Surprise!!!!!!!!!!Guest blogger, Guess Who????

Hello Sweet Friends,

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Did you see the heart up there, that is

because I had my sweet hubby write 

something about his heart problems.

I was gonna post it yesterday but the

post was already too long,  and I 

thought it was good to sort of give you

a heads up something special was

coming anyway!

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So Jimmy take it away............

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Nellie wanted for me to tell you my perspective on my

 unexpected trip down "heart repair lane". I would like to 

start  by telling you that I am a Christian and I love the

 Lord Jesus.  However, that doesn't exempt me from heart

 disease or any other disease if God chooses to develop my 

character with those life threatening events. Of course,

 I can choose to abuse God's temple, (my body), and pay

 the consequences. That is the case with my heart disease.

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There are really two things that I believed that developed

 an unhealthy life philosophy. 1) My health was my business

 and mine alone! 2) I believed that if I exercised on a regular

 basis I could eat what ever I wanted. You may already know 

I played racquetball many years right up to the time that

 I went in for heart bypass.

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Nellie was always a pretty healthy eater and she would 

warn me at times about my eating. I had friends and

 acquaintances that also remarked about my eating. I loved 

meats that were loaded with juicy fat, pasta dripping

 with alfredo sauce, double cheese burgers, Big Macs,

 doughnuts, etc.

 You get the picture!

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It is interesting how our personal sovereignty will clash

 with God's!

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Here is some of what God showed me during that time.

 1) Your life philosophy stinks! You can't expect to fill my 

temple with nothing but junk and expect great health!

 2) The idea that your health is only your business is an

 extremely selfish attitude. You have a family that is 

depending on you and everything you do affects others.

 3) You will need to be healthy to serve Me!

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After receiving some of God's wisdom and some heartfelt

 repenting of the stinking thinking, I resolved to change

 the way I eat, the way I exercise, and the way I serve my

 family and my Lord with a healthy lifestyle.

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With God's grace and healing power, I am on the mend.

 I also have the most fantastic nurse, Nellie. She is

 beautiful, graceful, and really smart. She has adopted

 the same lifestyle including the exercise and healthy eating

 which she pretty much did anyway. She has also become

 a real chef when it comes to producing

 both tasty and healthy food.

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By changing my diet I lost thirty pounds without even trying.

. This all resulted in greatly enhancing my stamina and

 causing me to feel better than I have in ten or fifteen years.

 I was borderline diabetic. That improved so much

 that they don't even test for it anymore!

Also just had an EKG that does no longer show

the heart attack I had over 4 yrs. ago.  The Dr.

said "that is very rare", and then he said "That just

never happens."! We believe that is divine

intervention from the Lord.  

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Heart disease is a sneaky disease like the slow clogging 

of pipes till one day they just close up! You credit your lack

 of stamina and poor health on just aging. As I would play

 racquetball and get in an intense volley, I would attribute

 the feeling of pressure on my chest to just getting old and

 not being a youngster anymore.

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So, my advice for any of you guys or girls out there,

 eat smart and always exercise and you will live longer

 and more importantly, you will enjoy the life

 you live much better!

Thanks for reading,  Jim

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Just thought you might like to hear from someone

who has been thru it!  I wish someone would have

told us a long time ago about how bad 

"hydrogenated & partially hydrogenated oils"

were,  and explain where it could end up

because maybe we could have prevented

this......... if someone would have said

to hubby if you eat these things with the

cholesterol problems you have,  you

may wind up having to have bypass

surgery for clogged arteries.

It is just possible, it might have woken him

up before it was too late.............

You can never know those things,

cause hindsight is always 20/20...

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But we do know we would love to prevent

someone else from going that route by

telling them,  and possibly alerting them.

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I have to say my kids eat better and

healthier than they did,  and they use

a lot of the products we do,  so 

hopefully,  if one of them has a genetic

predisposition to CAD maybe this

will prevent it.  I am truly a preventative

maintenance person!

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Hope you have a good evening

with family and/or friends,

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Blessings & Hugs,

Nellie