I have decided to change the direction of my blog and will be starting anew!
It's going to be a current daily thing in my life to help me and maybe others understand this thing we call life.
Any good story needs good background and this happens to also be my life.
Never retreat never surrender a broken man's blog:
I was a happy 34 year old recently married and weighing 230lbs and building the courage to get into those tiny Speedo's and get up on a stage and compete. It's been my dream since I was 12. Anyways so one day I'm coming in from the garage and started to cough, a lot. then all of a sudden it feels like I lost all of my balance, I can barely breathe, and it feels like some one is squeezing my heart. I sit down and I'm suddenly drenched in sweat, I raise my hands and I can't feel them though I'm looking at them!. My face then starts to tingle then both sides went numb.
I think to myself that I must be coming down with a cold. I decide once I can stand I'm going to take a shower. Once in the shower I start to feel better, I can breathe again, all the feelings are coming back.That was the first heart attack.
The second happened when I was working, I was crouched down and all of a sudden it feel like I good hit in the head and some one's squeezing my heart again! I stumbled to my car and called my wife. She suggested that I go to the hospital. Being the stubborn fool I am I drove the 15 miles to her work at witch time I handed her the keys , that's what scared her I think since I had NEVER handed her the keys before. We drove to the hospital and they stopped the second heart attack . I stayed over night then got sent home. I had all kinds of tests done but 2 were scary. The first is a stress test, it shows a picture of your heart's blood flow and such. Most people at my age heart's look like a circle, mine looked like a upside down U. Meaning 1/3 of my heart isn't receiving proper blood flow. The second was when they shoved a catheter up one of my arteries to look at my heart with x-rays and special ink. It showed multiple blockages in my capillaries surrounding my heart.
So every once in a while I'll drop some of my health stuff in here to give a full picture of my life. My blog is going to focus on the fight I currently wage everyday and hopefully motivation for some to take better care of themselves.
My current health goal is to get those Speedo's and get up on a stage in April or June next year. My current stats are as follows: 6'1, 215, body fat about 9%. 28 years of brutal training with the focus of being a bodybuilder. I have strived to keep a good balance top to bottom. Since I have some major medical problems in my legs I wont be competitive from the knee's down, but that's ok it's about me finally getting on a stage I'd like to win but this is ONE last dream! Everything else has been stolen by my health.The Dr.'s are looking at me like I'm crazy but that ok to. After I had reconstructive surgery on my shoulder I was told I would never be able to train safely again. Suck it Dr.'s I dumbbell military pressed 90'lbs for 7 reps today!
Never Retreat Never Surrender!!!
