Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Tim Heart Problems ... Six Year Repeat

For those who don't know what is going on ... and there isn't much to tell right now.

About this time 3 years ago, Tim was actually pretty healthy, since he wasn't working - there wasn't much variety in our diet and yet we ate a lot of rice and beans and whatever we were given.  We had to be careful with our food.  Tim was doing good at staying away from Mt. Dew and Dr. Pepper and junk food, and he wasn't bringing them home.

He started working at McDonald's again.  We were out of retirement money, and none of his job leads had done much more than nibble.  For a while, he stayed pretty good at eating right - even though he was slipping away from his diet.

Then he went to Hamburger University October 2015.  You have to sign a contract to go since they pay for it, but now things were more stressful at work.  At the same time he was trying to do reffing seasons, with limited success.  And he had that contract.   He started wandering off his diet more often, and even though we got Fitbit's and Garmins to try to improve my health, and he began doing limited running and miles of walking, he was also eating a lot of sugars, junk foods, and sodas.  And gained a lot of weight, especially in his stomach.  He's still under contract, but is still paid hourly.  

Their were a lot of things going on that were stressful.

And then FB started putting up memories of Tim's heart attack - exactly 6 years ago.   It was weird to see them again.  We were thankful things were better now.

Monday morning (the 5th), he woke with chest pains, and finally woke me and my Aunt drove him down to the hospital.  They admitted him, but don't think he had a heart attack.  And he's had a bunch of tests.   But they haven't sent him home.  Tomorrow morning at some time, they'll run him through a heart cath ... he doesn't now how extensive, it will depend on what they find.  Afterwards he has to be really still for hours.

Prayers are appreciated.  

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