It Finally Happened: Not One, but TWO Heart Attacks

[Gregm]

This is both a frightening and deeply moving experience. I’m glad you’re surrounded by the love of your family, and it’s encouraging to hear how your body is already responding to exercise and healing. May your recovery continue steadily and without setback. Thank you for sharing your journey with us!

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

I wish I had a bigger space so I could have a gantry or hoist to move amplifiers, but the shop is about 80 sq ft---about the size of a walk in closet and there's almost no space to walk in there, much less have anything like a rolling lift. I do have a hydraulic lift table/cart, but I keep it in the studio because there isn't room in the shop to store it. I bought it ten years ago when I worked on a Sherbourne 7 channel amp that weighed about 125lbs. I would roll it from the studio, then use a small ramp to allow it to make the 3" drop from the studio door to the shop floor. Sometimes it's easier to just manhandle the thing and carry it in.

My wife is amazing. She's been supportive and protective during my entire hospital and recovery phase. She would stop me from lifting anything and offer to move whatever I was trying to move, for me. One thing these two times in the hospital have shown me is just how devoted she is. She was an emotional wreck while I was in the hospital, she told me.

This last time in the hospital was close to two weeks, but I made good use of that time to watch a ton of tutorials on DaVinci Resolve, which I has recently bought to replace my Adobe stuff. All day long, when I wasn't being poke, prodded or hauled to a testing lab, I'd watch and study. By the time I was getting close to going home, I was chompin' at the bit to get to my workstation and try out the new stuff I'd learned. And when I got home, the first thing I did was head to the studio. My wife brought me water, food and snacks so I wouldn't have to climb the stairs.

My back is gradually improving. I was able to get out of bed without excruciating pain this morning. Gradually, I do more each day.

Thanks to all for all the kind words and support!

 

[cjfrbw]

Sorry to hear about your health problems. Glad you're back.

Let the pant legs flap in the subwoofer hurricanes again and the seismic odometer go into the red.

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

Sorry to hear about your health problems. Glad you're back.

Let the pant legs flap in the subwoofer hurricanes again and the seismic odometer go into the red.

Thank you. And Yuki-bird says "hi" to your Timneh:

 

[DonH50]

I wish I had a bigger space so I could have a gantry or hoist to move amplifiers, but the shop is about 80 sq ft---about the size of a walk in closet and there's almost no space to walk in there, much less have anything like a rolling lift. I do have a hydraulic lift table/cart, but I keep it in the studio because there isn't room in the shop to store it. I bought it ten years ago when I worked on a Sherbourne 7 channel amp that weighed about 125lbs. I would roll it from the studio, then use a small ramp to allow it to make the 3" drop from the studio door to the shop floor. Sometimes it's easier to just manhandle the thing and carry it in.

Hmmm... Use a regular hoist on a rail bolted to the overhead joists? You've probably already thought of that...

My wife is amazing. She's been supportive and protective during my entire hospital and recovery phase. She would stop me from lifting anything and offer to move whatever I was trying to move, for me. One thing these two times in the hospital have shown me is just how devoted she is. She was an emotional wreck while I was in the hospital, she told me.

This last time in the hospital was close to two weeks, but I made good use of that time to watch a ton of tutorials on DaVinci Resolve, which I has recently bought to replace my Adobe stuff. All day long, when I wasn't being poke, prodded or hauled to a testing lab, I'd watch and study. By the time I was getting close to going home, I was chompin' at the bit to get to my workstation and try out the new stuff I'd learned. And when I got home, the first thing I did was head to the studio. My wife brought me water, food and snacks so I wouldn't have to climb the stairs.

My back is gradually improving. I was able to get out of bed without excruciating pain this morning. Gradually, I do more each day.

Thanks to all for all the kind words and support!

Continuing improvement is great, always takes 10x longer than we'd hope, natch! And supportive wives are a blessing for sure. Caregiving is hard, much harder than most realize.

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

Hmmm... Use a regular hoist on a rail bolted to the overhead joists? You've probably already thought of that...


Continuing improvement is great, always takes 10x longer than we'd hope, natch! And supportive wives are a blessing for sure. Caregiving is hard, much harder than most realize.

Yup, the overhead hoist is out. I have storage boxes hanging from the ceiling, too.

Loss of muscle happens so fast, but takes so long to rebuild!

 

[Kingrex]

I have had back issues. I go to a place called Advanced Spinal Pain Management. Dr Williams. He injected Mavix and Ozone directly into my disc. Turned my life around. Not cheap. Ran about #22,000 US $. But it works. And unlike 2 of my friends who went under the knife, I recovered. One was paralyzed. The other is 2 years out and is still very uncomfortable. I am working 6 hours a day and feeling good.
I do a light workout every day. i do want to get a bowflex or something to load weight. Only so much can be done with a TRX and hand weights.

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

What's always worked for me was core muscle exercise. However, I stopped going to the YMCA in 2020, and only used a situp bench at home. Then I developed inguinal hernias and had to stop doing situps. Then my back problems returned in about 3 months, coincident with the heart attacks.
I can swear by the Tuff Stuff Six Pack machine. I used one at cardiac rehab and my back started to improve within 2 weeks. I'm using it since last week and already I can get out of a chair unassisted finally.

 

[Kingrex]

If your back is so aggravated you hardly get out of a chair, you need more than situps. Don't get cortisone or PRP. There are much better injectables now. I think its called Extracellular matrix. I know of about 3 brands. Matrix is one of those brands. They are high powered anti inflammitants. But they do not act like a NSAID. They are good for your body and promote healing. When you get them with Ozone, shot into the disc, they soften the disc to some degree and you have to go to spinal decompression for about 3 months. You start out 3 times and week and work down. A minimum of 20 visits. You have to take a good 3 months off from heavy activity. Walking is encouraged. 4 to 6 months is when it really starts to take affect. It took me from being a curled up ball on the sofa asking my wife to get my gun to almost fully functional. I can't play racket sports. But I can walk, light run, bike and work just fine.

I keep hearing these idiots at the chiropractic talking about their surgery appointments. What a stupid thing. Going into a doctor to have then chop away the tough outer anulus of your disc that is about 2 to 3 MM thick so that you end up with for the most part, a bald spot in a tire. Only for some temporary relief, until that bald sport burst, then you have to have a fusion. That surgery should be illegal. Its asinine they teach it in med school and send people out to damage people in the field. Problem is, it makes hospitals $$$$$$$. A shot that is done in a clinic and you walk out after 3 hours. It does not drive revenue. The cost of the shot is each vile of matrix is about $5000. It took 3 vile do my spine. The last shot I got lasted 10 years. That was when I initially burst my spine moving a large stone. I damaged it again last year being stupid.

 

[Mark (Basspig) Weiss]

I've heard so many customers pros and cons about this surgery and that, so I tend to take it all with a note to try to avoid it if possible.
I'm to go in for inguinal hernia surgery soon, and there's some that say not to get the marlex screen put in and others that say it worked great for them.
For me, the exercises work, every time. My back is already improving noticeably since I started using the machine. It's amazing how much abdominal muscle is active during the pectoral crossover exercise. Same with the triceps pulldown.
Plus, I don't think Medicare will cover injections that expensive. I'd rather avoid interventions like that, because down the road, there can be problems. A natural approach works for me. But thanks for sharing your story and suggestions. I will keep them in mind should things not work out with the muscle conditioning.