If you don't take care of your health then you are....

Take care of yourself. I think we should all take a lesson from this.

I am actually writing this on day one of my all meat and green vegetable diet for the next month, so that's as good of timing as any.

 

Hope you get well there @TallJoe !!!

 

#### Joe sorry to hear that and hope you recover well enough to get back to work soon. It sounds like you're lucky and got a second chance. I'm only 5 years behind you and trying to change my eating habits concerned about this maybe happening to me. It's hard though. For me it is harder than quitting smoking was. I enjoy eating good food.

Trucking and poor diet got me put on blood pressure meds about 15 years ago. Fricken covid shut everything down and we're all sitting at the house for months just eating and drinking beer. I shot up almost 40 lbs to 250 lbs. Never been so big in my life. Probably need to shed about 65 lbs ideally. I'm starting to feel it my knees hurt like hell some days and they never used to. Anyways, good luck, we'll pray for you.

 

Whoa Nelly! Sorry to hear this. Get well soon!

 

Hope you feel better Joe. Panic attack maybe? Since you mentioned stress

 

Sounds familiar.... did you throw a clot by chance? Make sure they check your lungs for embolisms. Had an Uncle die from that at 44, got mine at 49, was lucky the clots went left instead of right, or It would have been pushing daisies...

 

Last month we had a driver who was 55 pass away at home from a heart attack . He wasn’t overweight or lazy but he did live a heavy drinker lifestyle in his younger days till he was 40ish not sure if that had any effect on his heart attack. That’s the 4 th driver I’ve worked with who heart attacks got them . It’s pretty sobering thought about health for sure.

 

Who ever heard of a truck driver with too much stress? My mom always said, "life is like walking behind a shooting gallery, and trying not to get hit". You can have all the prevention in the world, and still fall over. It's in the cards. What are you eating? If I trucked today, I'd have a fridge, and as much healthy stuff I could fit in. It's salt. Just look at all the salt. I bought a "Dinty Moore" beef stew, that frinkin' thing has FIFTY % of a daily salt intake,,,50%!!! And that's just one item. Reataurant food is even worse, so they sell more soda. Good luck, pal, and leave those ER nurses alone,,

 

Glad your back. Don't let them rookies get to ya no more!