Making Sense.

After the initial period of continuing a daily life uninterrupted on the surface but with the mind swirling, and feeling like the hand of death was dancing over my head in the same way as Paul McCartney was depicted on the cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band when his demise was being "proved", a series of questions have evolved.

The Questions:

So what exactly is involved with the issue and my heart?

What are the potential remedies?

What are the complications to any remedies?

Having been treated with cholesterol lowering drugs since my late thirties, have I been paying money needlessly and been ripped off?

What exercise is potentially bad exercise?

If my heart is affected by narrowing of the arteries, what about arteries in other parts of my body and how will I know about these?

What can I change today to help me in the future?

Do I tell my children?


I have been dealing with the answers to these questions with enough success to know what is going on but not enough to answer them all. In time that will be clearer. What is quite clear though is when the pack of genetic cards were shuffled in my making, the last laugh was with the shuffler as it was ensured there was a joker in the pack. Whilst my dealt cards contained fitness, good looks, modesty and the ability to sing the song" That's the way aha aha I like it aha aha" entirely using burps, the latent card of high blood pressure and hypercholesterolaemia ( high cholesterol) was the hidden gem.

On my fathers side their hearts were like the Volkswagen Beetle, low revving and indestructible. My mother's contribution however reads more like the MG Rover in a study by Warranty Direct, with the worst possible failure rate of any motor car. It had virtually prematurely eliminated her side of the family although not entirely,( yahoo for genetic variability, there is hope) and had lead her to bypass surgery at fifty eight years of age. The surgery it must be noted led her to the ripe of age of eighty three. Yahoo, thank you modern medicine!

You can't blame existence, you can't lay blame at anything really. It is what it is.Make the most of any situation and proceed with factual answers. And therefore to the list of questions, next time.