ZAPPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

big tee

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Not one to talk about my health on this forum but I saw tractor in the field on the way home. Yesterday I spent most of the day in the hospital in Waterloo Ia. I have a family history of bad hearts. My Dad and several uncles have died of heart attacks and my Mom also had a history of heart problems. I had a 4 bypass heart operation 8 years ago so they keep a close watch on me. I went for a check-up last Friday and they didn't like some of the results and suggested I have the procedure where they run a catheter up the vein in your arm to your heart. They want you awake but put you in La-La land. I thought I was fully awake until I felt the dye go up my arm and I could feel weird things in my chest and all of a sudden ZAP. Wow-they said my heart reacted to the oxygen free dye in a bad way. I thought I was only in the operating for 10 min but the wife said I was in there an hour. When they took the adhesive sensors off my chest 2 of them came off hard-they were the ones that they sent 100000 jigawatts through me and the nurses all came over to see how bad I got burned--just red. Results looked fair-have to be on nitro pills the rest of my days, so if you need any stumps blowed, let me know. The X-rays are from 8 years ago and hang on my shop wall. They show the staples and the wire that hold me together. That's all, sorry to bore you but have time on hands today, supposed to take it easy....----Tee
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My wife had quadruple bypass 14 years ago. I kidded her about being baling wired together.

She has/had 6 older brothers, and of the seven siblings only one brother hasn't had heart problems.
 
We saw 1 guy in the field on the way home. He was disking fall chiseled corn stalks-was no dust flying. Thanks---Tee
 
How does that Hank Williams Jr. song go?---It's a family tradition. Had my bypass in Feb. Neighbors wanted to plant my crops for me, I was too dumb or proud--said "I'm alright" broke some of my chest wires. Was on Blue Cross and had $2500 deductible. Held off until between Christmas and New Year so I could use the same deductible to get them fixed. NO FOOL LIKE AN OLD FOOL!---Tee
 
Yes, can be a family thing. like collecting tractors & JFYI, Hereditary Hemochromotosis is a family thing and mostly unknow because testing for it was removed from 'routine blood tests' in 1997/8.(by Fed Gov) It means your body retains iron, to the point of overload. First damage is to liver and/or heart. fact is, many men and a few woman can succumb to a heart attack or liver failure and it's called a 'heart attack' ! No blood test ! and could have been iron overload. It bothers me that this goes on, there correction is very simple.. no meds, just remove blood weekly until iron level is normal... then watch your iron intake. Drinking tea, esp with meals, will aid in flushing iron on out. google it. I have HHC. both my 'iron regulating' genes are defective. Thanks to the Vikings from Norway.....
It's traced back to them spreading the bad genes. If your ancestors are from Scotland, Ireland, England coast. GET tested !
 
My dad died of a heart attack at 49, one brother at 46, another at 62, another had bypasses 10 or 15 years before he died in heart surgery at 78. I was a nervous wreck after the first brother died and tried all the doctors dietary advice where you don't eat anything good. After a year or two of that I said screw it and went back to all my bad habits but take a slug of pills and still chugging along. Glad you came through procedure ok.
 
Seams that we share more than the CBS paint booth. I was supposed to go in for similar operation after they put me on the dynamometer at the hospital. My oil pressure started dropping at max power. They scheduled me for catheterization into my heart back on the 11th, but I had to cancel it because the wifey was out in Arizona, and there was no one here to drive me home, or stay with me for 24 hrs. after, so It was rescheduled for next Friday, the 28th. Seams that my suction line is collapsing and restricting my oil flow to my pump. They are hoping to put more stints into me to fix the problem. They already put some in when I had my heart attacks a year back. I have been dependent on morning and evening nitro pills ever since, and carry the little hot nitro pills for emergencies.
Hope you have a speedy recovery and can get back at it.
Loren
PS is that your 1370 and 930 parts listed in the photo adds on this site??
 
Yes to the parts. Thanks Loren. Feeling tuff today. they say it takes awhile for the dye to work its way out of ya. I asked my wife and daughters if the lights blinked in the recovery room when they zapped me. In the old prison movies the condemned killer and the preacher would be sitting together before the guy went to the chair and the lights would blink and dim when the guards would check to see if the chair was working. Good luck to you Loren----Tee
 
Next month it will be 2 years since my heart attack. Don't want to do that again, it hurt. Good luck with your upcoming procedure.
 
Some folks are allergic to the dye, my Mom was one of those, looks like you are too. Glad you're on the mend. Just be glad they don't charge extra for the electricity used. But then again don't they charge every penny they can anyway?
 
They gave me two shots of radioactive dye when they did my stress test. $3,600.oo per shot. The bill for my stress test 2 weeks ago was a bit under $17,000.oo bucks. Things are out of whack for medical care. That did include a ham & cheese sandwich, coffee, and applesauce though, as I was there past the noon hour.

Loren
 
I knew I was allergic to the dye before they did the heart thing on me.

Dr. put me on some meds the day before and I had no problems...can't remember all the meds, but one of them was good old benadryl.

Fred
 

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