Tablets, tablets everywhere and all of them to take, (an update lol)

In the college broadcasting studio presenting my first Unique Dyslexic Eye show

Hi everyone hope you are all doing well:

This is basically an update of a blog I wrote in 2014:

Well today I have my first session in the gym as part of the recuperation process after my heart attack a few weeks ago. ( I have since survived 3 more heart attacks, my last being around 4 years ago)

Sigh this will be fun lol. I have my sounds ready on my I pod, got my shorts and plimmys ready. Eeeep feels like I am back at school again. (As it turned out it was fine I enjoyed the gym.)

When my thyroid went squwiff, hmmm maybe 25 years ago now, it turned me from a 10 stone pretty fit person who walked lots, gigged regularly very active etc. I did a lot of physical geography as part of my degree so I climbed mountains, went pot holing etc.

I turned into a 19 stone person who could not walk to the bus stop. I have a genetically inherited thyroid condition called Hashimotos disease which is rife on my mum's side of the family.

I remember thinking to myself when the docs eventually diagnosed, me hmmm trust me to end up with a disease that sounds like some weird Japanese manga video game. That process took a year to complete.

Another thought that sprang to mind was, "ahhh I am finally in touch with my feminine side" lol

Hashimotos disease, basically means my auto immune system is treating my thyroid as an enemy and so is attacking it. Arrrgh life long taking of thyroxin tablets lol.

Then about maybe 10 years ago my autoimmune system stared attacking my pancreas and I went type two diabetic. Ohhhh the joy of it all more tablets lol.

I have been asking for help from the doctors with my weight for years because I knew my weight was the real problem here and how it could impact on my heart. But it was all to no avail lol.

I did manage to get myself down to 17 stone and got myself back into a reasonably fit state again. But it took a lot of hard work but no matter what I did I could not lose any more weight.  

Of course no where near as fit as I was. Anyway the doctors were no help at all.......One doctor said to me, "well you carry it well", another said, "we cant do miracles.  Another said, hmmmmm well having hashimotos and type two diabetes makes losing weight very difficult.

I was going to go for one of those surgical cutting you tummy in half operation when I lived in London. But then I moved to Fife and that is not offered here. Ohh the doc said I could go to a group of patients having this operation in Dundee but I couldn't have the operation......hmmmm bit pointless that.

Then the event happened that I knew was inevitable I had my heart attack. Now I had gone into hospital the week before with chest pains, had all the tests and they said everything was hunky dory ,that I was experiencing acid indigestion lol. YAAAAAAA! yet more tablets to take along with statin tablets and daily asprin lol.

Then exactly one week later boooom heart attack. The hospital informed me it was a mild heart attack. It was not until a couple of weeks later I discover from my GP that it was right ventricle was 99% blocked. I am very lucky the rest of my heart is fine and all I needed was one stent fitted. But oh joy and rapture what do I get to take? More tablets lol. (I have since had 3 more stents fitted.)

So now after I have had the heart attack and nearly popped my clogs I get help with my weight sigh. (I am down to 16 stone now by the way)

Anyway I realise its not exactly a dyslexia related blog but thanks for reading. However, I do believe all the stress and anxiety of living in a dyslexia unfriendly society had its part to play.

As of today I am feeling fab, I don't do the gym anymore because I get my exercise from running my allotment. This is my third season doing that. 

Many thanks for reading

#PeaceLoveGroovyness to you all

Steve McCue (I am a dyslexic, dyslexia and inclusion specialist, social entrepreneur, blogger, podcaster and broadcaster)

Tablets, tablets everywhere lol