FitOldDog, A Motivational Speaker? It's story-telling, really, and I enjoy that! You can follow my podcasts via this link! Patient to patient motivation is critical! We vascular disease patients meet on Facebook, largely by chance! Rarely does the medical profession bring us together! I do have one great medical cheerleader, Tara, my second aortic surgeon! We met the first time on Twitter, and ... Read more
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Safe Exercise With A Stent Using FitOldDog’s Training Wheel
Are You Stuck In A Rut? Safe Exercise With A Stent? How? Get your wheels turning again with FitOldDog! Why a wheel? Because wheels work! Life goes in cycles. So does healthy exercise! Life has been using wheels effectively for over 2,500,000,000 years! The Stent Blog says, on exercise with a heart stent: "...really depends on you and what you did physically before your stent." I agree, but there's ... Read more
Reward Vascular Surgery Magic, Plus Thoughts On Right Heart Insufficiency!
Modern vascular surgery is like magic! Saved my life, and my love of Ironman, twice! Live Life To The Full! What's the point of fixing your heart, if you don't use it to the full? Vascular surgery reminds me of bike repair, and a comment by Victor Jimenez, of Bicycle Lab. Victor, who built my triathlon bikes, said one day, "Kevin, I love it when you guys come in, because you destroy your bikes. You ride them ... Read more
Do Stuff, To Stay Young At Heart! Aneurysm Or No Aneurysm!
FitOldDog's Philosophy Aortic Aneurysm Or Not Do Stuff! Do stuff, to stay young at heart! It's too easy to sit around! This weekend, I'm sagging for a group of 10 people hiking a small section of the Appalachian Trail, in Virginia. My job? To drive from campsite to campsite, in our old Chevy truck (Yep, we haven't let it go yet!), and provide a hot dinner as they come off of the trail. Breakfast too, ... Read more
When Your Body, Heart Or Mind (Forget Mind Mr. Spock) Go Through Hell, Remember The Therapeutic Value Of Nostalgia Food
Nostalgia: "A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations." by Google Hi folks, welcome to another day on this lovely planet.. Ah! The good old days, or good old romance, or good old country, or good old car, or good old food! Yes! Nostalgia is a powerful, but a potentially crippling or alternatively potentially curative tool, ... Read more
Do You Make Key Decisions In Your Life (e.g. Ironman no Ironman?) With Your Head Or Your Heart?
"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion; that it may sing; And let it ... Read more
Of Observing And Being Observed Whilst Dealing With Fear As An Aging Stented Endurance Athlete And The Critical Nature Of Context
"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas." Khalil Gibran, The Prophet. Hi folks! Thanks for stopping by! This post is about the critical roles of observation as self-awareness and your response to fear during health challenges. Don't ... Read more
FitOldDog Is Not A Great Athlete But A Persistent One So Attitude Is More Important Than Genes For His Marathons
Hi folks! Thanks for stopping by! As you age you need to become increasingly aware of what is going on within and around your body if you want to stay in the game of life for as long as you can. This post was prompted by an article forwarded to me by my sister in Spain, and it's interesting in the nature of its implied underlying assumptions about what motivates most people to undertake marathons. I often ... Read more
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