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 13, 2012, at 12:37 PM, George Lottermoser wrote: > > 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 thought I'd mention George, the fact that hot showers can bring out the symptoms of a heart attack. So when we corresponded, you had mentioned that. It made me feel the likelihood of an MI was higher. Heat, vasodilation, need for increase'd cardiac output to maintain normal blood pressure, so quite a bit more demand/stress on the heart...if the heart is healthy, then no problem, but...... I suspect there was a connection, so best to avoid hot showers and baths for a while, especially now. Sounds like your judgement to seek attention was correct and timely, damn you are a lucky man, you should do well. I sure expect so, we need you back here, I would like to use your self portrait on the leica site, is that OK? Steve > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information