In article >,
"Bob (this one)" > wrote:

> He didn't think it was funny. The residents were smirking.
>
> Later he said, "You look good. Well-healed. You can pretty much resume
> normal life."
>
> I said, Does that mean drinking, smoking and the thing I like to do with
> the livestock..."
>
> Not even a tiny smile, but a couple of the residents excused themselves
> and I could hear them howling out in the hall.

<lol> Your doc should realize you can't keep a good man down.

>
> > You should be good to go for another 20 years at least,
> > and now you know how to keep your cholesterol under control?
>
> My cholesterol at its highest was 160. Now 105. Trigs wonderful. Heart
> rate grand. Respiration rate, splendid. HDL/LDL ratio textbook. And I'll
> get little twinges for the rest of my life. But it's way better than the
> most obvious alternative.
>
> It's so bizarre. My numbers were magnificent while I was having a heart
> attack. I should have been in the Olympics instead of that hospital bed.
> We finally came to the conclusion that I chose my parents unwisely.
>
> So it goes...
>
> Pastorio

Weird. With those numbers, you should have been ok?
What were your triglycerides before? Popular opinion points at those
being FAR worse than a high cholesterol.

Some docs are drifting more towards checking homocysteine levels now.
It's not popular tho' as bad levels of that can be treated with B
vitamins. <G> No profit for the drug companies.

It might explain what happened? Looky he

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