ingold1234[at]yahoo[dot]com (Gandalf) wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:38:28 -0500, "CatNipped"
wrote:

Sorry, got the first one wrong - it is "Cardiomyopathy" (I'm also
dyslexic -
"Dyslexics Untie!!" ;

I read you first post, and thought "I know what Cardiomyopathy is...I
wonder if Catnipped got it backwards" Medical terms are really
confusing.

Cardiomyopathy just means damage or deterioration to the heart muscle.
It's sort of a general term, and doesn't indicate how or why it has
happened.

Left ventricular thrombus is another kind of general term. It means a
blood clot in, or affecting the left ventricle.

The left ventricle is the chamber of the heart that does the most work
of pumping blood.

So, the 'names' they gave you sort of describe what happened to your
heart, but not how or why.

I hope that you are feeling better, and that you are getting enough pain
medication to be reasonably comfortable.

There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for anyone to me IN A HOSPITAL, and be in
pain! Hearing about that just made me angry!

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein


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Thank you, Inge. That's sort of what I thought, but a google search just
brings up sites that are incomprehensible to a non-medical person. And the
amount of "hits" is in the millions, and I am just too physically tired to
even think about it. My brain just seems to "seize up" on me. My heart
just will no longer let me push myself past exhaustion and pain like my
stubbornness and pig-headedness used to do. I'm not getting enough oxygen
into my body to exert even mental effort. So I really appreciate and simple
language explanation.

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