The Double Whammy of an MI followed by t Unprintable..? 2026 3 31
Believing these past 24 years almost that I got to draw the long straw my brother J the shorter one like our Da before us who regretfully died 1945 8 4 from Leukemia in Canburra OZ en route to the Japanese theatre of War...
My elder brother J junior always for as far as I can remember being diagnosed with a myloma which for most of his soon to be 88 yrs has been in remission.
Getting instead my MI at 62 on 6th April a few days short of 24 yrs ago after my father's male antecedents his dad dying in what i presumed to be a coronary event aged between 50 and 52, when my father was 8 yrs old, and famously declared "Now my Mam won't have to buy him any more beer", an Irishman who's own father came from Dublin, an RC presumably, whilst his own mother's father also hailed from the emerald isle, from Clonas in t west of County Monaghan, bordering Donegal, an Orangeman for his sins, when normally never the twain shall meet. But suffice to say it was my grandfather's widow who later admonished her daughter's first born son, David, that he should never marry a Roman Catholic (little suspecting that she herself had done so herself to her dying regretfulness!?)
...to be concluded later once the sun begins to set...now i must away for my daily dip in the Baltic -sea...
True to my word the sun has now set and I'd like to complete this offering...
My MI was a wake up call for a man who until that moment believed himself to be indestructable if not immortal, lol. That it didn't happen between my 50th and 52nd b-d's like by paternal Grand and Great Grandfathers, plus my Father's only sibling, his sister, I have attributed to the fact I have worked out every day of my life from age 21, when I first had girl-trouble and needed to get my head sorted out. That on the one hand, and an altogether healthier life style than the earlier generations helped, by regular health checkups, etc.
That it stopped both me and my wife smoking was also a bonus from this event.
But the latest thing to hit in the double whammy of today's blog title came out of the blue, save to say that when I go through my PSA results for the last 10 years, it becomes apparent that it had been coming for some time. That the local health service had in a manner of speaking discontinued the test, in my case might have resulted in a full-on outbreak but for the fact this dear friend of mine had told how he had been diagnosed as a result of asking for the PSA test to be conducted, as mentioned earlier...
So now in the aftermath, I am beginning to thank my lucky stars again, because the outcome so far suggests that if I recover, I could well have another 10 years of active life ahead of me..?
Overnight then, almost I get the new feeling how much those ppl in my family who know of these events, and I have expressed the wish that no-one needs to mention it to anyone who doesn't need to know: that for the most part excludes most of the female members. How these most knowledgeable have become more caring, when the knock on effect is that I feel myself doubly lucky for having such a caring family!
So out of a double whammy I'm still feeling I am nevertheless still on the winning side: so trying to push the top of my game a wee while longer..!?
My elder brother J junior always for as far as I can remember being diagnosed with a myloma which for most of his soon to be 88 yrs has been in remission.
Getting instead my MI at 62 on 6th April a few days short of 24 yrs ago after my father's male antecedents his dad dying in what i presumed to be a coronary event aged between 50 and 52, when my father was 8 yrs old, and famously declared "Now my Mam won't have to buy him any more beer", an Irishman who's own father came from Dublin, an RC presumably, whilst his own mother's father also hailed from the emerald isle, from Clonas in t west of County Monaghan, bordering Donegal, an Orangeman for his sins, when normally never the twain shall meet. But suffice to say it was my grandfather's widow who later admonished her daughter's first born son, David, that he should never marry a Roman Catholic (little suspecting that she herself had done so herself to her dying regretfulness!?)
...to be concluded later once the sun begins to set...now i must away for my daily dip in the Baltic -sea...
True to my word the sun has now set and I'd like to complete this offering...
My MI was a wake up call for a man who until that moment believed himself to be indestructable if not immortal, lol. That it didn't happen between my 50th and 52nd b-d's like by paternal Grand and Great Grandfathers, plus my Father's only sibling, his sister, I have attributed to the fact I have worked out every day of my life from age 21, when I first had girl-trouble and needed to get my head sorted out. That on the one hand, and an altogether healthier life style than the earlier generations helped, by regular health checkups, etc.
That it stopped both me and my wife smoking was also a bonus from this event.
But the latest thing to hit in the double whammy of today's blog title came out of the blue, save to say that when I go through my PSA results for the last 10 years, it becomes apparent that it had been coming for some time. That the local health service had in a manner of speaking discontinued the test, in my case might have resulted in a full-on outbreak but for the fact this dear friend of mine had told how he had been diagnosed as a result of asking for the PSA test to be conducted, as mentioned earlier...
So now in the aftermath, I am beginning to thank my lucky stars again, because the outcome so far suggests that if I recover, I could well have another 10 years of active life ahead of me..?
Overnight then, almost I get the new feeling how much those ppl in my family who know of these events, and I have expressed the wish that no-one needs to mention it to anyone who doesn't need to know: that for the most part excludes most of the female members. How these most knowledgeable have become more caring, when the knock on effect is that I feel myself doubly lucky for having such a caring family!
So out of a double whammy I'm still feeling I am nevertheless still on the winning side: so trying to push the top of my game a wee while longer..!?
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