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- Cancer
- Stroke
- Aneurism
Suicide shows up far too often. Y'all need help!
TBF a lot of people who are bed-ridden by any of your three answers have a higher frequency of ending it from an OD of their pain meds, especially if they're terminal.
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Definitely heart.
Here's my story, please take from it and do not do what I did... (LONG STORY)
First heart attack was 3 days after Thanksgiving, 2018. It presented as really bad heartburn. 24 hour a day heartburn. Unrelenting, unresponsive to Pepto heartburn.
In my defense it WAS 3 days after Thanksgiving, and I DID have that extra plate of sweet potatoes.
Monday, heartburn all day, hard to sleep.
Tuesday, same.
Wednesday, same + nausea and vomiting, called out sick from work (yes, I worked Mon/Tue).Thursday... The heartburn pain moved into my upper arms, which I did not know was a thing. The pain in my chest was gone, but it felt like I had a STONE in the center of my chest, heavy, pulling down on my innards.
Advice line sent me to the ER, ER ran a simple Troponin blood test, normal is 0-99, mine was 328. Confirming the heart attack but at this point the damage was done and the only fix was an open heart bypass. Doc tells me the heavy feeling was my heart, each heartbeat was only pumping out 30% the normal amount which is right on the line between "walking around, talking to people", and no longer "walking around, talking to people."
Thu-Sun - Cardiac Ward.
Mon - Open Heart Surgery, ICU.
Tue - ICU.
Wed-Fri - Cardiac Ward, and back home.1/2/2019 - I start having complications. If I lie down, I can't breathe, it's like I'm drowning in my own bed... BUUUUT... My company got acquired by a new one on 1/1 which meant my health insurance changed, I lost my hospital and all of my doctors and had to start over in a new medical system with the new insurance.
"Oh, you can't just 'go' to Cardology, you have to see primary care first, and there's a 3 month wait."
Twisted some arms, explained I just got cut open like a lobster and couldn't breathe, got an appt. in 2 weeks.
So I bought a fancy travel pillow and slept sitting up for 2 weeks since laying down would drown me.
Primary care checks me out, sends me home, says "Wait for my call." Call comes the next day... Congestive Heart Failure, get to the ER immediately.
I had developed an irregular heartbeat and my chest was full of fluid, when I would lay down, the fluid would level, crushing my heart and lungs. That feeling like I was drowning? Yeah, I was drowning, in my own chest fluid.
7 days in the hospital, they pulled 4 liters of fluid out EVERY DAY. 48 pounds of fluid.
Over the course of 2019 it was one complication after another after another. We continued juggling meds of different types and dosages.
By 2024 I had a bout where I was seriously out of breath, not like the CHF drowning thing, but I'd get out of breath walking to the bathroom.
Doc sends me to the ER where I have the 2nd heart attack. In the middle of a snow and ice storm. And a power outage.
"Did I just have a stroke?"
"Naw, it's cool, emergency generator just kicked in..."
Because of the snow and ice, I couldn't get to my preferred hospital, I had to go to the closest one, which wasn't the best one.
They did confirm the heart attack, and ran an angiogram to confirm I needed a stent, but couldn't do the stent. I'd have to be ambulanced to the GOOD hospital for the stent.
BUUUT... emergency services were overloaded due to the storm and the ambulance couldn't get there right away.
First night in the hospital... wake up at 6 AM, fiddling around on my phone, hey, Lemmy aint gonna moderate itself!
Nurse comes in:
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart rate dropped to 40."
"Ummm... is that bad? I don't know these things."
Yeah, it's bad.
So ambulance still can't get there... One more night in the hospital. Same deal. Next morning, same nurse comes in.
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why? Heart rate again?"
"No, your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
"Ummm... 'thank you'? I don't know what the correct response is to 'your heart stopped'. Shouldn't the alarms and stuff have gone off? I don't remember hearing anything."
"Oh, they don't go off in the room, they went off at the nurses station."
Ambulance finally arrived, got me to the GOOD hospital, and I got the stent and survived.
"Did the alarm go off an hour ago or just now?" lol.
That's a crazy fucking story. A bit of a scared straight moment for me, though I'm not really sure what I should be changing. Heart stuff really freaks me out, and I guess the idea that it could manifest as something so seemingly trivial is terrifying.
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Some clumsy act on my part spirals out of control like a final destination. All because I'm clumsy.
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Heart attack easy. Runs in the family
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to much shit and piss
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"Did the alarm go off an hour ago or just now?" lol.
That's a crazy fucking story. A bit of a scared straight moment for me, though I'm not really sure what I should be changing. Heart stuff really freaks me out, and I guess the idea that it could manifest as something so seemingly trivial is terrifying.
Change your diet and start exercising, #1 and #2. More veggies, more whole grains.
I've started eating this stuff from Trader Joe's called Farro. It's wheat, but you make it like pasta, and it's a rice form factor. Super tasty.
https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/10-minute-farro-094506
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Suicide is your #2? Murdered specifically by a family member is higher than cancer?
Mate, do you need to talk?
Generally speaking, people are bad at understanding the odds/chances of something in the real world applying to them.
Everyone should be terrified of cancer, it's the #1 killer. But nobody puts it on their list because it either feels obvious, or by not giving it the time of day people feel like they won't "get it". This sort of response from people is normal.
With that said, they specifically call out the way they're going to commit suicide, so yeah, you're still right to ask they're doing ok...
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On March 4th, 2033 at 6:32am local time I will trip and fall walking downstairs. Where I will smack my head on the newel post at the bottom, breaking my neck and causing a severe skull fracture. I will lie semi-conscious on the floor for the next 16 minutes and 27 seconds before expiring at 6:50am local time.
I don't know what happens after that.
Lol, that was going to be no 3 on my list. I'm at an age where I don't fall over, I "have a fall", and my own stupid feet are a trip hazard. It's going to kill me one of these days, if heart disease or cancer doesn't get me first.
Must be nice having an exact time to work towards!
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Old age in my sleep. Most people in my family have lived to be in their 90's!
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Most probably heart or vascular related ilness.
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There's a history of heart conditions on my dad's side so probably that.
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- Heart attack
- Liver disease
- russian bomb attack.
In no any particular order.
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Heart attack, stroke, blood clot, or bleeding out. Being on blood thinners, I'd say those are probably likely things that will kill me.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]The way the world is going, it could be anything from starvation this decade to the eventual heat death of the universe.
I don't expect heart disease will be the death sentence it is now in a few decades, barring a local or global collapse of civilisation.
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I would also read a book about an IT expert that curses under their breath frequently.
That's everyone in IT
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That's everyone in IT
Then, they need to write novels. Here are some suggestions to help them get started:
To Code a Mockingbird
Pride and Protocols
The Git Gatsby
The Old Man and the C
Java Eyre
Brave New Web
The Lord of the Pings
The Catcher in the GUI
Crime and Compilation
A Tale of Two Servers
Wuthering .htaccess
Anna Kernel-nina
Great Exceptions
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Considering my bad luck, from very, very old age.
