Hey folks,
Just wanted to say I've been away from the board for a while and it's good to be back and see everybody still plugging away with their ideas. No major "wheel" breakthroughs here, but I am working on a very interesting and promising motor + electronic circuit.
I had a nasty bout with a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) not long ago and have been out of the HP for about one week. Trust me, the BesslerWheel.com forum is a lot more fun (and less painful) than being hooked up to all those machines. The biggest drawback is that I'll have to take Warfarin for a long time. Aren't there some other list members out there eating rat poison too? Maybe we should start a "Coumadin club". :D
cw
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CW,
Welcome back!
You can add my name to your Warfarin list. I have been on it since October of 2002, and am told that I will continue for the rest of my breathing days! A dose a day keeps the rats away.
My barber refuse to give me a razor trim with a hair cut for fear of cutting me. You will soon learn that the slightest bump or scratch will leave rasberry bruises and if the skin is scratched you will bleed enough to gain sympathy over the smallest of abrasions.
Ralph
Welcome back!
You can add my name to your Warfarin list. I have been on it since October of 2002, and am told that I will continue for the rest of my breathing days! A dose a day keeps the rats away.
My barber refuse to give me a razor trim with a hair cut for fear of cutting me. You will soon learn that the slightest bump or scratch will leave rasberry bruises and if the skin is scratched you will bleed enough to gain sympathy over the smallest of abrasions.
Ralph
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Hiya Ralph and thanks! Yeah, I thought I remembered you being a Warfarin muncher. And you're right, I haven't seen a single rat since taking this stuff. :) The doc told me I might be taking it forever too, since I tested positive for an auto-immune disorder called "lupus anticoag" (means my blood clots too easily).
For you guys that sit in front of the computer a lot, read about "deep vein thrombosis", take it seriously and also take counter-measures to prevent it. You'll be glad you did.
A PE is not only deadly serious, but the pain (if you survive) is almost beyond words. Imagine having someone plunge a hunting knife between your ribs, then twisting the blade every time you inhale. And that's after you've been pumped full of morphine, Vicodin and who knows what else.
For you guys that sit in front of the computer a lot, read about "deep vein thrombosis", take it seriously and also take counter-measures to prevent it. You'll be glad you did.
A PE is not only deadly serious, but the pain (if you survive) is almost beyond words. Imagine having someone plunge a hunting knife between your ribs, then twisting the blade every time you inhale. And that's after you've been pumped full of morphine, Vicodin and who knows what else.
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I too am on rat poison. The biggest problem is having to go in regularly for checks. jim kelly
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James, the part I don't like is having to monitor my diet closely to keep the vitamin K intake consistent.
There's a ton of asparagus in the garden right now and normally I'd be gorging on it. This year the neighbors get most since I'd rather not have extra testing done and have to take extra Coumadin, then taper off after the asparagus is gone.
There's a ton of asparagus in the garden right now and normally I'd be gorging on it. This year the neighbors get most since I'd rather not have extra testing done and have to take extra Coumadin, then taper off after the asparagus is gone.
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One has to be very careful when using these various blood thinners.
A few months ago, Ariel Sharon, the then Prime Minister of Israel, suffered a mild stroke and was hopitalized for the night. He recovered fully and was able to leave the hospital the next day under his own power.
In evaluating his test results, some doctor decided that the stroke had to be due to a blot clot that had formed on the inside surfaces of a small hole he had in the septum of his heart. That is the wall that divides the ventricles of the heart and about 15% of all people have these holes for some reason. Anyway, his doctor decided that a blood clot that had formed on this hole must have broken loose and then traveled up into his brain.
The solution? Load him up with blood thinners to desolve any other clots in his body before they could break loose and cause problems.
About two weeks after he began taking the blood thinners, he suffered a major stroke. Only this time it was not due to a clot, but, rather, due to a blood vessel in his brain that started leaking and would not clot up!
Well, we all know what happened to him. He had something like three brain surgeries in an effort to stop the hemorrhages and is now, apparently, in a permanent coma.
I'm not going to give anybody else medical advice about maintaining their health. Obviously, if one has been started down the road of using synthetic blood thinners, then he had better adhere to the advice of whoever is prescribing them for him. As for myself, I prefer, whenever possible, to keep things as natural as possible. I help keep my blood from forming potentially dangerous clots by taking about 300 IU of vitamin E per day which I get in my vitamins and the oils in the various nuts and seeds I consume each day (I consume about an ounce of shelled walnut meat per day). I am also considering adding a salmon oil capsule (mercury free because the oil is distilled prior to encapsulation) per day to my diet which also tends to safely thin one's blood.
And, yes, it is a very good idea to take periodic breaks away from the keyboard to stand, stretch, and move around a bit. This becomes more important as one ages because human blood tends to thicken somewhat with age.
ken
A few months ago, Ariel Sharon, the then Prime Minister of Israel, suffered a mild stroke and was hopitalized for the night. He recovered fully and was able to leave the hospital the next day under his own power.
In evaluating his test results, some doctor decided that the stroke had to be due to a blot clot that had formed on the inside surfaces of a small hole he had in the septum of his heart. That is the wall that divides the ventricles of the heart and about 15% of all people have these holes for some reason. Anyway, his doctor decided that a blood clot that had formed on this hole must have broken loose and then traveled up into his brain.
The solution? Load him up with blood thinners to desolve any other clots in his body before they could break loose and cause problems.
About two weeks after he began taking the blood thinners, he suffered a major stroke. Only this time it was not due to a clot, but, rather, due to a blood vessel in his brain that started leaking and would not clot up!
Well, we all know what happened to him. He had something like three brain surgeries in an effort to stop the hemorrhages and is now, apparently, in a permanent coma.
I'm not going to give anybody else medical advice about maintaining their health. Obviously, if one has been started down the road of using synthetic blood thinners, then he had better adhere to the advice of whoever is prescribing them for him. As for myself, I prefer, whenever possible, to keep things as natural as possible. I help keep my blood from forming potentially dangerous clots by taking about 300 IU of vitamin E per day which I get in my vitamins and the oils in the various nuts and seeds I consume each day (I consume about an ounce of shelled walnut meat per day). I am also considering adding a salmon oil capsule (mercury free because the oil is distilled prior to encapsulation) per day to my diet which also tends to safely thin one's blood.
And, yes, it is a very good idea to take periodic breaks away from the keyboard to stand, stretch, and move around a bit. This becomes more important as one ages because human blood tends to thicken somewhat with age.
ken
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
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CW,
Well it seems as thought we are not alone, I knew that James Kelly was a member of your new found club.
He Like I go in for a a blood draw commonly called a PT. I go every twenty eight days. Then once every three months I have a fasting blood work up for cholesterol and all the goodies to numerous to name here.
After every three months test, I get a phone call from my Doctors nurse. Telling me to eat more dark greens. i find this conflicting with your statement about eating to much asparagus. My Doc claims I do not eat enough, he says I need to eat more. He highly recommends Broccoli.
As for Kens vitamin E, before my heart attack I was eating vitamin E by the hand full daily in an attempt to lower my blood pressure. It did not help. Vitamin E is also said to be good for erectile disfunction, it did not help me there either. Of course in my shape that is the least of my worry's.
As for James Kelly their are a lot of coincidentals in our two lives, we were born something like three days apart (different years) and have experienced the same health problems. We usually go in for our routine check within a couple of days of each other. We both seemed to be plagued with pulmonary edema attacks, leading to congestive heart problems at the same time. For this we both load up on Lasix.
Ralph
Well it seems as thought we are not alone, I knew that James Kelly was a member of your new found club.
He Like I go in for a a blood draw commonly called a PT. I go every twenty eight days. Then once every three months I have a fasting blood work up for cholesterol and all the goodies to numerous to name here.
After every three months test, I get a phone call from my Doctors nurse. Telling me to eat more dark greens. i find this conflicting with your statement about eating to much asparagus. My Doc claims I do not eat enough, he says I need to eat more. He highly recommends Broccoli.
As for Kens vitamin E, before my heart attack I was eating vitamin E by the hand full daily in an attempt to lower my blood pressure. It did not help. Vitamin E is also said to be good for erectile disfunction, it did not help me there either. Of course in my shape that is the least of my worry's.
As for James Kelly their are a lot of coincidentals in our two lives, we were born something like three days apart (different years) and have experienced the same health problems. We usually go in for our routine check within a couple of days of each other. We both seemed to be plagued with pulmonary edema attacks, leading to congestive heart problems at the same time. For this we both load up on Lasix.
Ralph
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Ralph,
I hope we don't have to "welcome" any new members into the club any time soon. It's too early to tell what my regular PT schedule will eventually be. Right now it's weekly. They did a ton of blood work on me in the HP; cholesterol + everything else looked good, so maybe it will be once per month? Don't know yet.
What the doc told me was to keep my intake of leafy greens and thus vitamin K, consistent. In other words, they're ok to eat (and should be eaten), just consume the same amount every day.
What I meant about the asparagus was that normally I don't eat the stuff (too expensive). But when it's free from the garden, I pig out while it's available. This unfortunately, is not a consistent dietary practice, so I can't be my usual gluttonous self this year. :)
I hope we don't have to "welcome" any new members into the club any time soon. It's too early to tell what my regular PT schedule will eventually be. Right now it's weekly. They did a ton of blood work on me in the HP; cholesterol + everything else looked good, so maybe it will be once per month? Don't know yet.
What the doc told me was to keep my intake of leafy greens and thus vitamin K, consistent. In other words, they're ok to eat (and should be eaten), just consume the same amount every day.
What I meant about the asparagus was that normally I don't eat the stuff (too expensive). But when it's free from the garden, I pig out while it's available. This unfortunately, is not a consistent dietary practice, so I can't be my usual gluttonous self this year. :)
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Ralph wrote:
Vitamin E's importance in the diet is that it is an excellent antioxidant. One of the reasons that chloresterol can become dangerous in the blood stream is that it can be attacked by free radicals (which enter the body from pollution, chemicals, cigarette smoke, prescription drugs, etc.) that will, after they attach themselves to the chloresterol molecule, actually convert it into a giant free radical.
Free radicals are very reactive and will try to attach themselves to the tissues of the body. The problem with chloresterol is that, after it is oxidized by an attacking free radical, the chloresterol molecule can then enter the lining of arteries (but not veins for some reason) and collect there to form gummy deposits or plaques. As these increase in size they can diminish blood flow to the heart muscle or other important bodily organs. Even more serious is if a plaque bursts and releases its gunk into the artery. This situation causes immediate clotting of the blood trying to flow through that artery and is known, I believe, as an "infarct".
Anyway, maintaining abundant levels of Vitamin E (as well as Vitamin C) in the blood stream can help prevent chloresterol from becoming oxidized and forming the plaques inside of the artery walls. This is how this vitamin really works to help prevent heart disease. And, of course, this vitamin is a mild anti-coagulant which will also prevent blood clots from forming in veins.
I started taking Vitamin E in the '60's and am very glad I did. At the time I had heard a radio talk show host named Dr. Carlton Frederick talking about the vitamin on his health show.
He cited a study that had been done on the vitamin in, I think, Finland. They selected a group of 5000 Fins between the ages of 25 and 55 whose only thing in common was that they took at least 200 IU of Vitamin E per day. The group was followed for 5 years at which time the study was concluded.
The researchers then went to an insurance company and asked their actuarial people to predict, using the best statistical data then available, how many of the 5000 test subjects were supposed to die from heart disease during that 5 year period. The insurance company calculated that something like 440 should have dropped dead.
How many of the Vitamin E users actually died of heart disease during that 5 year period? Only about 15 or so!
That's why I make sure I take my Vitamin E every day without fail.
ken
P.S. I recently found some material that says that there is evidence that using Vitamin E can protect a person's nerve cells against long term damage from heavy metal poisoning. Since I actually had mercury poisoning that I have only recently managed to recover from (but, still not 100%), maybe that Vitamin E I continued to take during the worst phase of my illness made the difference between life and death!
One has to be careful not to take too much Vitamin E. There have been reports of transitory hypertension following ingestion of a single dose of 800 IU or higher. I notice that some stores are actually selling bottles of capsules that each contain 2000 IU! That's way too much. I take two 100 IU capsules spaced about 12 hours apart each day and my multiple vitamin contains another 60 IU (I also break that multiple vitamin in half and consume each half 12 hours apart).As for Kens vitamin E, before my heart attack I was eating vitamin E by the hand full daily in an attempt to lower my blood pressure. It did not help. Vitamin E is also said to be good for erectile disfunction, it did not help me there either.
Vitamin E's importance in the diet is that it is an excellent antioxidant. One of the reasons that chloresterol can become dangerous in the blood stream is that it can be attacked by free radicals (which enter the body from pollution, chemicals, cigarette smoke, prescription drugs, etc.) that will, after they attach themselves to the chloresterol molecule, actually convert it into a giant free radical.
Free radicals are very reactive and will try to attach themselves to the tissues of the body. The problem with chloresterol is that, after it is oxidized by an attacking free radical, the chloresterol molecule can then enter the lining of arteries (but not veins for some reason) and collect there to form gummy deposits or plaques. As these increase in size they can diminish blood flow to the heart muscle or other important bodily organs. Even more serious is if a plaque bursts and releases its gunk into the artery. This situation causes immediate clotting of the blood trying to flow through that artery and is known, I believe, as an "infarct".
Anyway, maintaining abundant levels of Vitamin E (as well as Vitamin C) in the blood stream can help prevent chloresterol from becoming oxidized and forming the plaques inside of the artery walls. This is how this vitamin really works to help prevent heart disease. And, of course, this vitamin is a mild anti-coagulant which will also prevent blood clots from forming in veins.
I started taking Vitamin E in the '60's and am very glad I did. At the time I had heard a radio talk show host named Dr. Carlton Frederick talking about the vitamin on his health show.
He cited a study that had been done on the vitamin in, I think, Finland. They selected a group of 5000 Fins between the ages of 25 and 55 whose only thing in common was that they took at least 200 IU of Vitamin E per day. The group was followed for 5 years at which time the study was concluded.
The researchers then went to an insurance company and asked their actuarial people to predict, using the best statistical data then available, how many of the 5000 test subjects were supposed to die from heart disease during that 5 year period. The insurance company calculated that something like 440 should have dropped dead.
How many of the Vitamin E users actually died of heart disease during that 5 year period? Only about 15 or so!
That's why I make sure I take my Vitamin E every day without fail.
ken
P.S. I recently found some material that says that there is evidence that using Vitamin E can protect a person's nerve cells against long term damage from heavy metal poisoning. Since I actually had mercury poisoning that I have only recently managed to recover from (but, still not 100%), maybe that Vitamin E I continued to take during the worst phase of my illness made the difference between life and death!
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
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Hello All! I know it's been a while, but I have had much too much other life things to take care off! I can't say I am back just fully yet though. Have to read up on some of the posts etc. I have over 2000 messages to catch up on!
Nevertheless, I just wanted to say a quick hello, and I hope to be able to join the discussion soon again!
For now, good luck and good hunting towards the Bessler mystery!
Spiros.
Nevertheless, I just wanted to say a quick hello, and I hope to be able to join the discussion soon again!
For now, good luck and good hunting towards the Bessler mystery!
Spiros.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
