restoration tip for yourself

[Joseph T.]

Re: restoration tip for yourself

as i (1)age, (2) use defatting solvents(lacquer thinners), and(3) winter"s lower humidity ensues, my skin becomes dry and cracks, my poor pinkies develope fissures( deep cracks on the finger tips) and i'm not a happy camper. thought i'd pass along a tip to deal with the fissures. wash them puppies, let them dry, then apply one drop of Super Glu to each fissure. repeat daily and the fissure will heal in 1/10th the time it'd take otherwise. oh yeah , make sure ya let the Super Glu dry thoroughly before going to the urinal. mikie

The incision from my ankle to my knee to remove the vein used to repair my heart was glued. not stitched.

Amazing stuff!

Joe

[Stuart F.]

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My leg scar is still obvious, but my chest line is barely visable. I don't recall what was used back then (1993), but my surgeon was an artist. His incision was a perfectly straight line which I distorted with 26 years of age and extra weight. I still recall when the pulled out my jumper wires. You could feel them move their entire length. I suggested they leave them in in case I needed to jump start myself when no one else was around. I wonder how a 12 volt car battery would do.

Stu Fox

[Clem Z.]

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My leg scar is still obvious, but my chest line is barely visable. I don't recall what was used back then (1993), but my surgeon was an artist. His incision was a perfectly straight line which I distorted with 26 years of age and extra weight. I still recall when the pulled out my jumper wires. You could feel them move their entire length. I suggested they leave them in in case I needed to jump start myself when no one else was around. I wonder how a 12 volt car battery would do.

Stu Fox

you are lucky on your chest scar as they usally have the trainee do the opening and closing. mrs clem has them both vertical and horizontal as the first time she received a heart valve the went in between her ribs. the last 2 they opened her down the front. using neosporin on the incision will help make them less noticeable as #1 son had 14 stitches in his fore head when he was about 3 years old and the surgeon told us to use it every day and now you can not find the scar

[Stewart A.]

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Stu was your bad heart due to poor diet or family tradition of high cholesterol.
Stewy

[Mike M.]

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I don't trust the medical institute. Drug companies make obscene money and I would doubt if there glue is any different to Chinese Super Glue. It's all about money with drug companies. I will never ever trust a doctor they are taught by these drug companies end of story. Just ask who paid for there last holiday. Stewy

i agree the medical grade super glue, at about $35 per tube, is identical to the walmart super glue at about $1. i also agree that some of the drug companies are ripping patients off. i'm sorry to hear you distrust all physcians--perhaps your attitude will change as you enter your golden years and you need the help of the medical community. mike

[Stuart F.]

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Stewy;

My condition was mostly hereditary, although I probably didn't do it much good eating burgers and ice cream in my youth. Apparently, I started growing small collateral arteries already in my 20's as my main arteries were already starting to close down. Usually, you don't see these until your 70's. When I had my operation they were astounded at the extensive network I already had at age 53. That's when they told me I probably had the collaterals already at a young age, which explained to me why I would get so exhausted when playing football in my teens or running in the military in my 20's. In my 50's then, these collaterals were starting to fail me. However, my propensity to grow them saved me again back in 2005. I had a treadmill test here in the Florida outback and I wasn't getting my heart rate up fast enough for them, so they injected me with 1 cc of atropine. My heart rate went from 97 bpm to 147 bpm in an instant, and one of my grafts shut down. I began having symptoms like back in 93 along with a little defib and palpetations. Within a few days these symptoms abaited due to my system once again growing collateral arteries to back feed the area behind my heart where the graft had shut down. My cardiologist calls me superman. Even the bad medical care here in Florida can't kill me!

Hope I have not bored you with all this medical stuff - back to Vettes!

Stu Fox

[Stewart A.]

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I shouldn't of been so harsh on the "Medical" field. Yes people remind my of the good they do every now and again.
My good mate was working on a new drug that eats away fat. The company thought they had a ripper on there hands and when in early stages they had a few people die trialing them. The drug company kept pushing for the drug to be on the market even thou the drug had severe side affects. Eventually it was released and taken off the market one year later due to more deaths !! Once again greed prevailing over morals.
Stewy

[Clem Z.]

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Stewy;

My condition was mostly hereditary, although I probably didn't do it much good eating burgers and ice cream in my youth. Apparently, I started growing small collateral arteries already in my 20's as my main arteries were already starting to close down. Usually, you don't see these until your 70's. When I had my operation they were astounded at the extensive network I already had at age 53. That's when they told me I probably had the collaterals already at a young age, which explained to me why I would get so exhausted when playing football in my teens or running in the military in my 20's. In my 50's then, these collaterals were starting to fail me. However, my propensity to grow them saved me again back in 2005. I had a treadmill test here in the Florida outback and I wasn't getting my heart rate up fast enough for them, so they injected me with 1 cc of atropine. My heart rate went from 97 bpm to 147 bpm in an instant, and one of my grafts shut down. I began having symptoms like back in 93 along with a little defib and palpetations. Within a few days these symptoms abaited due to my system once again growing collateral arteries to back feed the area behind my heart where the graft had shut down. My cardiologist calls me superman. Even the bad medical care here in Florida can't kill me!

Hope I have not bored you with all this medical stuff - back to Vettes!

Stu Fox

mrs clem was 33 when she had her first open heart. she had rheumatic fever 3 times as a kid and it did in her heart valves