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Posted: 01.07.2003 I just stand by and watch you fight your secret war
I'm a bad, bad wife. I went with Todd to the doctor's office today to find out all of his annual physical bloodwork results. (Ironically, I needed to be in a doctor's office much more than he did this afternoon -- but I still wanted to be there with him.) It's a good thing, too. It sounds like I'm going to have to take charge of the diet plan around here. When I'm too sick to cook we end up eating out and it's catching up with my husband.
Granted, they did his bloodwork in the midst of holiday eating season (how unfair is that) -- but his triglycerides were at around 450 (when they should have been at 150ish). His good cholesterol was at 33 when it should have been 60 or higher. His "bad" cholesterol was also high. There was also a "heart attack risk" indicator test, and he should have been around 2-4 for his age. He's at a 7. So I got a lecture from the babushka about his diet and he got one about his lack of exercise. A cruel slap back to reality that the last few months have turned us into 30-somethings, instead of "eat all you want, we'll make more" 20-somethings. Needless to say, our original Checkers dinner plans were scrapped for Honeybaked Ham on the way home.  i can help ya out with the gym part, but you're on your own with that whole "dieting" thing. ¤ ¤ credit: mikey | 01.07.03 at 06:32 PM | link- -this ¤ ¤ Damn. I'm so sorry to hear about Todd's heart problems. The doctor didn't order you to cut down on the "Hot Tub Parties", did he? -this ¤ ¤Oh he doesn't have heart problems yet -- it's just something we have to watch now with diet and excercise in his 30s so he won't have them in his 40s. I told him if he even thinks he's going to die on top of me when we're having sex, I'm going to kill him. ;-) ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 01.07.03 at 07:25 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Sounds like Todd should be getting a shiny new road bike for a Valentine's Day present! ¤ ¤ credit: Cap'nSwanky | 01.07.03 at 07:46 PM | link--this ¤ ¤The way to avoid all the high cholesterol and the lectures is just not go to the Dr. at all. Seems to work for me. :) ¤ ¤ credit: Jay | 01.07.03 at 08:03 PM | link--this ¤ ¤I'll send the Geritol and Ensure. Man, you weren't kidding about those Depends, were you? ;) ¤ ¤ credit: Ashley | 01.07.03 at 09:33 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Same at the Donahue household. I went on a tri medication about 18 months ago and it's done wonders for me. My cholesterol went from 288 (damn!) to 165 (yahootie!). My tri-s went from 480+ to 187. Seems part of my problem was my under-active thyroid, but can't argue with the tri medicine (Tricor). Hope Todd takes the steps necessary to bring it in line without the medicine, but there's only so much that some of us can do, huh? Help him out and you can keep him around for a good long time. (Assuming you would want to, of course!) :) ¤ ¤ credit: Kevin | 01.07.03 at 10:03 PM | link--this ¤ ¤as they say at Checkers ... "You gotta eat!" ¤ ¤ credit: tj | 01.08.03 at 12:10 AM | link--this ¤ ¤See, that's the problem with Doctors these days: only in it for profit. You guys had the wool pulled over your eyes, and quite convincingly at that. Todd's fine; everybody knows that triglycerides were the bad guys on the original Star Trek. ¤ ¤ credit: Quinn | 01.08.03 at 12:12 AM | link--this ¤ ¤Egads! I come from a family with horrible cholesterol levels and ... ouch! Aren't the results more long term and lingering than just the holidays? Just curious - I would think they were more long term. Poor Todd! Dieting and exercise is rough! ¤ ¤ credit: Christine | 01.08.03 at 01:30 AM | link--this ¤ ¤Yeah, he's got a family history of it -- so he's at the age where he'll be fighting the rest of his life unfortunately. I haven't been able to get him in to the doctor for an annual since we moved here -- but I put my hands on my hips when he turned 30, took the "I'm your wife and you're gonna" stance -- and now I'm glad I did. He won't be missing each year from now on. The holidays wouldn't make a problem that wasn't there...but she said with all the cooking I did (tons of desserts, fatty foods, stuff drenched in butter like holiday roll, etc.) that certainly didn't make it any better. Oh well! You only live once... ¤ ¤ credit: robyn | 01.08.03 at 01:47 AM | link--this ¤ ¤Oatmeal ... eat a bowl of oatmeal every morning and it will help, trust me! ¤ ¤ credit: tj | 01.08.03 at 11:12 AM | link--this ¤ ¤I'm kickin' his ass if he dies. ¤ ¤ credit: statia | 01.08.03 at 06:13 PM | link--this ¤ ¤Robyn, I have high cholesterol well, I did. For 18 years. It runs in the family. I was at 290 and I am now on 40mg of Zocor a night. I'm now at 158. :) I was a 8 on the heart attack scale, which scared me to death and they sent me to a cholesterol workshop, even after I told them it's in the family. I finally got a doctor that listened and put me on Zocor. It's nice to know that I will be around to watch my kids grow up! Have him talk to a doctor about that, as there is a family history, it's not his fault, what he eats or anything, it's just his liver making those bad ole thangs. ;) ¤ ¤ credit: Simply Sara | 01.08.03 at 07:05 PM | link--this ¤ ¤
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