Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Ric Carter wrote: > CRAP! We're going to make you swear off politics! > > now, you owe us details. > > get better quickly Interesting Ric - nothing seems very important since the event EXCEPT: family, friends, and breathing ;~) Details: Saturday: 9 am - Morning shower 9:15 am - choking, feeling like can't breath, tightness in chest radiating up into jaw and out to shoulders = Heart Attack toss robe over wet body - take 3 80 mg aspirin and google - mild heart attack symptoms 10:00 am - Decide I'm having a heart attack, wake up Erin and drive to emergency. EKG, blood pressure, nitro glycerin under the tongue, IV mounted in right arm, blood drawn from left arm morphine into the IV, lots of questions, chest exray 11:55 am - SELF PORTRAIT (even though exif says 12:55 - apparently never set for Daylight Saving) The rest of saturday afternoon, and night, blood tests, nitro patches, drugs and tylenol for the headache produced by the nitro. 5:30 - 6:00 - starting to feel sort of normal. Enzyme and protein numbers - coming back as rising - confirming heart attack Sunday: 7:30 am - meet cardiologist 9:00 am - Catheterization - stent in left coronary artery (95 % blocked) 11:00 am - in ICU - drugged - dozing - visitors - more blood drawn - more drugs Monday: Just working on "getting the hell out of Dodge" 4 pm - released with a large packet of information - 4 prescriptions to fill and setting up an appointment for the next Stent procedure in a couple weeks. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist