I agree with Acadian; Rider! I don't do well at all with the chat box; but you just seem to fly on it! I always love seeing you at our meets; because you manage to keep up with my need for all caps on the fly = really amazing!

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Just to let everyone know = I just got out of the hospital. Went into the ER Friday evening and was admitted for another stroke and kidney failure. Turns out the stroke was just a TIA (mini-stroke); and as of an hour ago I am back home and doing well in recovering from it. The doctor is following up on my kidneys and the nerve damage on my left hand; other than that I am back to "Status Quo," lol. Good to be home again.

No! Not another one, mALX!! You gotta stay with us!!


I'm glad though you're back home already. Always nice when you can do that, being in your own familiar surroundings. I do hope you have lots of people around you to take care of you and keep tabs.


All the best!

I'm okay this time, This one is nothing like that last time. I just have to go back to listening more strictly to the doctor's restrictions on what I am NOT supposed to be doing, urk. (IE: Coffee, etc).

Then leave this Coffee Shop immediately! Unless virtual coffee is OK.

QFT

Yikes, mALX! I'm glad you are home and feeling better!

What she said!

Thank you both! I really am feeling better; and thank goodness all the bad stroke type symptoms didn't stick around after the first couple days! That was the biggest relief to me. The rest is all handle-able, lol.

Yikes! I somehow missed noticing all this. Glad to hear you're home and doing better now!

Yikes. TIA are no good. Kidney failure is def no bueno(husband's been waiting for a transplant for six or something years now).

Hope you sort things out and feel better soon!

Thanks, Decrepit!




Thanks Sakiri!





This post has been edited by mALX: Oct 20 2020, 09:58 PM

Oh no mALX! I’m so glad you are ok!

@mALX: GIVE ME ALLLLL YOUR COFFEE!!!!!

Oh noes! I'm so glad things turned out the way they did - it could have been so much worse. Like MONTHS without our insane Squirrel den mother!

Pay closer attention to the doctors! And GIVE ME ALLLL YOUR COFFEE!!!

Thank you both so much! Haute, you have me rolling laughing at your post,

mALX- and I say this with all the love in the world.


CUT THAT OUT!!!!!!

No. Just- no. No TIAs, no kidney issues, no GTAs, no FOBs, none of that medical acronymical just to hide that it's bad stuff. Recover. Do everything you need to do. We will make sure your favorite table is reserved. But the COFFEE MACHINE is OFF-LIMITS!

I promise, I will obey them from now on. I was really good about listening to them for all these years; but sometime around March my son started wafting Keurig coffee around the house; and my nose followed it to the pot. I started off just begging a few sips; but next thing I knew I was back on the horse mug day and night; urgh. So this was a pretty hard to ignore wakeup call.

I'm glad that you're feeling better, mALX.

Another thing to watch over is salt, especially if you have starting kidney failure. Many people oversee this and they salt the food additionally but they forget that the bought food often comes already at least slightly pre-salted (or whatever's the word). So decrease your salt intake as well, it's more dangerous than coffee.

As you already know, because you suffered strokes, it's hard to avoid them (or TIAs) completely. But the important thing is that symptoms go away as fast as possible, like it happened in your latest case.

Stay safe!

Thank you for these tips, Lopov! Yes, I am careful about my sodium intake most of the time. I never add any at the table, but do salt in cooking = and I don't eat processed foods when I can avoid it so I can control the sodium amount I take in better. I normally try to keep my sodium intake at or under 1500 mg a day. (I am not big on processed foods due to all the preservatives, etc).

I would like to be able to say this came out of the blue; but there actually were warning signs before it got to this point (not on the kidneys; but on the TIA).

The kidneys = really don't have a clue where that showed up or why. I didn't even know about it till they told me the next day.

If it is sodium causing that issue, then that should be an easy fix to drop my sodium intake more. (*mALX doubles up on the Cayenne Pepper*) = wait, is Cayenne Pepper okay?






This post has been edited by mALX: Oct 21 2020, 12:00 PM

Salt is harder to eliminate entirely as some stuff just doesn't come out right without it, but reducing salt use at the table is great. I don't add salt when cooking unless the recipe calls for it(because some stuff is just made with salt) but the last cake I made omitting the salt just came out bad.

Husband's kidneys are working at 10% or less capacity(tests won't show lower) so I try to prevent fluid build-up. He needs a perfect match or the problem that caused his failure will start in the new kidney apparently, so this wait is really sucking. Dialysis blows. He's on it 5 days a week for about 4.5 hours a day. He's always exhausted when he comes home. It's miserable. I don't want any of y'all to have to put up with this.

Especially you, Squirrel! No coffee! <3

@mALX
Sounds like coffee is as addictive for you as many junk foods are for me. I have to avoid them like the plague. No exceptions whatsoever. Should I eat even a few Potato Chips, before you know it I'll be downing an entire king-size bag a day. No willpower to stop whatsoever. Once hooked on chips, I'd of course expand my horizons to include other addiction junk foods. I was 'lucky' in being in a dire health situation where all foods tasted repulsive for an extended period of time. More than long enough for food addictions to vanish. It was then that I switched to the significantly healthier diet I've more or less followed ever since.

I've heard nothing bad about Cayenne consumption. Take that for what little it's worth of course.

Here's the result of an online search for Cayenne Pepper health benefits. Again, don't treat it as being gospel.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Oct 21 2020, 12:55 PM