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On August 6, 2010, I was homeAneuryism patient with fish I had no other symptoms of any kind — no abdominal pain, no indication of anything seriously wrong. I felt I was very healthy and had kept my records of blood pressure, cholesterol, PSA, etc., continually up to date through periodic visits to my doctors at Palo Alto Medical Foundation. I also was in good shape, not overweight, as I weighed 185 pounds at 6 feet, 2 inches. I didn’t smoke or drink much alcohol.

I have my own consulting practice. (I am a graduate civil engineer and a professional mechanical engineer, and hold a real estate broker’s license and an inactive general contractor’s license). I was on the phone with an architect about a project when I began to faint. I hung up the phone and thought if I could just lie down this would pass and I would be fine.

I started down the stairs to our bedroom and on the way collapsed onto the first floor. I managed to crawl to my bedroom and get to the phone. Thankfully it was there and fully charged! I called 911 and told the operator I was dying. The paramedics arrived quickly. Luckily, my doors were unlocked and our two giant schnauzers were in Aptos with my wife.

The 911 operator had attempted to engage me in conversation, but by this time I was lapsing into unconsciousness. When the paramedics arrived, they lifted me onto a gurney and moved me to the ambulance. The last thing I recall was being in the ambulance on the way to El Camino Hospital, where I was briefly conscious. I do not remember anything else until approximately four days later when I awoke in intensive care and saw my wife in the room.

It turns out I had a ruptured aneurysm! Dr. Rob Mitchell, vascular surgeon at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, performed my surgery. I was told the operation took more than six hours, and my blood pressure dropped to zero twice. In spite of all that, Dr. Mitchell and the team of nurses kept going.

Dr. Mitchell came out to speak to my wife and four children, three of whom are doctors. He informed them that I had had a 50 percent chance of making it alive to the hospital, a 50 percent chance of surviving the operation, which it looked like I had done, and a 50 percent chance of surviving through intensive care.

The El Camino staff was extremely helpful from the time I was admitted until I was discharged some eight days later. They assisted my wife at every step of my stay, much of which I did not know until I was recovered. They escorted her to the waiting room, they arranged for her and my older daughter, an OB/GYN, to spend the nights with me while I was unconscious and in a coma.

I was transferred to telemetry (a care unit where patients get specialized cardiac care and monitoring) for the next four days and was then assisted to get out of bed, walk and even do light exercises. I was in such a mental fog that I do not remember many names of the nurses who were helping me, but it was a steady stream of staff day and night, all very pleasant and very professional, continually checking my vital signs, including my blood pressure and weight, which had dropped to 160 pounds!

I can say that I was unbelievably fortunate in every aspect from the 911 call, the rapid arrival of the paramedics, the rapid transportation to El Camino, the constant contact with my wife, the care and treatment of my family and my medical treatment, and the surgical skill of Dr. Rob Mitchell to my recovery in El Camino Hospital.

It has taken me almost a year plus three more visits to the hospital to fully recover and I consider myself very, very lucky, including living in the Bay Area to receive such outstanding medical treatment. My wife and our family are very appreciative of the personal, kind care given to them by El Camino Hospital and we have said many times how wonderful the hospital was to me and to them. in my upstairs office when I experienced a sudden and dramatic fainting spell

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I would love to be brave enough to start the MM method and a real recovery. I'm not afraid of gaining until I'm a whale, but I do feel terrified of my natural weight set point as I know its kinda high. I used to be bmi 25 before ed. How can I learn to accept my body if I've hated it and considered myself fat even when I was healthy? Now I'm at a normal weight and still missing my period (gone almost 2 years). How do I take the next step in recovery? I love exercise and don't want to stop...

First of all, a bmi of 25 is not high. In the country I live in it is the average bmi, while in the US it is 27. You say you are not afraid of gaining until you are a ”whale”, yet you fear bmi 25. Bmi 25 is not ”whale”, nor is it particularily high. See Nora in this post. Or the thriatlete in this post. Or this woman. Or this bmi 26.6 woman. If you saw these women on the street, you would have thought of them as normal, healthy women. Bmi is a crappy tool that the dieting industry take advantage of. Quoting Øygunn;So what worked for me? That my therapist consequently challenged my ED-thoughts. He spent many, many appointments asking me questions like:

- So WHY exactly are you so afraid of gaining weight? What will it do to you? (My answer: “I WILL BECOME A FAILURE AND HATE MYSELF”. That is, in fact, NOT an answer, it’s just an excuse to not work on my confidence!)- So WHY exactly are you convinced that you will become a failure and hate yourself? (My answer: “BECAUSE MY HIPS PRE-ED HAD THIS AND THAT SHAPE THAT I DIDN’T LIKE”. That, too, is NOT an answer, it’s just an excuse to not work on my confidence!)- So WHY exactly is it so important for you to be skinny? (My answer: “I DON’T KNOW…”)

So. Most of the questions I received, I answered with ”I don’t know”, “Because that’s just how it is”, and so on. The thing is, I would NEVER accept bad (non-)answers like this from anyone else.Imagine that a politician is asked “Why do you engage so much in taxes?” and the politician answers “I don’t know, that’s just how it IS!” - how the hell could anyone take her/him seriously?I didn’t like the way I had no arguments for anything I did. And I started demanding actual answers from myself. So what happened? I had no actual answers to any of the important questions. I had no idea why I “needed” to be skinny, I had no idea why I “couldn’t” gain weight, and I had no idea why my previous, natural hips automatically “turned me into failure”.But a little note in the end. Some gets weight restored on a BMI lower than pre-ED, if they overshot pre-ED. I was one of them. Reasons explained here. Also check out the set point tag.It is important to point out that an eating disorder will not make you feel thinner than becoming weight restored. I never felt as fat as when I was underweight, and I never felt as normal as now that I am at a normal weight.Not having your period is very severe. If being thin is so important for you that you are willing to sacrifice your fertility and bones for it, that is at the end of the day your choice, but you WILL regret it at your deathbed. 2 years without your period will very likely mean you have osteopenia, and perhaps osteoporosis.Same goes with exercise - if you love it so much that you are willing to risk your life for it, it is also at the end of the day your choice, but you WILL regret it at your deathbed. Your potentially early deathbed. Maybe you dont end up in deathbed, maybe you die suddenly. You might be normal weight and see your exercise habits as healthy, but they are dangerous and can kill you. A sad example of this is the death of Krista Phelps. I can not save you. You save yourself. I can guide you and support you, but you have to do the job. You can do that job. You will not regret it.- Amalie

#set point #not overweight #bmi sucks #body image #exercise

According to my online health class we inherit 70% of our body weight from our parents. Which means that some of use are just naturally bigger than others. It also means that we can only lose so much weight. Take that gym class! I can only lose so much weight! Some people are fitter than me for a reason! Now I feel a bit better about myself. See, not my fault I'm not the fittest.

#not an athlete #Not overweight #Average rules