Guest guest Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Caroline wrote: > *Well here is the situation as I know it happened. Last year at this > time she found out she had a blockage in a major artery in her leg. > They went in to see if they could find the blockage...she went in > December 22nd to have this procedure done..since she was off of school > for Winter break. While she was in there she had an episode of some > sort where her heart rate skyrocketed. She had told the doctor that > this has happened before but not frequently. They kept her over an > extra night for observation and the cardiologist put her on Coumadin > at that point and was released on December 24. > > Then this past August...she went in for a procedure due to two valves > closing to her heart...they put in a stint (?) for each one...I'm not > sure of the technical terms and you have to understand that I'm > getting this from my mother who speaks French as her native language > and easily misunderstands things said to her from the doctors...lol. > Since then...they seem to be playing with her medications. They keep > adding and adding and adding. > > She then informed me that as far as some of the medications she was > taking goes...she isn't even sure why she is taking some of them. She > said that the Coumadin she was still taking because the doctor she is > going to didn't want to take her off of it since the cardiologist put > her on it and he doesn't want to over step him...huh?...sounds pretty > stupid to me. She also told me that when she went to have her blood > pressure taken it was slightly high...but that the nurse also told her > that it was often slightly elevated in the morning and that is when > she had it taken...but yet the doctor still put her on a blood > pressure medication...again...huh?...now keep in mind that the doctor > that she has been seeing for many many years...retired last year > before her first surgery...and of course after that is when all of > this craziness started. > > So now here we are today with all of these meds...and my mom who is 72 > years old...and teaches Kindergarten...coming home from school each > day and collapsing. Yes, I know...teaching Kindergarten would make > anyone want to collapse...lol...but she LOVES what she does...and > plans on teaching another year if she is able...and this is why I want > to try and help her...because I want her to be able to teach another > year. > > Any thoughts on this would be wonderful...I'm printing out all > responses and bringing them back to her. That way she will know I am > not just making all of this stuff up! lol Thank you so much! > > Caroline > > * ==================== Hi Caroline, All I can say is cleansing and dietary change to more raw with lots of juicing. Cayenne, garlic, ginger and hawthorne for the BP and circulation. Not something she wants to hear I am sure but the only way she will get off the drugs and begin to get healthy again. -- Peace, love and light, Don Quai " Spirit sleeps in the mineral, breathes in the vegetable, dreams in the animal and wakes in man. " -- In compliance with the highest standards of Universal Law, this email has been thoroughly disinfected and purified in the solar flares of the sun. Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.290 / Virus Database: 265.4.3 - Release Date: 11/26/04 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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