First Haddock was attacked by his cruiser...
Now I've been attacked...well, by me! Had a heart attack last week and just got out of Cardiac Intensive Care at Mission Hospital today. Happy to be sitting here typing this.
Had two stents put in my right coronary artery. It was 100% blocked! Fortunately it seems that the attacks were minor (if you can call any heart attack minor) and probably had been going on for a week or two in hindsight. I'd recognized the signs as I know all 5 signs well, just didn't think it was true and racked it up to stress and anxiety from work. Had cancelled going to the Off Road Expo with SOCALFJ after one episode and instead of driving to the hospital, I went home and rested. That was 10.10. The next day, I couldn't even finish walking 18 holes of golf (shortness of breath and tingling/pain down arms) and I can do that in my sleep - at least I used to! Went to my Dr on Monday. EKG was normal but we scheduled a nuclear stress test for Friday. Before getting to the test, Wednesday night I woke up in the middle of the night with pretty bad chest pressure. Wrote that off to horrible indigestion. NOT!
Started the resting part of the test on Friday and my doctor came as scheduled for the stress test portion. He'd wanted me in the hospital Thursday after describing my symptoms from Wednesday night to his assistant. Didn't because by that time on Thursday afternoon I was feeling 'ok'. He said on Friday he was uncomfortable with me doing the stress test at all and suggested we walk over to the hospital immediately to have an angioplasty. He'd already spoken to a cardiologist I listened to him! I've been seeing him for over 20 years and really do trust him, even if I'm a stubborn SOB! Wisked thru ER to the cardio cath lab for the procedure and the found the problem.
Happy that the heart attacks weren't huge ones and the heart muscle still looks reasonably good from the echocardiogram.
Gang - I was stubborn admitting the symptoms I knew and recognized and feel fortunate the heart attacks weren't more severe and damaging. I'm damn glad to be hear telling my story.
Do not ignore:
1. heavy chest pressure/pain
2. tingling/pain down left arm especially and even the right
3. shortness of breath
4. sudden sweats
5. nausea.
I had all but the nausea.
Now I've been attacked...well, by me! Had a heart attack last week and just got out of Cardiac Intensive Care at Mission Hospital today. Happy to be sitting here typing this.
Had two stents put in my right coronary artery. It was 100% blocked! Fortunately it seems that the attacks were minor (if you can call any heart attack minor) and probably had been going on for a week or two in hindsight. I'd recognized the signs as I know all 5 signs well, just didn't think it was true and racked it up to stress and anxiety from work. Had cancelled going to the Off Road Expo with SOCALFJ after one episode and instead of driving to the hospital, I went home and rested. That was 10.10. The next day, I couldn't even finish walking 18 holes of golf (shortness of breath and tingling/pain down arms) and I can do that in my sleep - at least I used to! Went to my Dr on Monday. EKG was normal but we scheduled a nuclear stress test for Friday. Before getting to the test, Wednesday night I woke up in the middle of the night with pretty bad chest pressure. Wrote that off to horrible indigestion. NOT!
Started the resting part of the test on Friday and my doctor came as scheduled for the stress test portion. He'd wanted me in the hospital Thursday after describing my symptoms from Wednesday night to his assistant. Didn't because by that time on Thursday afternoon I was feeling 'ok'. He said on Friday he was uncomfortable with me doing the stress test at all and suggested we walk over to the hospital immediately to have an angioplasty. He'd already spoken to a cardiologist I listened to him! I've been seeing him for over 20 years and really do trust him, even if I'm a stubborn SOB! Wisked thru ER to the cardio cath lab for the procedure and the found the problem.
Happy that the heart attacks weren't huge ones and the heart muscle still looks reasonably good from the echocardiogram.
Gang - I was stubborn admitting the symptoms I knew and recognized and feel fortunate the heart attacks weren't more severe and damaging. I'm damn glad to be hear telling my story.
Do not ignore:
1. heavy chest pressure/pain
2. tingling/pain down left arm especially and even the right
3. shortness of breath
4. sudden sweats
5. nausea.
I had all but the nausea.
I'm going to SnT and wheeling doctors orders.
