A while back I was in a mad rush to get some tasks of the day completed. In my schedule I had to take out a bit of time to go to a hospital out patient dept for some medical treatment which had been pre-arranged. By the time I found a parking spot (a few blocks away) I was only a few minutes away from my appointment time. NO PROBLEM, old Fred will just jog a few blocks. Well I collapsed at the door of the hospital, was taken into ER, wired up, pumped up and what ever else they do to keep old carcases alive. They take more blood than I thought I had and I drop off to sleep.
DW shows up at the same time as the attending doctor (a heart specialist) with the blood test results. The first words the doctor speaks is, "Hello, If you were going to collapse, our front door was the best place to do it", Then looks at the blood test results and asks, "How much coffee do you drink in day?" I was about to say about a dozen when my DW (bless her heart) says," About 80 cups a day." "Why does it show up in the blood test results?" The doctor say, "No I was just curious." and he tells DW to cut me back to 50 or 60 cups. I'm having a hard time believing what I'm hearing and say so. My DW (bless her heart) says, "Do the math. I make about 8 to 10 pots of coffee a day (24 hrs.) 8 or 10 pots x 10 = over 80 cups a day." Sheeeeesh I never ever gave it a thought before.
At any rate, my short stint in jogging plus the medication that I was on caused me to have a double heart beat. My blood was going though my lungs so fast the blood couldn't pick up enough oxygen. The doctor and his team have a simple solution and the plan is to give me a pill to stop my heart from beating and through an IV a solution a drug to get my heart beating again (they hope). The procedure worked and I was out of there in about an hour and WALKING with my DW back to my van.
As we are driving home my DW says, "You are not going to believe this!" I say, "What?" My DW say, "That heart specialist told me that he drinks 45 to 50 cups of strong Turkish coffee a day!" Then she says that as of today she is cutting me back to 50 cups a day no matter how much I complain. Interesting enough I handled the restriction quite well. Maybe because when I make the coffee the measuring spoon is, how shall I put it, a little over heaping. LOL
Fred