What have done towards your prep?

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(14 September 2017, 08:12)Straight Shooter Wrote: Married for 44 years this year MB ....the first 5 years i spent reeling her in ! .....so there is no hope for me then ? ........some bloody friend you turned out to be MB....i was expecting a well formulated tactical plan from you.....you have obviously given up on me or you have resigned yourself to the fact that i hit gold all them years ago.....she is beautiful inside and out .....(even when nobody is watching or taking the least bit of notice ) .

44 years??

Any woman that could put up with the likes of one of us for 44 years is a registered and validated saint.

I remember back when I had my heart attack. 2 weeks after leaving hospital and still in rehab we went camping at a reenactment. Heavy gear, canvas tents, fire irons, cast iron cookware. I was under orders to do nothing around that heavy gear.

The wife caught me hammering down tent pins with the small sledge hammer and I thought for sure she and the other women in the camp were going to finish what the heart attack began. They watched me like a bunch of chicken hawks for the remainder of the weekend.

What you have had done and what you are doing now is the ultimate in survival topics, prep and conditioning. You are in the process of living through something that would have killed the average person just 50 years ago. You have the chance to live through it and add another decade or two to your existence.

That is surviving, and not some fantasy scenerio of roaming the woods like Robin Hood eating roots and berries gathered from the hedgerow.

They opened up your chest, stopped your heart, rewired and re-plumbed your heart, then started it back up again, sewed you back together and you are now mending.

SURVIVAL DOES NOT GET ANY MORE SERIOUS OR REAL THAN THAT!

When I had my work done I was a heavy smoker. I was in the intensive care unit for some time and in cardiac care unit for even longer and there was no smoking during that time. The doctors warned me that if I continued smoking my days would be a very short number, so I quit. I had already done two weeks without a cigarette so I just decided to not fire one up when I left hospital.

Last cigarette I had was the day of the heart attack. I did not sneak one in or take another drag of someone else's already lit smoke. The wife could not believe that after 30 years of smoking I could quit cold turkey.

Lots of hilarious things that have happened because I quit but that would be a more humorous thread with little value to survival.

But quiting smoking is a survival topic! I stopped the cigarettes, lost a few pounds, started getting some exercise and took my medications without fail and I am still around and having part time fun 14 years latter. Most important thing was that I got an additional 5 years with my wife, and I enjoyed each day.

My cardiac specialist says I am one of his "wonder boys". One of the few that took his advice, did what was prescribed and reaped the benefits. He told me he has been practicing for more then 30 years and has had only a few to do this and survive for it.

Most of his patients do not follow recommendations. He told me the average heart victim has a second attack within 3 years of the first and dies within 5 years of the first attack, all because they will not follow recommendations.

Do your rehab, take your meds, follow the recommendations, quit trying to build a whole farm from scratch overnight, have a few more years with that good woman.