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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:02 to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:05 of personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:10 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:14 Cardiovascular disease is a common case 00:17 for many folks these days, 00:18 whether due to genetics or lifestyle practices. 00:22 Today, we'll hear firsthand from Danny Shelton, 00:24 Founder of 3ABN about his experience 00:26 and how God has used this as a blessing in his life. 00:30 Thanks for joining us today on the Ultimate Prescription. 00:54 Welcome to the Ultimate Prescription. 00:55 I'm your host Nick Evenson here with Dr. James Marcum, 00:59 practicing Cardiologist and special guest 01:01 and Founder of 3ABN Danny Shelton, 01:03 welcome to the program. 01:04 Thank you. It's good to be back with you again. 01:07 You know, we talked in our last program 01:09 about the experiences that people have, 01:12 that the genetics sometimes were out 01:14 we have a symptom and when we have a symptom, 01:16 we shouldn't ignore it, okay? 01:18 And I think we learned last time about 01:20 how Dan was really proactive in this, 01:24 you know, you stayed on the treadmill even more, 01:26 you know, a lot of people wouldn't have done that. 01:28 And they picked up the problem and they went through 01:30 the surgery and this program, 01:33 we wanna specifically talk about 01:36 how God uses our health misfortunes 01:40 to increase our ministry and the changes inside 01:44 and, you know, God uses these things 01:47 for whatever reason, 01:49 you know, we think more horizontal, 01:50 but God sees vertically. 01:52 He sees from beginning to end. 01:54 And so let's talk about 01:56 we've got you out of the hospital. 01:58 How has this changed you as a person? 02:01 Well, every day is a gift. 02:04 We realize that and I've said it before. 02:07 But you really realize that after this because as you say, 02:09 when you know people who've gone through 02:11 the exact same thing, 02:13 but they didn't make it 02:14 or maybe they died just a month or two later. 02:17 Mine, I don't know if it's been 15 months or so, 02:19 but the beauty of it is, 02:22 if I die tomorrow, I'd have no regrets. 02:25 I done this all, 02:26 this last 15 months has been worth it. 02:28 My family, the ministry, God has put us in, 02:32 I wouldn't have given this up for nothing. 02:33 So thank you, Lord, for this time 02:36 and whatever we get ahead is a gift, 02:38 but hey, when it's all over, you know, 02:40 should we not live till Lord comes, 02:42 we're only asleep for a moment in the ground. 02:45 Next thing we see is the face of Jesus. 02:47 So we're winners, 02:48 as long as you accept Jesus Christ 02:50 as Lord and Savior of your life, 02:52 and you're willing to go and tell 02:54 what He's done for you. 02:55 Our greatest asset is our own personal testimony 02:58 what God has done for us. 02:59 Not what we read or tell somebody, 03:01 nobody can argue with my testimony 03:03 or your testimony or your testimony. 03:06 So when you have that relationship with Jesus, 03:08 all you have to do is go tell him 03:10 what He's done for you. 03:11 And long as we do that we've submitted committed our, 03:15 you know, life to Jesus. 03:18 We have nothing but good ahead. 03:19 I mean, it's we win. 03:21 That's right. 03:22 Have you ever asked the question why me, Lord? 03:26 Now what I say is why not? 03:28 Okay. 03:29 I say why not me? 03:31 In other words, there are 6.5, 7 billion people 03:33 on planet earth. 03:34 My dad just tell me when I was a kid, 03:36 dad I really wanna do, 03:38 I really, he'd say, son, I think something so important. 03:41 He said, just look at your life. 03:43 You're a speck of sand on this earth. 03:45 You're no better than anybody else. 03:47 You're no less than anybody else. 03:49 But whatever happens to you, 03:50 the Bible says "Rain's gonna fall 03:52 on the just as well as the unjust." 03:54 So that's not important. 03:56 What's happening right now is not important, 03:58 the important decision 03:59 you can make is serving the Lord. 04:02 So that when the short 10 years, 04:04 50 years, 100 years is over, you have eternity. 04:08 So for me, why not? The devil is out to steal, 04:10 kill and destroy. 04:12 Dr. Marcum, if we didn't, 04:13 and, Nick, if we didn't experience sin, 04:16 we wouldn't appreciate heaven. 04:18 We would see no reason 04:20 to serve the Lord if we were gods here, 04:22 and we could live and everything. 04:23 But when people get down, and you go through, you know, 04:28 circumstances and trials, 04:30 that's when you become, suddenly you say, 04:32 "Well, how immortal or how mortal I really am." 04:35 Immortality only comes later. 04:37 So now what happens to me when I die by the way? 04:42 You know, we got everything going our way, 04:44 money, job, everything we want, we get independent. 04:48 And then all of a sudden things go, 04:50 but so these are good things. 04:52 In the valley, He restores our soul. 04:54 So praise God. Nobody enjoys it. 04:57 You're going through crisis is not fun. 04:59 But on the other hand, 05:01 if it's for purification gold refined in the fire. 05:03 Hey, let's do it. Yeah. 05:06 Now I've taken care of lots of patients 05:08 and sent people for bypass. 05:09 I've never had it. 05:11 So I don't really know what it feels like. 05:13 But many of my patients come back saying, you know, 05:16 that they've changed inside they're more emotional, 05:20 a lot of them have more fears and anxieties. 05:22 Have you had some of those 05:23 natural feelings after the bypass? 05:26 Just shortly afterwards, 05:27 maybe while I was still taking some strong 05:30 medicine like amiodarone, I think, 05:32 a few of those, your emotions can do things 05:35 and I think that has to do with your sleep. 05:37 I had to do that for a few months. 05:39 Once I got off of that. 05:40 My everythin seemed to go back to normal 05:43 and maybe better. 05:45 The thing I experienced 13 days I'm home. 05:48 And I do a video with my wife on Facebook. 05:52 People are asking, how you doing? 05:54 And I say, "The Lord has blessed. 05:56 Thirteen days later and I'm dressed in my clothes. 05:58 I'm sitting up in the worship room. 06:00 And telling how good God is 06:02 and how He brought me through it." 06:03 And I put down the video go sit in the kitchen 06:06 about an hour or two later, 06:08 I feel my pulse. 06:09 Suddenly, my neck is doing like this 06:11 you can actually see it and my pulse is racing. 06:15 You know everything, my blood pressure is going up 06:18 and bottom numbers almost 120 and that's what worries me 06:23 more than the top number so much, 06:24 you know, so it was only 180 or 190 06:27 whatever but bottom number 120 and raising. 06:30 My pulse is up to around 170 or 175. 06:33 And mine's always slow. 06:34 I'm 60, you know there 06:37 that so we went to the hospital, Carbondale. 06:40 My wife took me down there. They did all kinds of stuff. 06:43 And it didn't help, didn't stop, 06:45 and then actually they said well, 06:46 his heart starting to pause now. 06:48 So now we got to quit everything. 06:50 And so they just kind of sedated me some and... 06:53 So you've developed atrial fibrillation? 06:55 AFib, yes. 06:56 So that happened but by the next morning 06:59 about seven in the morning it just went back 07:01 into sinus rhythm. 07:02 And it's been good ever since, I haven't experienced that 07:06 all these months later, or a year, 07:08 you know, nearly year and a half, whatever. 07:10 Now I have a question with you 07:12 and everyone's a little bit different. 07:14 Do you think it would have been beneficial 07:15 to know all the things that could happen 07:18 after the surgery, you know, 07:19 some of the things happen, some of the things don't, 07:21 but atrial fibrillation is a very common thing 07:24 after surgery 'cause, you know, 07:25 we manipulate the atrium, it takes some time to heal too. 07:29 Heart failure building up fluid in the lungs 07:31 and not getting the lungs to expand in short, 07:33 it's very common, 07:35 not sleeping well at night is very common, 07:38 not going to the bathroom quite as well is very common. 07:41 Do you think a physician should tell patients 07:44 all that 'cause I've sort of, you know, 07:46 'cause you have to know your patient, 07:47 some people if it's not gonna happen, 07:50 why scare them? 07:52 You know, what do you think it'd been beneficial 07:54 to know that this could happen 07:56 or just know that you need to get help 07:58 if something doesn't feel right. 07:59 Every surgeon, every hospital ought to have this program, 08:03 the Ultimate Prescriptions to give to each patient 08:06 before the surgery 08:08 because what you're doing here is incredible. 08:11 And you're exactly right. 08:12 I wish somebody would have told me all these things. 08:16 They don't wanna be too negative, 08:17 they're afraid you don't want the surgery, 08:19 but they don't wanna promise you too much either. 08:21 So you're kind of in this window, 08:24 you ask somebody that, "Well, I'll ask him." 08:26 He tells you this. 08:27 You ask somebody else, 08:29 they give you a totally different, 08:30 you know, so now you don't know what to expect. 08:33 So it yes. 08:36 So you think knowledge would help relay this. 08:38 Tremendously. 08:39 So I try to tell people, 08:41 you know, after the bypass surgery, 08:43 it's natural for your heart to go fast sometimes. 08:46 And if it does happen, here's the algorithm. 08:49 Don't panic because that's gonna make things worse. 08:51 Just say, "You know, do some deep breaths 08:54 that hasn't gone away in 30 minutes, 08:55 you need to go the hospital." 08:57 And in the hospital, we can take care of that. 08:59 As long as you're not passing out 09:01 and breathing okay, it's not gonna kill you, 09:03 but we need to deal with it 09:04 'cause this is a common complication 09:06 after we have bypass surgery. 09:09 So you feel that would have helped you out some? 09:12 Tremendously, yeah. 09:13 And they did a great job actually. 09:14 Now yours went away on its own? 09:16 Is that correct? Well, I think so. 09:18 I don't know what they would give me, 09:19 it just didn't work that night 09:21 but during the night Yvonne sat there and she said, 09:23 you know, you finally went to sleep. 09:24 And then about 7 o'clock they came in and said okay... 09:27 And sometimes though it doesn't go away so quickly, 09:30 and we do have to do a procedure 09:32 called a cardioversion 09:33 where we shock the heart back in rhythm. 09:35 Yeah, I was dreading that. 09:36 And we usually, lot of doctors don't say, 09:38 but a lot of these medicines that we use 09:41 after the bypass surgery, 09:43 they're just there until the body heals. 09:45 And sometimes the doctors 09:46 can take away them one at a time. 09:49 And then which medicines we use long-term to help slow down 09:53 genetic aging depends on 09:56 the side effects a person might have. 09:58 Did you have any medicines that didn't agree with you? 10:01 Oh, yes. 10:02 Yeah, and sometimes we have that 10:04 and you just say what the symptoms are. 10:05 And we can stop that and try something else. 10:08 And it seemed to me this one particular medicine, 10:11 it even affects you emotionally. 10:13 Like your mind will say things or you might say things 10:16 that you wouldn't normally say, 10:19 and you don't really realize it at the time or later, 10:21 you say, "Well, I made a dumb decision. 10:23 Why did I think this, 10:25 but I noticed as soon as I got off of it, 10:27 it wasn't very long." 10:29 I don't know if two weeks, three weeks, 10:31 all of a sudden, I'm back to being normal. 10:34 And I didn't, I'm not been one person 10:36 in my life to get depressed. 10:38 But if anybody has that tendency, 10:41 I would think some of this medication 10:42 could get you depressed so prepare for that. 10:45 But understand that every day 10:47 you got to stay close to the Lord. 10:48 And that's your answer 10:50 'cause He's gonna give you peace 10:52 in the midst of the storm. 10:53 Yeah, and that's such a wonderful promise... 10:56 That's a wonderful peace to have that. 10:59 So after the bypass surgery, 11:02 I know you probably got going a little bit quicker 11:05 than your doctors would want you to get going. 11:07 I didn't. 11:08 Did they tell you that you shouldn't do heavy lifting 11:09 and pulling for about six months? 11:11 Yeah, they did. 11:13 And I tried not to do that heavy lifting. 11:15 But at walking, I was when I would go 11:18 to therapy over to Herrin. 11:20 About three days a week I was on treadmills 11:22 and now always worried about what everybody else is doing 11:25 'cause I wanted to, you know, get there that thing 11:27 and you got to be the best you can be, 11:29 you know, but that they said fine, 11:31 but don't do the lifts. 11:32 I stayed away from that. I didn't wanna. 11:35 So you were good patient. 11:36 I have horse feeding stuff. 11:37 But, you know, Jason would 11:39 come over or somebody else and say, 11:40 "Hey, let me put that horse feed as 50 pounds and so." 11:43 I did stay away from that out this chest thing. 11:45 I didn't wanna mess with that. 11:47 I know you. It's wired shut. So I paid attention. 11:49 You know, where the bones take 11:51 about six to eight weeks to heal. 11:53 Yeah. 11:55 So if, you know, like if you had a broken arm, 11:56 you put it in a cast. 11:58 We can't put the whole body into cast. 12:00 We have to have that healing time 12:01 that the patients do and that's a natural 12:03 feeling to have aches and pain 12:05 in that area till the bone, the sternum heals up. 12:08 My surgeon said before you really do everything 12:10 that you've done before you're very active. 12:13 It could be 12 to 18 months. 12:15 Yeah. So don't, like, I always welcome my hands 12:17 for my grandkids 12:18 and every class reunion since I've got out of school. 12:21 I always welcome my hands. 12:23 They'll say, "Hey, can you still walk on your hands?" 12:25 I did had had my 50th one few months ago. 12:28 It was the first time I didn't, I was tempted to try it. 12:30 But I said, "No, no, I'm letting this thing heal." 12:33 And so maybe the next one Lord willing, 12:35 if I'm still there, I'll be able to, 12:37 so those puts a lot of stress and pressure 12:39 here and weight, but I'm not doing any of that. 12:41 I play a little basketball but not too much. 12:43 We're gonna talk about the basketball and, you know, 12:45 anything that causes this grunting 12:47 type thing surges the blood pressure, 12:50 and these surges in blood pressure causes 12:53 parts not to last as long. 12:54 Nick? 12:55 Yeah, I was just gonna ask 12:57 how long till you get back to playing basketball? 12:58 Well, I don't always know I'm not been back full-time 13:01 as I've been helping Jason, 13:02 Yvonne son, our son now to build a new house. 13:05 So when I get weekends or nights 13:08 we get lights on over there. 13:09 I can go work and also, but I still go shoot around. 13:12 So I like that. Okay, that's great. 13:14 We're gonna take a quick break, but there's more to come 13:17 as Danny shares more about 13:18 this being a blessing in his life, 13:20 and we'll be back with more in just a moment 13:21 on the Ultimate Prescription. |
Revised 2020-02-15