01/09/05, 11:48 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Fl Zones 11
Posts: 8,120
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I strongly agree that you need a good diabetic diet teacher, and need to become more aggressive with your heart disease.
If you are too short of breath to exercise, try signing loudly for at least 10 minutes twice a day. It will exercise your diaphragm, one of the larger musccles in your body, and increase respiratory efficiency just like exercise.
FYI, a note in one of my Hospice patients charts by her cardiologist from 3 months BEFORE hospice referall, was "Pt condition incompatible with human life". She was alert and oriented and thoroughly enjoyed her life, even tho she was extremely frail and lived another 6 months.
My hope for before I die is to buy an Aspen motorcycle camper and tour the US and Canada via compact car. I saw one at a campground and years later did a Onternet search- no longer have the link but the camper weighs 375 lbs and come in 3 model sizes. The subcompact model is called Aspen, costs about $2500 I believe.
One of the things you can do to improve your sugar metabolism is to consume large amounts of cinnamon- the equivalent of 1-3 teaspoons a day. Also, (if you run out Lasix) Cornsilk is one of the most potent natural diuretics there is. I have dried cornsilk in my emergency stash.
There have been studies that showed that people in too poor a shape for the transpalnt criteria, who have been "aggressively managed" with cardiac meds to get them to a point where they were transpalnt eligible, have improved so much they were no longer transplant eleigible...
Anyway good luck.
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