dad for a couple more days just helping out and now and then poking my nose into his affairs to keep him updated somewhat until he has the get up and go.
Which is not that far off
Big day for them on Tuesday next week when he sees the Cardiologist re his pacemaker.
Watch out for his return..............................!!!!!
 
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farmerge said:
Ahhhh @finicky 'tis not the farmerge of ASF but his beloved son from up North.
Staying here with Mum and Dad for a couple more days just helping out and now and then poking my nose into his affairs to keep him updated somewhat until he has the get up and go.
Which is not that far off
Big day for them on Tuesday next week when he sees the Cardiologist re his pacemaker.
Watch out for his return..............................!!!!!
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Just letting all know that, I, farmers son, am heading home tonight.
Farmer thinks he will be back on posting later in the week.
As a rider he is doing all he can to regain physical and mental fitness.
For what he has been through in the past few weeks, I am very proud of the progress that I have seen in my two visits here at home.
All the best to everyone from both of us.
 


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