He Wants Me In A Better Mood, He Says...
peter4jc
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Well, this ain't how you do it young man!
A nicer grouping of cigars, you'll never see! And a coaster w/ a photo taken by none other than our beloved @Usaf06.
So here's the deal...
When I got back from the trip to San Antonio to hang w/ Steve and Nick, I was just bushed and figured the 100+ degree days took it out of me. But I stayed tired. The last two times I mowed my lawn I had to stop halfway through and rest - last year I was doing mine and my next-door neighbor's and felt great. So I don't know if I'm just getting old, but I think it's more than that because I don't think you get old that quickly. It could be the smoking, or being way more unfit that I thought, or a combination of the three. And to top it off, when I do something physical like a bike ride or mow the lawn, I get this burning sensation in my upper lungs/windpipe.
So I should probably go see my doctor. Before I do that, I've been cutting back on cigars; a normal day was averaging three sticks, sometimes only two, sometimes four. I'm going to go down to just one, and if that doesn't help, I'll try going to just one or two over the weekend. I've read that the burning lung thing can be from an out-of-shape person doing too much too fast, so like Stubble told me, I should start walking/riding at a very light level and very slowly build up.
That means according to my latest calculations, I have 19 years worth of inventory. So don't nobody send me any more stinkin' cigars, dadgummit! I mean it. The next person to bomb me is going to get 3X as many in return; unless you're a douche bag and I don't want to send you sticks; in that case, I'm just going to give your bomb to CFW.
A nicer grouping of cigars, you'll never see! And a coaster w/ a photo taken by none other than our beloved @Usaf06.
So here's the deal...
When I got back from the trip to San Antonio to hang w/ Steve and Nick, I was just bushed and figured the 100+ degree days took it out of me. But I stayed tired. The last two times I mowed my lawn I had to stop halfway through and rest - last year I was doing mine and my next-door neighbor's and felt great. So I don't know if I'm just getting old, but I think it's more than that because I don't think you get old that quickly. It could be the smoking, or being way more unfit that I thought, or a combination of the three. And to top it off, when I do something physical like a bike ride or mow the lawn, I get this burning sensation in my upper lungs/windpipe.
So I should probably go see my doctor. Before I do that, I've been cutting back on cigars; a normal day was averaging three sticks, sometimes only two, sometimes four. I'm going to go down to just one, and if that doesn't help, I'll try going to just one or two over the weekend. I've read that the burning lung thing can be from an out-of-shape person doing too much too fast, so like Stubble told me, I should start walking/riding at a very light level and very slowly build up.
That means according to my latest calculations, I have 19 years worth of inventory. So don't nobody send me any more stinkin' cigars, dadgummit! I mean it. The next person to bomb me is going to get 3X as many in return; unless you're a douche bag and I don't want to send you sticks; in that case, I'm just going to give your bomb to CFW.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis
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That said I’m very sorry to hear about how you’ve been feeling and what’s going on. I sincerely hope that your changes and new routine really make an impact and help, be well and feel better my friend.
Don't give me that look, mister! Call the doc!
My father told me a long time ago, when you encounter a bully to hit first and hit hard! Looks like you had the same lesson.
Anyway, hope you feel better, but if you don't, get it checked out.
As for bombing the next one of us that bombs you X3, I call. Let's organize a Peter Bomb pass.
As for the bombs, I have three words; Cigars For Warriors.
Besides he will probably tell you to get a colonoscopy since your over 50....And that will cause much joy on here.
The second time it was esophageal cancer. Go see your doctor. NEED I SAY MORE??
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Life is too short to smoke bad cigars!!!
Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues, Oh when the Blues go marching in!
So this morning my PCP called with the results from the lab - it all looks fine, but my cholesterol is high; the ratio of good to bad is OK, but the bad cholesterol is too high. He suggested I get on a statin over a year ago, and I balked, and now he's getting a bit more insistent. It sounded like he wanted to send a script to a pharmacy and have me pick it up right away, but I have a follow-up w/ him in a couple weeks so we're going to duke it out some more then. The cardiologist appt is two days before I see him again, so I think they're going to double team me.
The whole statin thing has got my undies in a bundle. For years, I've had a deep-seated skepticism of the average doctor in the sense that the pharmaceutical industry has their fangs sunk pretty deep in them; they find a drug that will do X, so they set up some monkied medical trials, convince everybody that Y will happen if we don't control X at some lower levels, and the average doc buys into it (whether or not there are the really swanky kickbacks, I don't know). All I know is that when you follow the money, in any area, there's usually some hocus-pocus and corruption.
And it's forcing me to really look at whether my skepticism is grounded in anything that remotely resembles the truth, or if I'm just being bullheaded (good chance, right?) I've always contended that prescription meds, while doing what they're supposed to, generally have some drawbacks too. I've read some rotten side effects of statins on the internet, but who's to say what you can or can't believe out there. I've seen how many old people live on a bunch of different meds, one for this and one for that etc, and I don't want to turn into one of them. I did cave on starting a blood pressure medication and a low-dose aspirin, however. But I see the drawbacks on those much less than with a statin.
Any thoughts, especially regarding statins and the overall danger of cholesterol in the 240 range?
I'm skeptical of any kind of medication a doctor is trying to push on me. I read somewhere they receive 10% of the cost as payment from the drug companies that make it.
It's hard finding a doctor you trust, I've been seeing a nurse practitioner for about four years and I really trust/like her.