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10-03-2011, 11:57 AM
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To stop a health rumor about a TV collector
Probably an inappropriate post, but I hope it's OK...
I have heard something going around, and certainly out-of-control, about a SoCal TV collector falling into sudden bad health, and actually, I've heard of some false information that some rare TVs will be for sale. This is not the case, and the collector in the rumor is not going to die prematurely  . It's blown WAY out of proportion, and I can personally guarantee this fact.Shame on the one(s) who started it, and I know who it was, and that it was NOT anyone on this board. So if anyone comes up with a post about this, I'm preempting any hassles, I hope. Charles
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10-03-2011, 12:32 PM
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That's pretty callous, one thing I like about this hobby is the "All for one, one for all" aspect it still basically has. We tend to be supportive of each other, & when one of us scores, I don't feel jealousy as much as happiness that another old set is saved...
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10-11-2011, 11:34 AM
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OK; here's the rest of the story... The SoCal TV collector about whom the rumor was, is me. I put the post after a friend alerted me that someone had asked him if He knew where all of my TVs were stored.
It's true that I had a heart problem come up suddenly, and God was watching over me as I'm still here writing this. Long story short, I have a birth defect called "bicuspid aortic valve anomaly" It's a malformed valve body, which can only function at 66% of what a normal one does. The result is damage to the aortic valve and aortic root, causing it to blow apart in the worst situation (guaranteed instantly fatal). About 5 weeks ago, my blood pressure started wavering all over the place, and my pulse at rest went uo to 110+. then it started skipping beats, and started a bad arrhythmia. I was scared sh*tless. The good news is that after a doctor in the Soviet Republik of Kalifornia told me I "could die suddenly without warning any minute", my father-in-law made a few calls, and I rushed here to Dallas for an all-day appointment at the Cooper Clinic; likely the best heart health hospital in the country. The final diagnosis and prognosis is, I will need a new aortic valve, and the aorta "replanted", which is really scary since they will have to saw me all apart, stop the heart, and restart it after the work is done. The good news is that I likely have at least 10 years before I need to do it, and I hope maybe things will advance by then in new procedures. In the meantime, we hope and think that the blood peerssure and the arrhythmia will be controlled enough with meds. And the ultimate reward to me, is that both the lawsuit-fearing communist doctor in CA, and the diagnose-on-ethics-and-reality doctor here in Dallas, say that I'd have died by age 30 if I had ever neglected my body, or had not maintained super-low body fat and been athletic the whole time. It hasn't really sunk in yet for me, and after 30 years in the gym, and passing up the burgers, fries and pies, I feel like I am validated somehow. People have made fun of me in the past for being obsessed with fitness, and I'm glad my Irish head is thick enough to know my goals and meet them. Charles
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Collecting & restoring TVs in Los Angeles since age 10 Last edited by kx250rider; 10-11-2011 at 11:46 AM.
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10-13-2011, 06:54 PM
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That's serious and painful surgery, I won't kid you about that. They sawed me open and they told me that my heart was stopped for about an hour while they monkeyed around with my arteries. That was nine years ago almost to the day. (A few months before the first Early Television Convention, I remember!) I was only 48 with no clear indications of trouble other than no longer being able to walk briskly around the block without having to stop and rest. It was more than a few weeks of recovery before I was lugging TVs around again, but I've been happily lugging them ever since. I sincerely wish you didn't need to have this done, but if you have to have exotic surgery, these are good times to be living in; they've gotten very good at this sort of thing. You're welcome to PM me about this f you'd like. --Dave
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10-13-2011, 08:38 PM
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Charles,
I know how you must be feeling. I recently had the Grim Reaper in my rearview mirror. One afternoon in February, I found myself short of breath driving home from work. Coffee and the stress of driving on ice and snow got my BP elevated, and I had my son call 911 when I got home. I was given Oxygen and a ride to the ER, where a doctor said I was just minutes away from intubation. I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and left with 9 meds to take every day for the rest of my life. Now the Cardiologist wants me on the Cath-lab table, hooked up to the very monitoring equipment I was a factory tech on most of my career. Be strong, best of luck, and I'll be rootin' for ya! Einar
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10-11-2011, 11:45 AM
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Glad and thankful to hear that you are well and healthy and going to stay that way!
Meanwhile I diagnose toxic levels of AM radio intake, but at least that won't kill you in the strictly literal sense.
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10-11-2011, 02:08 PM
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Yikes! Good thing you got that second oppinion.
Over ten years back my family on a regular vacation to our cabbin up north, did some thing new there. We decided to walk a river and Dad refused to wear pool shoes like Mom was badgering him to. Hours later, after we had been in the cabin for a while dad took off his shoe and the shoe and sock were saturated in blood! He had also refused to wear pool shoes in the lake the cabbin is located on before the river jaunt (but nothing bad has happened at the lake before or since so the river is the likely suspect). A leech had gotten between his toes and had been there a long time. To make a long story short that leech gave Dad a rare infection which eventually got to the point that Dads leg was pulsing red and extremely swolen, and we feared that he would loose it. The doctor was gearing up for some convention, and really dropped the ball on diagnosing Dad, and instead of acknoledging his mistake and doing everything in his power to help Dad he entered cover his ass mode and began to hinder efforts to help Dad. We aren't the type of folks to sue doctors, but this made Mom so mad that she contemplated it. It was a mystery problem untill from touching/being around dad milder versions of the thing got me Mom and the cat to have our hands turn redish and burn where we had contact. Mom then went to the local VET who knew more about medicine that the doctor and asked what diseases with matching symptoms to this could affect both cats and humans, and the vet gave her two possibilities that she soon researched, and when she told the doctor to test for one which there was a test for the doctor (Bastard) stalled untill it was too late for the test to detect it! Dad probably would have lost his leg if he was not a joger. The doctors kept the mutual cover ass mode untill well into Mom having a hospitalizing case of it. Hers lead to some as of yet still undiagnosed stomach problem that can be for the most part controled (It can still leave her bedridden if she is not careful). This whole event left me and especially my folks permanently weary of doctors, and in the case of Moms bug Pissed that they tend to be so arrogent that they will tell you that you must be Imagining things or wrong as soon as you get a alement that is outside their experience. Most doctors simply believe that they know everything and are infalible when such a mind set is not only dead wrong, but also harmfull to all whom they treat.
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10-12-2011, 11:56 AM
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Thank you for all the good wishes, and I think this is also an appropriate time for me to apologize for making braggart posts in the past about my physical condition. My pass time has always been fitness and bodybuilding, and I know I have been the first one to post up whenever a weight loss thread starts, and I've posted pictures which were a little too much. Maybe this heart problem is wake-up call from beyond, to warn me to be a little more humble because I was stronger in the mouth (and keyboard) than in the mind and heart.
Charles
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10-12-2011, 04:11 PM
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Glad you found out, so you can care for yourself and allow us to pick your brains. All kidding aside, do as doctors orders and relish every day. Knowledge of what is going on in your body is a good thing.
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10-12-2011, 04:51 PM
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hey, great news about getting that second opinion! Glad you can enjoy life with some piece of mind now.
but seriously, Dave, are you really asking technical questions in this thread?  
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