Matt. I hope it's all behind you now. You're coming to Hay, remember!

No more beers??

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Matt, you really do have a penchant for drama
Get well mate.

Its like watching a Gamera feature film

All the very best for your recovery Matt

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Hey Mate, I wish You a speedy recovery.

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" A Hundred Years From Now It will not Matter what my Bank Acount Was,
The Sort Of House I Lived in, Or The Kind Of Car I drove ... But The World May Be A Better Place
Because I was Once Important In The Life Of A Child"

Hey Matt, I hope you're not taking up another habbit here.

eah, I've been on 'that' table and it's freaky weird enough, but to be watching yourself have a heart attack, that would be really wierd and super freaky!

Speedy and un-eventful recovery mate.

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Ha , yeah , well,,, the first time (Byron) i was all crunched up & after die-ing a couple of times i really didn`t quite know what was happening as they were fitting the stent,,, but suddenly there was no more pain & i just layed back & said--> "Now Why didnt you give me that much morphine the first time???" , & of course they all broke up laughing ,,,seems i was the only one in the room that didn`t know i had the stent fitted.

But this time it was all meant to be peachy & simple & "in & out" in a day & all ever so casual & "we do 900 of these a year" & blah blah blah,,, but i had a funny feeling the 2 weeks before i went in that something was wrong, i know it may sound silly but i just knew crap was going to happen, i even said it to Marly a few times before the opp.

anyways, i`m on the table , they shove the wire into my groin & then the tube thingy in, add the die (pun intended) & away we go

i`m watching the screens, x-ray pulses & blood pulses it`s all quite amazing,,, pretty wild really , watching the indsides of my own heart while it`s happening still stuns me but suddenly there`s this big explosion thingy goin on at the top of the stent & i`m "Bang"!!! crunched up hard,,,, here we go again & i`m just gasping & crunching up,,, it`s all de-ja-vous & i`m just not happy Jan

so i`m trying to keep my eyes open to watch whats happening (& that`s not happeing very well,,, i`m barely getting glimpses) But the doc is just sooper cool, all casual telling the nurse to add 10mls of morf & so many mls of mtg stuff (anginine,,,opens arterys) asking me what the pain level is & i`m just wanting them to smash me over the head with a hammer at this point, but i tell him it`s an 8 cause it wasn`t quite as bad as the one in Byron but it`s climbing, so he says the puff of plaque is disapating now you should be feeling less pain by now,,,, But i`m not,,, it`s now way worse & getting worse-er,,, & i just can`t take this anymore, i`m getting flashbacks from Byron & then i feel that god awfull feeling again like all the blood is draining out of my body just like in byron & then boom i`m gooone

so it seems only like a split second & i`m back,,, but no rising above the table this time, nothing like that,,,, & i`m back, in pain, & the doc is appologising for that misshap & again asks the question "how bad`s the pain now ?, it should all be gone" ,,, but it isn`t & i`m now pretty determined to see what`s happening so i look up at the screen & i can see the path is clear at the top near the stent where the explosion was,,, but there`s a big kidney shaped chunk of it way down the bottom of that artery (maybe it`s 2 bits sort of joined together) anyways so i say to him, (actually attempting to point at it,,, like an idiot cause he`s not looking at me is he ? i`m such a dork sometimes) "hey there`s a big chunk of it down the bottom there"

anyways, he says -->"Oh!!!,,, so there is",,, now what can i say to that??? he`s the damn doc yeah? so here i am crunching up in pain & it`s getting worse & worse again, so he tells the nurse to add more morf & more Mtg stuff

then he says --. "i might have to open you up",,, & i mean, well,,, i`ve had a bloody gut full of this, i had a funny feeling this was going to happen & i`m just feeling like total crap, i really don`t need this at all,,, not one bit.

Then he says that my plaque is like """feta cheese, it`s normally so hard that sometimes you can`t get the wire through it",,,, "the wire!!!" , he says with a bit of exclamation,,,

suddenly he grabs the wire that the stent tube fits over & feeds it back through the stent & down to the plaque-chunk & starts poking away at it , effectively breaking it up,,, this man is just awesome,,, stayed cool as a cucumber & thought up a new trick

apparently it`s never happened before,,, my plaque is softish & has sifted "Through" the gauze of the stent,,,, he was baffled because my 100% blocked left anterior (the first one i had, only a couple of months ago) & most other people`s plaque, is/was hard as rock & nothing broke off or went soft,,, so it had him baffled.

After the opp he came around & we talked about the opp & the whys & wherefors & my diet that i`ve put myself on since the first heart attack (from looking up "the China Study" book referred to me by one of my customers Andrew Purcell) & we`ve come to the conclusion that the diet is already starting to work the plaque into a softish state ... & looking at the angiogram for another artery that i have, which "was" 40% blocked a couple of months ago,,, the current angiogram shows it`s now far less blocked.

the only problem now is (like i said earlier) that i have a decent sized chunk of crap sitting at the bottom of my heart that he couldn`t get to, it`s effectively blocking a small section & causing quite a bit of bruising & will take some time to disipate & even longer to heal that section of the heart (if it does at all)

so,,, no more eating animals ok??? Just fruits, salads, vegs, nuts, beans, wholemeal breads pastas & brown rice & stuff ok>>??? that`s all i`ve eaten for 2 months & that`s all i`m ever going to eat,,,well ,,,ok,,, that`s a lie,,, i am going to have a little bit of ham at Christmas

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

nice to see u have the atheltic fingers still
i found u a good xmas gift,
http://www.auto-tune-up-and-repair-opti ... moval.html

give it a go and maybe u can upgrade that ham to some bacon

ill check in soon dodge

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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damn...that was fun!"

Hey Dodge, good to hear from you bro. we`ll have to get together for beers & cigys before chrissy yeah

just kidding, i might look into that oil flush stuff tho, it`s not animal based product is it?

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Hey Matt forget the Ham or Bacon - have a nice bit of steak - Japaneses style



I'd heard they like it "marbled" but that is ridiculous ( was tasty but)

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My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

I once had a 6 egg omelette with Waygu Prosciutto , King Edward potato rostis with Truffle oil and covered in shavings of Buffalo Parmesan and 3 slices of grilled sourdough with a garlic and duckfat butter at $75 the most expensive Sunday brunch ever , coffee etc was extra of course

I,ll always have a craving for Waygu Prosciutto after that experience but




There was a French Food Festival at the Opera House and I got free entry through a friend but you had to pay for everything , no free samples except for Wattwiller water in glass bottles which is usually $$$$$


Now , where were we , ah yes , Matt on a Chinese Diet , drink your own urine and go for a 1km walk, Advocado and Cider Vinegar Milkshake for breakfast , sounds healthy indeed

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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "Damn...that was fun!"

its great to see you are on the mend take it easy m8 with all this rest and recoop i hope to see plenty of forum stuff cant put a good man down as they say heres wishing you and youre family a wonderfull xmas and a happy new year lang mae yer lum reek.......as they say in scotland

Hey it`s pretty funny with all the """usual""" stuff like high blood pressure & high cholesterol & over weight & diabetes & & & all the associated & related heart problem symptoms

ok,,, so how`s this lot grab you-->

my blood pressure is just slightly low , 110-75 -ish , always has been,,, my whole life,,,
& still is.

resting heart rate is approx 50-55... nearly always

cholesterol was 3.9 at time of heart attack (5.5 & above is supposedly not good)

I`m pretty damn fit, surfing, bike DH bike racing, A-grade squash, racing my buggy, not overweight at all (maybe 4 or 5 kgs), always been hyper-active, always will be

stress???,,, huh ,,, Me??? you have to be kidding

i "used to" smoke tho,,, i know i`m a naughty naughty boy,,, but i don`t do it any more

& my mum died from this same blood disorder,,, or rather more accurately, she died from a brain bleed caused by the blood thinning drugs they told her to take meant to combat this blood disorder.

there are many things that most of the usual old-age research has just not "solved",,, sooo many thing we don`t really know & understand,,, no one "Knows" the right answers for every individual,,,, but things like the "good & bad" cholesterol thing is a bit of a confusion... very miss-understood atm,,, not all the docs have it right just yet

In my own opinion---> the "so-called" bad cholesterol is actually needed to be there as it helps absorb quite a lot of the bad crap & toxins in your blood,,, then the good cholesterol helps get rid of the bad (in a sense , so don`t go picking on my vague description ok) however,,, by "artificially" reducing the bad cholesterol using drugs, you are actually doing yourself an injustice,,, the bad cholesterol really isn`t that bad after all,,, but go ask your GP & i`m sure they will tell you i`m wrong

There`s heaps more to learn yet tho,,, i`m not doing anything extream,,, just dropping out a few things that i used to eat, & adding in a few i didnt`t.

Vitamin C is an "EXTREMELY" important item in your diet,,, my mum always said that... BUT!!!--> gathered from natural food sources (fruits/vegs) is best,,, most pills (any pill type drugs really) are taxing on the liver & kidneys & not that great for the stomach lining either

It`s funny all this stuff hey? i really havn`t got a clue,,, i just fix minis & race cars & surf,,, what do i know about nutrition & heart disease???

but what i do know is that the docs, the dietitians & nutritionists havn`t really got a clue either
they`re all just winging it ... resting on the back of the '"so-called" latest Intel,,,
that Intel normally coming from the pharmaceutical companys Funny that hey?

i just don`t really want to feel that god-awfull feeling of the blood-flow stopping ever again... the pain i can take, (sort-of,,,i`m getting used to it now ) but that feeling just before you die,,,well,,, that`s really something else!!!!

i`d expect it would be a bit like jumping out of an aeroplane without a parashoot,,, you just know you`re about to die.... & of course you do.

there`s definately WAY WAY more to this stuff than just smoking & hereditary-ness tho,,, when a young 19 year old footballer can drop dead while training even before he hit the ground... same artery, same blockage,,, never smoked, no familly history of it... & there are many many more cases just like it all over the world.

So,,, what are we doing now-days that we (as a species) wern`t doing 500million years ago when we weren`t die-ing from heart disease? is it simply the polution ??? or the food we`re now eating??? or a concoction of both???

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Also cayenne pepper....plenty of it will substantially reduce plaque in the arteries and help repair the heart.
A good old friend of mine was due to have a triple bypass but the surgeon
wouldn't do it because his risk of dying on the table was too high..they gave him 6-12 months to live. One of his friends said don't worry about it just get into the cayenne pepper, so he did. He gradually reduced his medication over 12 months.
Fifteen years later at the age of 85 he is about to get a knee replacement. Not bad for an old guy that was meant to be dead long ago.

All that time ago the dinosaurs were chomping people up before they could have a heart attack

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1971 Mini K x 2
1972 Clubman GT