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Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: SHL Date: August 30, 2019, 8:23 pm
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But I’m back.
I went through all kinds of h*ll the last 2 weeks with health
issues. But everything turned out okay, so now I can relax.
I turned out having gallstones and a fatty liver (probably from
too many decades of drinking too much beer). Yeah, I learned you
can’t treat you body like a garbage dump for 40 years and expect
to come out smelling like a rose.
I got this fatty liver, which 35% of the population has anyway,
and probably the gallstones from 40 years of too much beer and
whatever else I guzzled down. I don’t even want to think about
it it was so bad. I doubt Neal or Jerry have any kind of health
issues like fatty liver and gallstones. I didn’t exactly live
like a saint my whole life, like they probably did. When I look
back on how much beer I drank in my life, it’s kind of amazing
I’m still around. In 40 years I probably drank enough beer to
fill the Atlantic Ocean. Or like those big silos full of beer
you see in Germany that are 50 feet high? I probably went
through about 7 or 8 of them in my life. I knew it was time to
quit drinking 3 years ago so I just stopped, except I’ll have a
glass of wine at my sister’s Christmas party or something, or
one beer in a day now in Germany.
Three years ago was when I first had an elevated liver enzyme
level (but it went down to normal when I stopped drinking and
went on mineral water). Then I had this gallstone attack a few
weeks ago because my diet has been so bad. Too many pork
sausages in Germany, and a little beer over there, but nothing
like in my heyday. But since I’ve been back I’m trying for more
of the Mediterranean diet, which is healthier.
I’m amazed I only have fatty liver since many people have that
who don’t drink alcohol at all. They get too much fat in their
diets and end up with fatty liver at 30.
I think my sister (who used to drink way too much but quit 5
years ago) and I are lucky to have my dad’s Irish liver, because
he never had any trouble with it, amazingly, and if anyone every
asked me how much he used to drink, I’d answer them with “how
deep is the ocean?”
So, this heavy drinking business is definitely hereditary. And
it is for the birds. So if you are young, go easy on it.
I read a great introduction to a book once, which was so true.
It said, “When the body is young it’s like a never tiring
workhorse. It can take almost any sort of abuse you can throw at
it and it just keeps bouncing back. But, it never forgets nor
forgives that abuse.”
So true.
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: NealC Date: August 31, 2019, 12:27 am
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The liver is evil and deserves to be punished.
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: SHL Date: August 31, 2019, 2:42 am
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[quote author=NealC link=topic=1348.msg19295#msg19295
date=1567229240]
The liver is evil and deserves to be punished.
[/quote]
Yeah, well foie gras (fatty goose or duck liver) is a delicacy
in France. It’s illegal to do this in some places (California
is the only State where it is illegal in the US, but it is also
illegal in the City of Chicago )and some European countries have
made it illegal (for example, Germany, the UK and others, but it
is still legal in Spain, France and Portugal), but they take
this big tube and force feed the poor goose or duck all this
fatty food so its liver gets loaded up with fat. Then when the
goose gets slaughtered, they takes its liver and they make foie
gras out of it. (The goose or duck liver gets so big they can
barely breath sometimes). It supposedly tastes delicious on
crackers (the poor gooses and duckies).
I heard this liver doc on YouTube say, “so, unless you want your
liver to wind up on someone’s cracker someday, loose that weight
and give up that fatty diet!”
The guy was quit a character for a gastroenterologist.
No, I sure didn’t live like a saint in my younger years (wish I
had). Too much partying, etc.
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: Nikola Date: August 31, 2019, 6:20 am
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Glad to hear you're on the mend, Steven. You don't strike me as
a beer drinker.
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: SHL Date: August 31, 2019, 9:39 am
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[quote author=Nikola link=topic=1348.msg19297#msg19297
date=1567250409]
Glad to hear you're on the mend, Steven. You don't strike me as
a beer drinker.
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Hi Nikola,
Thanks for the welcome back. I’m sorry to see things are a
little quieter than I expected.
I love beer but, like I said, I’m not suppose to drink anything
because of my fatty liver. But when I’m in Germany I love the
beer there so much I always have one or two. Not necessarily
everyday now, but back in my youth.....oh my God. I could pack
away quite a bit, and did everyday. And whatever that Czech
beer is, I loved that one too, Pilzen or something, you know,
just a German Pils.
And I didn't limit myself to beer either, especially in the US
since I don’t like American beer that much, only the German and
Czech imports. And British and Irish imports. So, wine and the
hard stuff was my substitute.
I never smoked, so I got that going for me. I tried a Marlboro
red cigarette once at age 16. I took two puffs off it and
thought it tasted so BAD, like HORRIBLE, that I put the
cigarette out and never touched another one the rest of my life.
It was so pungent. So strong. Wow. I couldn’t understand how
people could smoke those things.
And that was 45 years ago, and two little puffs. I’m glad for
never starting that habit. My younger sister, the one who had to
give up drinking, smokes. But she hides it and goes outside to
smoke. She needs to give that one up too. She’s 58.
Maybe I’ll email Jerry. He wrote to me asking if I had left the
board 10 days ago and I said no, I was just having health issues
I had to deal with (doctors, multiple blood tests, a chest x-ray
and a liver and gallbladder ultrasound). It took a while but I
finally got over it.
I’m sure all is okay with you, or I certainly hope so (you’re
young, so that’s worth its weight in gold). And I’m feeling a
lot better after that gallstone attack. (It’s horrible having
gallstones.)It takes a while if it’s a bad gallstone attack, but
after awhile you feel better and your body recovers from it.
I should have my gallbladder just taken out and that would solve
the problem the doctors said. Maybe in a few years or if I have
recurring attacks.
Thanks again.
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: Nikola Date: August 31, 2019, 4:31 pm
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I think you're talking about Pilsner Urquell, that's our best
beer. Pils or Pilsner as a type of beer originates from Pilsen,
a Czech city. So I always found the term "German Pilsner" a bit
funny. And don't get me started on Budweiser, there have been
over 170 court cases over the trademark.
I find Marlboros gross. I don't think I would have started
smoking if I'd tried those and nothing else. I buy tobacco and
roll my own cigarettes. My mum smokes secretly like your sister
but everyone knows. I've met quite a few women like this. I
think most of them really underestimate people's sense of smell.
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: SHL Date: August 31, 2019, 5:10 pm
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[quote author=Nikola link=topic=1348.msg19301#msg19301
date=1567287080]
I think you're talking about Pilsner Urquell, that's our best
beer. Pils or Pilsner as a type of beer originates from Pilsen,
a Czech city. So I always found the term "German Pilsner" a bit
funny. And don't get me started on Budweiser, there have been
over 170 court cases over the trademark.
I find Marlboros gross. I don't think I would have started
smoking if I'd tried those and nothing else. I buy tobacco and
roll my own cigarettes. My mum smokes secretly like your sister
but everyone knows. I've met quite a few women like this. I
think most of them really underestimate people's sense of smell.
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Yes, it is the Pilsner Urquell I was thinking of. That’s a great
one. That’s just the type of beer I like.
And I did think Pilsen was a Czech city for some reason as well.
It’s possibly the same in the Czech Republic, but in Germany
just about every town or village of any size has its own local
brand of beer (like where I like to go, in Ostfriesland, Jever,
their biggest business is their beer plant making Jever Beer).
It seems like every region or city of any size has its local
brewery.
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: Chizuko hanji Date: September 8, 2019, 11:00 am
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SHL
[quote]I turned out having gallstones and a fatty liver
(probably from too many decades of drinking too much beer).
Yeah, I learned you can’t treat your body like a garbage dump
for 40 years and expect to come out smelling like a rose.
I got this fatty liver, which 35% of the population has anyway,
and probably the gallstones from 40 years of too much beer and
whatever else I guzzled down.[/quote]
I must not laugh...but I did. I think you wrote it seriously,
but somehow, it is funny as usual. Is it only me who laughed?
anway, SHL's show has started! Welcome back!
And I hope other members will come back, too! Where are you,
ladies? Don't worry, Big monsters have got to know how to be
gentlemen. They never bite you. Right, everyone?
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Re: Sorry for my temporary departure from the board....
By: SHL Date: September 8, 2019, 12:37 pm
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[quote author=Chizuko link=topic=1348.msg19370#msg19370
date=1567958426]
SHL
[quote]I turned out having gallstones and a fatty liver
(probably from too many decades of drinking too much beer).
Yeah, I learned you can’t treat your body like a garbage dump
for 40 years and expect to come out smelling like a rose.
I got this fatty liver, which 35% of the population has anyway,
and probably the gallstones from 40 years of too much beer and
whatever else I guzzled down.[/quote]
I must not laugh...but I did. I think you wrote it seriously,
but somehow, it is funny as usual. Is it only me who laughed?
anway, SHL's show has started! Welcome back!
And I hope other members will come back, too! Where are you,
ladies? Don't worry, Big monsters have got to know how to be
gentlemen. They never bite you. Right, everyone?
[/quote]
Thank you Chizuko, you are very sweet.
Yeah, I try to interject a bit of humor in whatever I write most
of the time. Some don’t appreciate it, but that’s okay. All the
folks here are great people, even if most are not convinced of
the beauties of socialism. I‘m working on Neal and Jerry to make
them liberals. They are coming around. :)
The gallstones don’t hurt or cause any symptoms by themselves,
not until one gets stuck in your biliary tract ( the duct that
the bile goes though on its way to help digest the fats in your
food) on its way to your small intestines. When one gets stuck
in the biliary duct, which is just a connecting hole for the
bile to flow through, and blocks it, it hurts like h*ll, and
can last hours (up to 12 hours) until it finally passes though.
I mean this is REAL pain, like morphine style pain! I was
wishing I had a bottle of morphine at the time this happened.
But then it passed after 8 hours and the pain went away, but it
left me with an infection and elevated liver enzymes. So I had
to have that abdominal ultrasound, and that’s when they found
the gallstones (I have more of them) and the fatty liver, like a
goose the French make foie gras out of and put on a cracker to
eat (the poor ducks and geese). The fatty liver is reversible
with clean living- no alcohol and a good diet- and the liver can
heal itself. Amazing organ. And considering the abuse I put my
liver through in my 20s and 30s? Oh my god! Alcohol is the
worst, and I probably drank enough beer to fill the Atlantic
Ocean back in those days. Or like I said, you know those huge
silos in Germany that are filled with beer and are 50 feet high
at the beer factories? They probably contain thousands of liters
of beer? I probably went through about 7 or 8 of those silos
when I was younger.
So, now I stick with a good diet and no alcohol. Just water,
mineral water and coffee (I can‘t stand Cola drinks or sugary
soft drinks- yuk.) And I don’t go out to eat any more because
I‘m too tempted to order a glass of wine with dinner. I just
can‘t order a dinner and drink only water or coffee with it. How
boring.
Then I‘ve got the heart problem to deal with too. I might have
messed my heart up with all that beer and wine and whatever else
I guzzled down over the years too, who knows? But, I‘m on the
mend now. Taking care of myself, taking 10 pills a day in all.
Making up for the sins of the past in treating my body like a
garbage dump for 40 years.
Thanks for the welcome back!
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