After the Angioplasty

Now that I have a heart stent, I will have to take medicine for the rest of my life and will also have to visit a cardiologist for the rest of my life, almost like a car needing a tune-up, the doctor will have to see how your hardware is holding up.  https://www.cardiovascular.abbott/us/en/hcp/products/percutaneous-coronary-intervention/xience-sierra-coronary-stent-system.html In the week following a percutaneous coronary intervention, having a stent placed into the Left Descending Coronary artery of my heart, I visited the doctor for a follow-up appointment.  The visit included a blood and urine analysis, so I didn't take the medicine for that morning, since I am used to fasting, consuming only water before any kind of blood or urine test.  When I told my doctor that I did that, he bounced out of his chair, "You have to take your medicine!"  He thought that I was under the impression that medicine was too much hassle and decided not to take it.  I kind o...

If you have a stent in your heart, I am going to refer to you as an Angioplast.  It isn't a real word, but there is no succinct word to describe this condition, so this is easiest, and fun as well.  I know that heart attacks, medicasial infarction, and stents are not a joke, but you're an Angioplast, like it or not, and life still has a lot of enjoyment for you. Now that you have a heart condition you will have to avoid booze, fatty foods, and salty foods.  We can't do anything about our genetics, but there is a lot that must be done.   We have to avoid fatty food to keep LDL levels down.  LDL is most often called the bad fat, usually in quotation marks. LDL, Low-Density Lipoproteins, are the same cholesterol as HDL, High-Density Lipoproteins.  THe only difference is the case that surrounds the cholesterol.  The simple explanation is that LDL leaves cholesterol behind as the travel, which clogs arteries.           ...