Living With Vascular, Heart Or Aortic Disease? A confidential survey, to help patients improve the process! All data made available publicly AND confidentially, at this link! Create your own user feedback survey Designed based on my AAA stent graft experiences. Just read the survey questions, and you will: Be better prepared for your surgery, the hospital stay, interactions with ... Read more
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Select Your FitOldDog Subject From The FitOldDog Links Below Whether it be vascular disease, plantar fasciitis, healthy aging, sports injury, or another FitOldDog Links topic. Kev aka FitOldDog PS I'm all into podcasting right now, but I'll be writing again, very soon. You can find the FitOldDog podcasts here: FitOldDog Links: Vascular/Aortic Disease Aortic aneurysm Aortic dissection Heart ... Read more
Aortic Surgery: Fourteen Simple Tips To Help Your Patients!
Aorta Patient's Perspective? After Aortic Surgery, You're Essentially On Your Own! It can't be helped! It's up to us, to help each other! Much Appreciated Aortic Surgeons Are Too Busy, Saving Other Lives! Aortic surgery is modern magic, that has saved my life, and that of countless others. New aortic surgery techniques could have extended the life of Albert Einstein, but he was born too soon. They did what ... Read more
Aortic Disease From The Patient’s Perspective: Research Survey
Aortic Disease Comes With Challenges I work to optimize the outcome, from the patient's perspective! As a researcher, I like to do research, to solve people's problems. Aortic disease provides some interesting responsibilities for the patient. Your doctors and surgeons, unless they live with you, can't guide your every step. The more you are involved in preparing, undergoing, recovering from, and then ... Read more
Returning To Running Later In Life
Major Surgery Recovery? Should I Return To My Sport? You need a safe exercise program! First Complete FitOldDog's Sport Benefit-Risk Analysis People told me not to do this - Too Dangerous!!! Did it anyway - sport benefit-risk analysis. "The choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy, but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately ... Read more
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Be A FitOldDog This blog, and the FitOldDog brand, were created in direct response to a major health challenge. An abdominal aortic aneurysm, detected as a result of odd things happening during the 2010 Lake Placid Ironman. I was 67 years old at the time, and fit as fiddle! This precipitated my departure from a 40-year career as a veterinary pathologist and researcher. A career I had enjoyed immensely. Having ... Read more
Living With Aortic Disease, Exercising Wisely
Living With Aortic Disease Once you come to terms with having aortic disease. With or without surgery. Get your life back on track. One aspect of a life on track is healthy exercise. In my case, Ironman! I love it! Keeps me out of assisted living! But I approached my return to my sport carefully. Removing any training that might risk my stent, such as: Eliminated heavy squats in the gym. Went from the ... Read more
Aortic Disease From The Patient’s Perspective, And Raindrops On Roses
I love that line, 'raindrops on roses,' as it triggers all sorts of images of the beauty all around us. As I start to ramp up my training for the Western Australia Ironman, and feel my strength and resilience returning, I reflect on how lucky I am. I didn't have a crippling aortic dissection, just a whopping abdominal aortic aneurysm. It changed my life, making me appreciate today and all the good things in life ... Read more
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