3 Ways To Improve Heart Failure, No Extra Meds Needed
3 Ways To Improve Heart Failure, No Extra Meds Needed
Six Tampa VA Congestive Heart failure patients speaking about a modality they used that helped them prevent heart failure exacerbations.
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3.461 -> I was driving the taxi for most of the
time. 20 years.
9.134 -> I'm 61 years old and I work in the CWT
Program the VA hospital.
15.849 -> I worked for the United States Postal
Service I worked there 25 years I retired.
22.188 -> I ended up joining the Long Beach VA band
26.651 -> After I retired from the military. I
applied and became a teacher.
31.865 -> I worked 20 years at the Lakeland on fire
department and I spent 10 years in the
Air Force.
38.788 -> I was employed and self-taught welder
metal fabricator all from the military to
until I retired.
46.421 -> and this is a fish gig we live on the
water.
49.883 -> one thing I did, was I built five
portable hangars for the B-2
stealth bomber.
55.805 -> I didn't want to use the CPAP because he
was uncomfortable.
61.644 -> and I was afraid and I see the difference
now I wake up more refreshed.
67.567 -> and when I'm using it I'm using it every
day but all of a sudden I feel different
better and right now even why my nose
77.368 -> is stuff I put it on and it clears the way.
Instead of our giving me problems.
84.334 -> you know learning the Golden Rule. You
know teaching about the protractor.
89.464 -> You know learning ABCs 1 2 3. that's
what it was all about.
94.052 -> You know so I did that very fulfilling and
because I did at risk.
99.432 -> I did that you know for my 20 years and
then after that I went to the police
department
106.481 -> and that's when they realized that I had
congestive heart failure at that time.
110.902 -> So but I don't like that slow me down
you know.
113.947 -> So they told me to try to try the machine,
try the machine and I sleep a lot better
using machine.
119.577 -> I feel air flowing and everything else.
122.205 -> but then they showed us you know that
there was different types of masks that
you can use when you sleep.
130.839 -> So I bought into that idea you know
I didn't have to look like the
133.258 -> You know what movie was on it "Silence of
the Lamb" you know I gonna wearing.
know, I mean I couldn't deal with that.
142.225 -> But a the mask was very small especially
around your ears and real comfortable.
149.941 -> That's a military name I got bear yeah
cuz a friend of mine he went down in an
airplane crash
158.366 -> and he called he named me bear a lot
people think cuz it's my size
163.121 -> but he named me bear cuz I was able to
sleep through artillery fire so he said I
was hibernating
169.544 -> so he just start calling me bear and so I
just carried the name in his memory , Bear.
175.258 -> you know it's a program that aids us
daily in our health as far as like
180.93 -> our blood pressure, our sugar,
us being a diabetic.
186.561 -> telehealth when we call our readings in
each morning they go over our readings
192.275 -> and if something is not right especially
with me I'll get a call from Carmen.
198.531 -> I've been here on this earth 59 years and
since I've been with the VA
204.871 -> you know I can honestly say if God was to
call me home today
209.709 -> I can honestly say that without the
medical attention that I was getting from
the VA
215.673 -> I believe I would have been gone a
whileback a long time ago.
219.552 -> I have Buffalo Bill with me who is a prop
used to for doctors and nurses to practice
there are tube feedings on patient.
228.686 -> Telehealth when I weigh myself and take my
blood pressure every morning. and its great
tool and it's got me to lose a lot of
weight and its fabulous.
239.989 -> I used to end up in the hospital all the
time with congestive heart failure
243.868 -> but since I've been in the telehealth
program I haven't been in the hospital
but now that I got somebody monitoring me
251.084 -> and saying hey mr. Kriegler you don't had
a weight gain or all this what are you
doing. You know control my fluid intake
and I got a method of doing that
261.844 -> so I'm learned a lot from the telehealth
program.
266.891 -> From my house to the mailboxes a couple
hundred yards. I'd have to ride to my
mailbox and back.
275.942 -> Now I can walk down there and I don't
want fast but I can walk to my mailbox
and walk back to my house.
282.74 -> When I asked me over the rehab place what
I wanted to do and that was to learn to
walk better.
288.037 -> When you start your exercises and
everything they hook a heart monitor up
to you while you're doing that.
295.378 -> Most all of my friends around me told me
that I was looking better and I can walk
further now and I could when I started
the program.
305.054 -> When you start the rehab program they
start you start the rehab program they
start you off low and build you up till
they getting you more and more.
313.521 -> They say, Beryl next week you got to do
20 instead of 18 .
318.484 -> Well I was fat dumb and happy and thought
I was healthy as a horse and just
overnight I came down with congestive
heart failure hospitalized twice or three
times three times
333.499 -> and when this program was offered the
cardio rehab I thought it would be a good
idea to try it
341.341 -> and it worked out very wellfor me I
gained my strength my ejection fracture
improved during that period of time.
350.767 -> I still used the same principles of riding
my bike and going to the gym and doing the
stationary bike at the gym and so getting
on the bicycle
364.405 -> and also losing a little bit of my
equilibrium riding they wheeled bicycle
was one thing I had stopped doing
373.748 -> so with the workouts that Warren and Mike
put me through I gained my
strength, my knees still bothered me but
I still riding my bike.
385.385 -> I have noticed that he is breathing a lot
better after he does his rehab and his
walking is the hundred-percent.
394.227 -> So the biggest improvement that I found or
the biggest change in our life was when
Russell started his therapy
403.152 -> because he was so sick and it seemed like
it was a roller coaster ride with his
congestive heart failure .
409.909 -> The way it was and then when he started
the rehab he immediately started doing
better
416.04 -> and the more he did it the better he felt
the stronger he got the more he got back
to normal.
422.63 -> Life became back to normal and so we are
just very very happy and I'm a happy woman
because I have my husband healthy.
431.305 -> People come complain about the veterans
not getting good treatment I just want not
getting good treatment.
440.314 -> I just want to say I've been coming to
Tampa to the VA hospital for over 20 years
and they have treated me very very well.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YJJBELPTfE