[ExI] good news for a monday morning

[William Flynn Wallace]

I  told Spike, so all of you might as well know:  I was diagnosed with
heart failure (according to what I read, it's not the congestive sort), and
found that I had already had a heart attack some time in the past.  I was
put on Entresto and a beta blocker.  The latter strongly affects my
cognitive abilities, and both make me weak and tired even though I am doing
nothing.  If I cannot get the cardiologist to lower my pills I will do it
anyway even if I am less safe by doing so.  Quality is more important than
just living longer, and I feel worse than I did before starting the pills.
My back won't let me do much anyhow and if I cannot just sit and read
psychology and other nonfiction and understand it, it is just not the life
I want.   Just sitting and waiting to die is not my thing.

I too might exit, but my wife, my children etc. may suffer if I do, so I'll
have to really take them into consideration when and if the time comes.
I'll know more after Wednesday - first real meeting with the doctor (the
one who gave me the pills, and told me nothing, retired).

Don't you DARE feel sorry for me.  I have had an extremely full and
satisfying life, even with the medical problems.   bill w

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:28 AM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Ending up like this is my worst nightmare.   I plan on doing my best to
> self exit if needed at that point assuming I make it that long.   Of
> course, if I sign up for Alcor at some point, that's an additional wrinkle
> to smooth out.
>
> I'm sorry to hear about your aunt, Bill.
>
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 12:15 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Catastrophe?   I can imagine that quite a few of the nursing home people
>> were glad to have a way off the planet.  A silver lining for the
>> silver-headed.  I had an aunt who lived to be 96 and who was blind for the
>> last 20 years.  She kept wondering why she couldn't die.  She would have
>> welcomed a virus like this one.  bill w
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 10:22 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the CDC data for all US deaths from all causes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The most recent bar is for the week ending 29 August.  They give 10 days
>>> before they put the bar on there.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That last week of August is lowest number of deaths in any week in the
>>> last 3.7 years.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm#dashboard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That big Sturgis rally apparently lowered it, but I wouldn’ta thought it
>>> would lower it this much: only one part in 700 can be explained that way.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> European nations should have something analogous to this, ja?  What is
>>> happening over there?  We know of the nursing home catastrophe: perhaps
>>> covid slew the oldest and sickest, and now there are fewer left alive in
>>> those categories.  Or… normal flu deaths are down because of extra
>>> precautions?  Ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> spike
>>>
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