Posted by glennster on January 21, 2013 at 04:43:11 from (99.90.9.201):
mark, i saw your question on my post about getting released yesterday, so i will give you a rundown as to what happened. i hope it will help others too. i am 55, 6ft2 and 200 lbs. pretty active, between the body shop, managing some rental propertys and the two farms, im on the go pretty much 7 days a week. i dont drink (tears up my stomach) eat pretty normal, drink coffee in the morning, then water and gatorade, ocassionally orangee juice. i have been a smoker since about 17, and switchhed to cigars about 15 years ago. last spring at the dentist she checks my blood pressure and it was a little high. not suprising as she is really pretty!!. bought a monitor from wallgreens and was keeping track during the day. sometimes high but pretty much normal. i figured the highs were just daily stresses at the shop. last fall at the urologist, they did the psa test, all normal, and my cholesteral. my bad cholesteral was good, but my good cholesteral was bad. so they said get more exercise and take fish oil vitamins. nothing really out of the ordinary. fast forward to lat thursday. had dinner at the mother in laws, baked chicken, veggies and mashed taters. also has a couple big helpings of pickled beets from the garden last year. . hadent had em in quite while, so they were a real treat. 3;30 am woke up with a major case of indigestion and profuse cold sweats. i figured either the beets didnt agree with me or i was getting the flu. got up had a glass of water and sat on the couch. had another couple glasses of water and took a couple aspirin. 4 am the sweating was getting worse and the pain in my stomach getting worse. woke up my wife and told her i was sick. she sat with me for about a half hour or so, i started getting dizzy. told her maybe we should go to the hospital. got there a little before 5:30 i guess, i was pretty dizzy by now. er nurse took one look at me, alarm went off, i got tossed on a gurney, people came out of the woodwork and i went flying down the hall. next thing i know, im laying on a table, stipped naked, wires tubes and needles stuck everywhere. heard them say heart attack. they gave me a shot of morphine and everything got swirly. i remember getting moved to another room, they shot some kind of dye in me, i got so cold i started shaking voilently. they put these giant hot blankets on me, then the doctor cut open the artery/vein in my groin on the right side and went in, rodded out a blockage (100%) on an artery on the lt front side of the heart. they also inserted a stent. 3mmx30mm. was out of surgery and back in my room by 7 am. i would of never guessed it was a heart attack, i always read about chest pains, radiating pain in the left arm, weakness in the hands, pain in the legs ect. the cardiologist told me, well no, it could be any symptoms. for women, it is usually lower back pain and stomach cramps. cardiologist also said it was very unusual i only had blockage in that one artery, everything else was clear. so now i have a bunch of pills i gotta take, diet restrictions, rehab therapy, cant do any heavy lifting for quite some time, no more cigars (cr*p) and carry a blood pressure monitor and nitroglycerine tablets with me. i never would of guessed i was a candidate for a heart attack because i was active, ate decent, didnt drink, use very little salt ect. go figure. sorry this post is so long, but if it helps any of you guys, that would be great. i for one dont ever want to go thru this again, and hope none of you guys ever have to either. thank you for all your support and prayers, glenn
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