Dear Bob,
I understand that your father is dying from a cardiovascular disease. I am very sorry to hear this bit of news. You have my condolences. All of my grandparents died from cardiovascular disease. I can understand how pained you feel right now. It’s OK to feel grief every now and then as we are all human.
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the world today. Just to serve as a warning, since you have a close relative that is suffering from this disease, you have to be careful with your own health because your chances are higher in getting cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease has to do with the heart and the arteries. Basically, the walls of the arteries get clogged up with fats, cholesterol, calcium and many other kinds of substances. Then the heart has to work harder to pump blood thought the narrow arteries. Heart attacks happen when these arteries are fully clogged and the heart works so hard to pump blood through but can’t and not enough oxygen is supplied to the heart, so it “gives up.”(dies)
There are many causes of cardiovascular disease. Just a couple would be eating habits, smoking, drinking, obesity, no exercise… and the list goes on. Cardiovascular disease isn’t something that comes spontaneously, it happens over time. Arteries can start accumulating junk against their walls when you’re as young as a teenager. In some cases, when you are a child. Over the years, blood clots and lipids and all the other junk piles itself up against the walls. When you are obese, the heart has to work harder to pump blood through your arteries as they would have to get past all the fat that is trapped along the walls. Smoking causes the red blood cells’ oxygen intake to decline, making it harder for oxygen to get to the cells, which in turn makes the heart pump harder. When you don’t exercise, your heart doesn’t need to work as hard and it doesn’t get enough of a workout. When your body suddenly demands more oxygen, the poor heart can’t cope as it is not used to being worked so hard and it gives up. Also, when you don’t exercise, it allows the lipids, fats, cholesterol and other junk to collect easily along the artery walls since the blood stream isn’t pushing it along and so the junk settles. When you overeat, the fats that you don’t need enter into your blood stream. The more the fat enters, the harder it is to go away and it lodges itself comfortably somewhere along your blood vessels. All these are just some of the lifestyle causes of cardiovascular disease.
However, there are ways to prevent it from happening to you. Exercising daily for at least half an hour each time helps your heart to condition itself and gets your blood moving, so the junk doesn’t settle along your arteries as easily. If you control your diet and limit fats from what you eat and do not overeat, that is another factor taken care of. If you don’t drink and smoke, then basically, you should not suffer from cardiovascular disease.
Remember, cardiovascular disease is a lifestyle disease. Yes, it is sometimes genetic, but you can limit those risks by taking those precautionary necessary steps that can prevent cardiovascular disease. Hopefully, Bob, you can take this as a positive lesson and learn from it so that you won’t have to suffer the same fate. Also, you can warn others as well and use this experience to help others avoid the same mistake.
Grieving over someone that is close to you that will be no more is quite painful. Some symptoms of grief would be disbelief, anger, depression and sadness and lastly, acceptance. Grief will end when one comes to terms and accepts the loss. If you feel constantly depressed for more than 2 months after your loss, consider consulting a counselor to help you overcome your grief. If you have other people to help you go through this process of grief, you can stand back up on your feet easier. Grief will end when you accept the loss and move forward into the future with your life. I am very sorry for you and your family who are going through this tough time. However, the pain will soon leave and then things won’t seem so bleak.
I wish you all the best!
Regards,
Doc
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