rgrowden wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:58 am My brother, age 64, just had triple bypass surgery for the same condition. He was told it was not due to diet, obesity, or family history. First he knew there was a problem was when he suffered a stroke. Not preventable. When I heard, I had Raffles do a cholesterol screening. Mine is normal.

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:30 pm

YaTingPom wrote:

rgrowden wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:58 am My brother, age 64, just had triple bypass surgery for the same condition. He was told it was not due to diet, obesity, or family history. First he knew there was a problem was when he suffered a stroke. Not preventable. When I heard, I had Raffles do a cholesterol screening. Mine is normal.

Does your family have a history of heart attacks or issues with the heart?

Nope. Purely job stress. I had fun and interesting job close to home. Then got cast out to far away land and told to do the same job with impossible expectations and next to nothing to do the job with. There to be blamed and scapegoated. And ground to dust working impossible hours.

Knew that it would kill me a lot sooner and my time was running out fast. Bought a huge insurance policy and a house to cover missus when that happened.

Got all sorts of serious medical issues by now.

The severe heart disease, and resulting surgery, has made me take a huge step back and re-evaluate my life.

I won’t have close to enough to retire (10-15x salary) by age 80, but I will be alive to enjoy my time, possibly in Cambodia and elsewhere where it’s cheaper to live.

YaTingPom wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 7:32 am

rgrowden wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:58 am My brother, age 64, just had triple bypass surgery for the same condition. He was told it was not due to diet, obesity, or family history. First he knew there was a problem was when he suffered a stroke. Not preventable. When I heard, I had Raffles do a cholesterol screening. Mine is normal.

Does your family have a history of heart attacks or issues with the heart?

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 10:30 pm

YaTingPom wrote:

rgrowden wrote: ↑Thu Nov 02, 2023 6:58 am My brother, age 64, just had triple bypass surgery for the same condition. He was told it was not due to diet, obesity, or family history. First he knew there was a problem was when he suffered a stroke. Not preventable. When I heard, I had Raffles do a cholesterol screening. Mine is normal.

Does your family have a history of heart attacks or issues with the heart?

Nope. Purely job stress. I had fun and interesting job close to home. Then got cast out to far away land and told to do the same job with impossible expectations and next to nothing to do the job with. There to be blamed and scapegoated. And ground to dust working impossible hours.

Knew that it would kill me a lot sooner and my time was running out fast. Bought a huge insurance policy and a house to cover missus when that happened.

Got all sorts of serious medical issues by now.

The severe heart disease, and resulting surgery, has made me take a huge step back and re-evaluate my life.

I won’t have close to enough to retire (10-15x salary) by age 80, but I will be alive to enjoy my time, possibly in Cambodia and elsewhere where it’s cheaper to live.