Wanted to explain my sudden absence.
First, thanks to those who reached out in DM's. I'm very grateful.
Okay, here goes.....
On August 11 I was heading to my little Italian social club in my childhood neighborhood as I do evey Friday.
My brother wanted to go to the liquor store, I told him I had to go to the bathroom so he dropped me off at the McDonalds in the same plaza.
As soon as I got back to the parking lot it felt like a 1000 pound anvil was dropped on my chest, and I couldn't breathe, I thought it was a panic attack that I get but this time I was also sweating.
My brother pulls up, sees the deep shit I'm in and decides to take me to the local small hospital thankfully only about five minutes away.
They hook me up to an EKG, and the doctor sais he didn't like the way it looked but he couldn't tell if it was a heart attack or just heart spasms from a panic attack.
At my request, they transferred me to the best hospital in the city of Pittsburgh, where my PCP and all the doctors I see are based out of.
Another EKG and then a CT scan. Doctor tells me I have four blockages. Two small ones that made their own passages, one average sized one, but one was 90% blocked so they send me to the stent ward and wanted to try to fix them using the balloons. One problem, the 90% blockage was in a tricky spot so they stopped, they didn't want to take the risk right then and there.
After consulting with three doctors? They all agreed that quad bypass was the best route to take.
So three days later? That's what they did.
What is usually a five hour operation was instead a 7 hours plus procedure. Reason being they really had to dig to look for suitable veins to replace the ateries with. They finally got them. But my right leg looks like a road map at this point.
The doc who operated told me they accomplished eveything they set out to do, and the operation was a success.
I spent the next two weeks in the hospital waiting for a bed to become available at a rehab facility, but it wasn't happening so after those two weeks I decided I wanted to go home and then have at home PT and a nurse visit me one day a week for two months.
And that's what I've been doing at home for the last two weeks.
Amazing part? My heart itself according to the doctors is "solid and strong", it was only the arteries that was causing the issue. I'm really not in any pain except when I cough.
So now I'm going to change my diet, start working out again, and take advantage of this second chance that my Uncle at 46, and my Dad at 61, who both died from heart attacks, didn't get. I'm 53 btw....
I promise I won't let them down.
Once again thanks to those who reached out, I won't let you down either.
C~
Edited by Crash7, 13 September 2023 - 04:29 AM.
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