Tony Scharf

[Jay Vaughan]

Great to hear you’re safe and sound Tony S, you had us all a little worried there for a few hours, but as you say .. better safe than sorry.  

Reminds me that I probably should go get my yearly exam one of these days soon, as well.  Life, eh?

j.


On 17 Oct 2013, at 00:58, Tony Scharf <noisetheorem at outlook.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for the kind words (even you, Peter).  
> 
> Long story short I am fine.  It turned out to be a combination of unusually low potassium levels and acid reflux disease.  They found this out after a day and a half of poking, prodding and making me run on a treadmill until I did actually wish I was dead.  
> 
> The good part about having that kind of workup done is I can be fairly certain that if there were anything really wrong they would have found it.  The also have a baseline for comparison when I have more testing done later in life.   While they didn't find anything wrong, they found a lot of little indicators that, if I act now, could prevent me from following my fathers (6 heart attacks by age 60) footsteps.  
> 
> With my father, I hit the genetic lottery for potential to develop heart disease:  I am prone to low levels of 'good' cholesterol and very prone to high blood pressure (already have that).  Thats basically why I went to the emergency room. 
> 
> Aside from being very, very tired (rest is something you just can't get in a hospital) I feel fine now.    
> 
> Thank you again,     
> 
> Tony
> 
> On Oct 16, 2013, at 12:39 PM, "deeplfo" <deeplfo at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tony,
>> If you are reading this, I hope you are doing OK, as I saw your post about being in hospital.
>> 
>> Hope that you are OK.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Mohsen
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