It was from one day to the next
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Originally Posted by
rbaker
I hear you, brother. My wife and I are both 75 and we seldom have a day without an appointment with one quack or another. At least, here in the USA we don't have to wait 16 years for a referral like our poor Canadian friends (with the exception of the poor souls in the VA system.)
from a poor Canadian ............
This time of the year, five years ago I had an Angiogram done, and when I was waking up i heard the doctor shout "this guy is no f..... good, he
is is going to need a quintuple by-pass.
I got rolled back to the room and my cardiologist came visiting and said tomorrow is the start of the jewish holidays and we have some cancellations, would you like to have it done tomorrow morning at 8. I said ok lets do it.
All afternoon and evening I had to run around the hospital for tests.
It ended up being a double by-pass fix. The following day at 1 in the afternoon I was starting my recuperation all wired up among some other recently done patients.
So i I did not wait sixteen years. It was from one day to the next without being an emergency, for open heart surgery.
2 month ago my Cardiologist said "maybe we should put in a pacemaker, let me talk to one of the surgeons. 2 weeks later I got a call from the hospital giving me an appointment another 2 weeks later. I walked in at that date at 930 am got done an hour later and walked out by 12.30 all fixed up with an installed pacemaker.
By the way I never had to pay one cent for anything.
I could never sleep sitting up, but now I can
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Originally Posted by
obxeyeguy
Now about 6 weeks out, still hurt big time, as I'm sure Chris can attest to, but doing OK. I don't recommend trying this, it's not fun. See the symptoms, do something. I dodged my second bullet in my life, and during the angio, the cardiologist said I would have never made it to the hospital if I had the full heart attack, not a nice thought.
I am glad you made it. I also found out that it changes the whole life style.
I could never sleep sitting up, but now I can, I have learned the hard way.
I can go to bed the normal way, but wake up a few hours later and have to sit on the edge of the bed for 5 to 10 minutes. It all repeats itself. So I started to get upstairs to my home office and start working on some things. When I get tired I can now lean back and have some sleep for a few hours.
Every time we have something serious we have to adapt with what is left from normal times. I already learned 24 years ago, that the operation was successful, but I was going to dye within the next 5 to 8 month because the upper intestine was perforated and had leaked the cancerous cells all over the intestinal cavity. I am still under observation all these years because I am apparently the only survivor world wide, and they claim that it was due to pure will power and not medical art.
Just find out what is best for you and do it.