Monday, October 15

SO, I did not die......

It has been three weeks, and things are getting back to normal. Sunday morning, Sept 23rd I woke up with chest pain. After a couple of minutes I realized that this was more than just something simple. I woke Suzette who went right into action. We were dressed and out the door very quickly. The Hospital is about seven or eight blocks away, and she ran three red lights. She got me to the ER within twenty minutes of the first chest pain. The activity was a blur. They wheeled me in and did a catheterization, putting a stent into the artery that was ninety percent blocked. (they call this artery the Widow Maker...) By 9.00am I was in a room and recovering. They kept me overnight, and when the original tests showed that I had little or no damage to my heart, they let me go home. I took the rest of that week off and went back to work the following Monday. I signed up for the six week Cardiac Rehab program, and I have been watching every bite of food I eat. I did the stress test last week and this verified that there was no damage. Suzette's quick action saved my life. I have my follow up appointment with my Cardiologist tomorrow, and I am gradually getting my life back to normal. I have cut back my work schedule from the sixty or seventy hour weeks to a more reasonable forty five or so, and I am working on getting things back to normal. It is good to bee here.....

5 comments:

Sonya said...

That must have been scary. Thank goodness for your quick-thinking wife. I'm so glad you're okay. Rest!

vq said...

Oh my goodness, Pete! Thank goodness for Sunflower! And how fantastic that you found out about this blockage in a non-fatal way and it's all fixed now!

sheila222 said...

Ditto to all of the above.

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UrbanStarGazer said...

Wow! Thank goodness on all counts! That "golden hour" makes all the difference in the world, they say.