question re: cardiac stent
Night before last, our nephew, age 47, smoker, not overweight, was taken to the hospital with weakness and profound sweating. A cardiac blockage was diagnosed from a scan and yesterday, the procedure...
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I am still wayne_tw wrote:
Unless anyone who is responding is a physician, all comments are anecdotal, including mine.
Smoking is a killer. Not only the obvious cancer risk, but the less obvious cardio-vascular risk.
Your nephew continues to smoke and kills himself, or stops smoking and allows his body to start healing.
Understood. DH and I don't smoke and neither have our kids, probably mostly because of allergies, we couldn't tolerate it. The branch of the family tree that lives in the Deep South is another story. Those relatives in our kids' generation eat too much and smoke, many are diabetic, a bunch of them are already gone. Just sad. The 40's ought to be a good time of life.
