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Old November 30th 04, 11:23 PM
Karstens Rage
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Olebiker wrote:
My no-good brother-in-law left this morning to go back to Indiana.
He's my wife's brother and I love him, but all the guy wanted to do was
sit on the couch, watch television, and drink beer. The only time he
would get off the couch was to go outside to smoke since we wouldn't
let him smoke in the house. He's 50 years old and must weigh 300
pounds.

I tried my best to entertain him while he was here but, after he left I
was excited to get back on the bike and go for a ride.


My dad left on Sunday. He's 75 yo and has trouble walking to the car.
The reason we walked to the car was so we could go get donuts or eclairs
or eat, eat, eat, eat, eat. It wasnt even gluttonous but it still made
me itch.

Literally the minute he left I went for a 40 miler with a hell of a lot
of climbing. I cant describe the feeling, but those who know already know.

Whether its true or not, the only thing that keeps me going is the
thought that at 75, Ill still be able to get on a bike, if Im still alive.

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Old December 1st 04, 02:11 AM
Tim McNamara
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Karstens Rage writes:

My dad left on Sunday. He's 75 yo and has trouble walking to the
car. The reason we walked to the car was so we could go get donuts
or eclairs or eat, eat, eat, eat, eat. It wasnt even gluttonous but
it still made me itch.

Literally the minute he left I went for a 40 miler with a hell of a
lot of climbing. I cant describe the feeling, but those who know
already know.

Whether its true or not, the only thing that keeps me going is the
thought that at 75, Ill still be able to get on a bike, if Im still
alive.


The most recent "Vintage Bicycle Quarterly" featured an interview with
Paulette Porthault, who has been an enthusiastic cyclist for 70 years.
At 75, she rode up the Galibier just for fun and because she was in
the area. At 91, she can still ride 25 miles. That's what I'm
shooting for!

http://www.globalaging.org/elderrigh...orolympics.htm

It's apparently never too late to have a happy childhood!
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Old December 1st 04, 02:11 AM
Tim McNamara
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Karstens Rage writes:

My dad left on Sunday. He's 75 yo and has trouble walking to the
car. The reason we walked to the car was so we could go get donuts
or eclairs or eat, eat, eat, eat, eat. It wasnt even gluttonous but
it still made me itch.

Literally the minute he left I went for a 40 miler with a hell of a
lot of climbing. I cant describe the feeling, but those who know
already know.

Whether its true or not, the only thing that keeps me going is the
thought that at 75, Ill still be able to get on a bike, if Im still
alive.


The most recent "Vintage Bicycle Quarterly" featured an interview with
Paulette Porthault, who has been an enthusiastic cyclist for 70 years.
At 75, she rode up the Galibier just for fun and because she was in
the area. At 91, she can still ride 25 miles. That's what I'm
shooting for!

http://www.globalaging.org/elderrigh...orolympics.htm

It's apparently never too late to have a happy childhood!
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Old December 1st 04, 03:45 PM
Kenny
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Denver C. Fox wrote:

I am 65, and I ride and weight lift and walk because I like the feeling of
being in control of my body and the absolute joy of being in the fresh outside.

I just came back from a 2.5 mile walk in the sunny snow. Such a pleasure, and
2.5 miles to me walking in the snow is as easy as a 25 mile bike ride!

However, there are no guarantees. September 1st I started continuous atrial
fibrillation, and have been fighting it ever since. This is despite my years
of biking, walking, hiking and eating right.


Just think where you'd might be if you didn't exercise and eat right.

Kenny
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Old December 1st 04, 03:45 PM
Kenny
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Denver C. Fox wrote:

I am 65, and I ride and weight lift and walk because I like the feeling of
being in control of my body and the absolute joy of being in the fresh outside.

I just came back from a 2.5 mile walk in the sunny snow. Such a pleasure, and
2.5 miles to me walking in the snow is as easy as a 25 mile bike ride!

However, there are no guarantees. September 1st I started continuous atrial
fibrillation, and have been fighting it ever since. This is despite my years
of biking, walking, hiking and eating right.


Just think where you'd might be if you didn't exercise and eat right.

Kenny
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Old December 1st 04, 04:49 PM
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Yes, the thought has occurred to me!

Will be going another cardioversion (2 unsiccessful so far) after being on a
regimen of Paceron for three weeks.

If not successful, will consider an ablation where they out a catheter into
your pulmonary vein and use either RF or cryogenics to freezse the offencing
heart part. They cryo is brand new and is being trialed right now.

Last alternative is to learn to live with it!

Just think where you'd might be if you didn't exercise and eat right.




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Old December 1st 04, 04:49 PM
Denver C. Fox
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Yes, the thought has occurred to me!

Will be going another cardioversion (2 unsiccessful so far) after being on a
regimen of Paceron for three weeks.

If not successful, will consider an ablation where they out a catheter into
your pulmonary vein and use either RF or cryogenics to freezse the offencing
heart part. They cryo is brand new and is being trialed right now.

Last alternative is to learn to live with it!

Just think where you'd might be if you didn't exercise and eat right.




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Old December 2nd 04, 12:39 AM
Denver C. Fox
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What is most irritating about the atrial fibrillation is that at the time we
were with Kaiser Permanente, and I had sent two faxes directly to our supposed
doctor (internist) describing my symptoms in detail - pulse of 158, BP 80/54,
lack of energy, etc., etc.

I sent one on September 8th after one week of this, asking her to call me "If
she had any concerns" and followed up one week later with the same repeated
info, again asking her to call me if she had any concerns. The next week, she
was on the phone to Nora, and I picked up the line and asked her about the
situation - she said she "Was not impressed" but said I could see her if I
wanted to discuss it. I told her I had tried, and the first available
appointment was October 29th. She said that was not her concern, and that I
should not be communicating with a fax.

The next week, with every symprom continuing, I was urged by a couple of MD's
in my bicycling newsgroup to see a MD pronto. So, I made an appointment that
day, but when I fot to Kaiser was told that it was the next day! So I got to
see another MD, and he did an EKG and a rhythm strip, and bundled me up in an
ambulance and sent me 20 miles to the emergency room of the local Kaiser
hospital, where I spent overnight with diagnostic tests.

Anyway, I blame that I did not get to see a MD earlier on some of the
difficulty I am having getting into normal sinus rhythm. But, what to do?

We did write a letter to Kaiser's local clinic asking for a change of MD's.
When I got no response, I was able to get the, evidently secret, fax number of
the President of KP Colorado and faxed the faxes and my letter to the local
clinic to him.

We got a change of MD's, but in the meantime were told by the allergy clnic
that they could not see my wife on an ongoing basis for her severe allergies
because they were too busy with new referral evaluations.

We "escaped" from Kaiser on November 1st. Never again.

Denver Fox wrote:
However, there are no guarantees. September 1st I started continuous atrial

fibrillation, and have been fighting it ever since. This is despite my years
of biking, walking, hiking and eating right. However, my heart is otherwise in
such great shape that I can still do extended walks and rides with no
difficulty.

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