The Mortal Engine

Everyone has seen ads on TV for various products promoting "heart health". I know,at least for me, in my youth I did so many things that were detrimental to my body overall and thought very little of it. I was a long time smoker....a heavy drinker for probably 10 years or more and my body kept fighting the good fight all those years....an amazing self healing machine that would recover from almost anything you could stupidly throw at it and it would come back for more. Hungover? Give it 8hrs and you will be ready to go out for a beverage with the boys. Got a bad cough? Cut back on the cigs or change to lights for a pack...problem solved.

What many of us know subconciously but don't heed is that eventually with enough abuse....the body can no longer spring back like it did some years ago.

In my case it is the one component of the machine that runs  the whole show....the heart....the mortal engine. I like to think about it as an electrical device that controls the voltage and current that goes to all other devices in the machine. When that overriding device stops sending out the proper current (blood flow) every other device in the system starts to fail. The brain is an amazing component in the system...controlling thought, motor function, memory, and a myriad of other things....but when it doesn't get enough blood (current) you find yourself feeling faint and dizzy...exascerbated by being a type 2 diabetic with orthostatic hypotension . Thats a big medical term for your blood vessels not constricting enough when you stand up to maintain your blood pressure caused by neuropathy from nerve damage due to the diabetes.

So due to my years of devil may care fun....now I am left weak, dizzy and grabbing for bottles of pills afer every meal to maintain my unproductive existence of weak and dizzy.

Bottom line take care of your heart kids....it's the Mortal Engine