Troubles of late -- my family is under attack

I am in the Ontario province, CDSmith.
I wish all the best from the guy that wants to improve health.

Don't worry, things go in threes. You'll be run over by a bus instead.

Oh man thats not good.

Hoping everyone has a speedy recovery.

sorry to hear that CD...

sorry to hear

It sounds as if heart problems may a genetic issue in your family...when was your last physical?

It is, but mostly on my dad's side. All of these relatives are on my mom's side, and that's a pretty huge family -- 12 kids total, all but one married with kids, many of their kids have kids. There are 6 generations in some of the families. Last count was over 200 family members and growing. So there are bound to be a few with heart troubles in the mix.

But this I think may be more of a lifestyle thing. The one cousin in BC was a heavy drinker. The cousin with the anyeurism has been a heavy smoker for many years and I don't think he's maintained a healthy diet either.

Just the one uncle is mystery to me, as he's never been a smoker, he's not much of a drinker, he's lived an outdoorsy life for ALL of his life thus far, and his diet I'd say is very much on the healthy side, at least for the most part. He does love his comfort food.

I wouldn't chalk this up to anything hereditary.

On my dad's side however, he had 8 brothers and one sister, all of whom are gone now. Each of his brother's AND my grandfather on that side all died of heart complications. My dad is the only exception, and he's always done a lot of walking and excersizing every day and maintained a very healthy diet... largely I think due to the fact he was well aware of his family history.

Me I've always taken the cue from my dad and have also lived an active healthy life with a good diet, have played lots of sports and such over the years. I also get checked out at the doc's regularly (except of late, haven't been in a while) and I've always shown well in all tests, good BP, heartrate, etc. Of course none of that is ever an absolute guarantee that one won't experience heart problems, you just do as much as you can and pretty much hope for the best.

So far so good here though.

Sorry to hear it CD, hope they all recover nicely.

Well, the one cousin in BC won't be recovering at all, because as I said he died pretty much instantly. I suppose the upside there is that he didn't suffer at all, and he died doing what he loved, being around horses all his life.

But my other cousin has been discharged as of yesterday and should be back home in Ontario by now.

My uncle is recovering nicely as well, and he should be on his way home soon too. I'm sure he's giving the nurses hell in that hospital in Hamilton, he's a real charmer that one.

Thanks for all the well wishes.