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Consequences

OldBones-Larry
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As some of you know, I worked in a hospital for several years. I assisted at autopsies, worked the ER, performed surgical preps, worked the Radiology darkroom, and other duties.

I saw the things that happen to the human body at autopsies that should have made me quit smoking.

They didn't. The mindset of it can't happen to me was the norm for us those days.

I saw lungs blackened, filled with tumors, and turned to leather.

I saw hearts swollen to 2-3 times normal size.

I saw arteries filled with plaque that looked like cream cheese when examined.

I saw blood vessels in the brain ruptured from wall weakening.

I would invite anyone to search for pictures of these things on the internet.

It took my own severe illness to finally see that these things could happen to me.

COPD, bypass surgery, PAD, and heart failure are a few of the gifts smoking gave to me.

I urge you to throw smoking materials away today. Free yourself from the addiction to nicotine before these things show up at your own autopsy.

Maybe you will be spared some of these sicknesses.

Take the first step today my friends.

One step, and then another, will get you to where you want to be.

Larry

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I am a male that underwent coronary artery bypass X3 (triple) on 10/22/13 at the age of 55. I was living on about 20-30% of one coronary artery and my left heart output was only 20% to 25%. I spent a week in the hospital after surgery and went home. Then had to go back a day later for another week because I had pneumonia. Finally a few days because of a slight arythmia. All told it has been about 2 1/2 weeks. I am past the cravings by now and only have the urges to contend with. I really don't suggest that anyone quits smoking using this technique though. I'll have to carry the scars from that day for the rest of my life. The large one down the center of my chest, and the ones from several "silent" infarctions. I came that close to the next world. Never again will I subject my body to that (at one point in my life I was smoking 5 packs of cigarillos a day). I now have to say N.O.P.E. (Not One Puff Ever) every day of my life. TheOldGoat-Joan, I miss you terribly my friend. Elder Lists Guilia's: (/blogs/Giulia-blog/2017/06/18/elders-list-ao-december-7-2016 ) or Smorgy's (Chronological Elder List)