Desi~
 

I am so so so sorry to hear about Bill... I am keeping you both in my prayers and thoughts... Desi... don't forget to care for yourself... I know that sounds hard because i imagine you are on full alert just make sure you dont send your self into a flare...

Hugs and pain free days ahead Desi! :hug::hug:

Praying you and your husband are better soon,my heart goes out to
you both. Hugs Sue

sorry Sue.. LOL
 

:holysheep::thud:I can't believe my typing as of late, Sue!! seet Sue.. LOL I meant SWEET Sue!!:sorry:I think my mind is lost.. on E bay probably! LOL:Bang-Head: ok< back to banging head on keyboards!:Help: LOL Love ya!~Desi

Desi... I can relate to you with the not taking your meds thing... My bf of 2 years dad refuse to go to the doctor... He has had diabetes for 10 years and just went to the doctor he has a 50/50 chance of losing them know..... I cry and cry and cry but it makes me really angry... doesnt he want to see his grand kids... even though he doesnt have any now.. He will in the future and he has 3 kids himself.... It makes me angry... Because i know he couold of taking care of it... its selfish...

I love you hunny you are always so sweet... I miss you very much... You will stay in my thoughts and prayers... with Bill and Tayla...

Love J

Sorry to hear of your Troubles....
 

Desi,
I haven't been in here for several days so am sorry to hear about your husband. I so agree with the book, Women are from Venus, Men are from Mars, I mean really...why are they so stubborn about taking their meds anyway???? Mine use to be like that, but he got himself in a bind & now he takes them correctly & is on top of his side effects even. Hopefully this scare will wake Bill up so he takes his meds in the future. Sounds like he may have more damage to his heart than he use, but I am confused. Did the Agent Orange cause the damage to his heart, or was it there due to family heredity or caused by his Diabetes?? And yes I remember the Agent Orange from the days of Viet Nam. I know others that their children were born with horrible birth defects due to it. And others who have gotten Cancer.

Sending good thoughts & prayers to & for your family. It is good that he is out of ICU. I have had the drug induced treadmill test done. Oooooohhhh I hated the way it made my heart feel. Not fun at all.

DebbyV

Desi,
I hope that you are taking care of yourself. You don't need to get sick your self. I don't mean to insult and of the men ot there, but I've been dealing with a husband for 26 yrs that never listens to his doc, He is disbled also and besides the ruined back from a 45 ft fall 26 Yrs ago he has many other health problems. Heart, panic attacks, I could go on and on. He never takes his meds and when told to rest, he never does. Last week he had a disc-ogram and for 4 days now has been in extremly bad pain, do you think he would take the pain meds? Of course not. He even left the hospital before he was supposed to. I think he is trying to drive me crazy. But when I was in the hospital on new years eve, I was bleeding out from 5 ulcers they found and almost died. 5 pints of blood later and I started feeling better. Now I have to take a new med for the rest of my life. He is on my back everyday,"did you take your meds?" but yet he won't taked is own. I think he likes to make me worry, I think they all like to do that. He makes me mad, so stubborn.
Desi, I hope that your husband gets better soon and everyday I pray for both of you. Have his Doc give a good talk to him. Maybe he can scare him into taking the meds. Always thinking about you.

Love SUE K

Hi Debbie!
Great to hear from you lady! how have ya been!! Ok.. Bill has done this over and over(he almost lost is foot 3 yrs. back and pulled through.) All The Cleveland, butcher veterans hospital, wanted to do is cut it off! I took him outta that place and we came back here in town.. went to the best specialist there is, good looking surgeon too.. LOL He used to be a Marine. Anyway, he said "I will not give up, I will work with this man aggressively!!!! Bill has had 2 heart attacks. (silent one in "06".. one last Sunday). He keeps saying this is a wake up call for me, ya.. ummmmmmmm.. ok Bill. I then was making all diabetic receipiesfor him, found candy wrappers in his car, pants pockets, McDonalds junk food wrappers as well. so, I said.. I am busting my rear, your cheating and eating this crap??!! Oh, Deb, I was so mad!! :mad:
ok as far as the AO (Our government used those huge orange barrels(that's why it's called Agent Orange) To find the enemy , first, they needed to find the enemy in the thick folliage, so they sprayed over there and it killed the foliage alright! "Our men, woman, kids, even the enemy! This is one of the most potent of potent chemicals anyone can ever, ever use! What was the Government thinking??:eek::mad: Anyway, no one on Bills side has diabetis. no one. There is a sheet a mile long what this AO causes. It would blow your mind. I too have seen first hand(Myhusband is commander at the American Legion post) and the children we see?? My gosh! I do have my oldest son who was a slow learner at school. he is not retarded or anythig like this, but was in slow classes all his life. My youngest was high strung.. still is. honor roll student all through school. They could have been both retarded, diabetic, cancer, high blood pressure, sores that come and go, like Bill. Bill's health is so bad. he is only 58 and every single joint of his is in constant pain. he got on 10% disability right away.
Now, you asked what caused the heart damage? it was not taking his insuline!! Also, he can't feel on his foot(well, feet, both of them) also he just gets pressure. his heart doc. told me that 9% of "silent heart attacks are caused by diabetics! wow!! He keeps sayng he as a death wish, seeing his best friends over there that should havce been alive, as one split move and wham they got hit! My husband was point man, was afraid to let any man walk point because of the mines and a lot of them"our guys.. sadly got high, drank" and my husband was on alert at all times. he was a tunnal rat, going into those small underground tunnals, with flsah light in hand to find the enemy.I read all his "Top secret papers from the government", what he did over there and wanted to puke after reading those. he was highly decorated. had two tours, went back for another tour, so 3 yrs. in all over there. what gets me, yes, all wars are horrid, but when these men(They were babies when Uncle Sam took them right out of high school) but, when our men came home, no welcome, spat upon, bhah.. blah.. blah. Predident Nixon signed all his release honorable discharge papers and he deserved every single bronze, purple heart and so many more metals he has. As, I was saying, he deserved every metal Nixon slapped on him. He is highly depressed, used to shine flashlights in me and my children's faces to make sure we were alright.(like he was on "watch duty" or something. He was also a sargent. My marriage almost ended .. I told him to either get help the rest of his life or I am taking the babies(my sons were so small at this time)He took the help and is still getting help. ya see, Debbie, he would NOT talk about Nam for the first 10 yrs. I didn't know he was this way until it gradually all came out. I met him when he had just gotton out. i just thought he was "One of those bad boys'.. you know, "cool" I dated him, maried him too fast.. within a year and the rest is still hard to say, write down, with all I have and.... still go through at times.
I should write a book and have been thiking of it a lot! i would like it titled;"Living with a vietnam vet" It would make your skin crawl! ALL WAR is sad. well, look at me going on and You asked one simple question!! LOL :D..Anyway, he was not allowed to take the stress test on the treadmill bicycle,as he is unbalanced, so they shot this dye all through him, had four doctors, nuses with "the paddles with them".. just in case... Anyway, I went shopping this morning, it's 11 degrees here! It was - 6 this morning. I cleared out all food.. gave to the church pantries, as all churchs everywhere can take any kind of non perishable foods. They need to fill the shelves, as most have been wiped out with Christmas and all. well, sorry to talk your head off. I want to thank you, Deb.. so much for sending us your good thoughts and prayers. this means so much and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, Love and God bless you and yours, Debbie! ~Love, Desi/COLOR]