Survival is great!
Hi, I wasn't sure about this sharing but if it can do some good, here goes. In '98 I found that I had trouble mowing the lawn and was always glad that there was a chair to sit on when I climbed one long staircase to get to work. I found myself taking antacids atleast three at a time in order to finish the mowing. My daughter asked me why I was huffing anf puffing walking from the car to the diningroom. In '99, I did not do well on my stress or tilt table tests so the doctor set up a heart catheterization for December 1, 1999.
I was very interested to see the action of my heart and the doctor explained everything to me. He told me that I needed to have an operation within the next 2 or 3 days so I assumed that I'd check in that Thursday or Friday. Wrong! The next thing I knew was that an ambulance was taking me to another hospital and 2 days later I would be having surgery. As my mother told me later, first the surgeon said that I would be the recipient of a double by-pass,
then he came out and said that a triple by-pass would be necessary and I finally recovered from a quadruple by-pass operation. I let the professionals handle everything and tell me what to do until I finally realized that it was my body and I needed to know what was going on. For instance, I was not told that I needed to drink a great deal of water so that my daily blood test would go OK. I also was given "cumidin" and then a book (actually booklet) and decided that I would get off it ASAP.
On my first appointment with my cardologist, he remarked that they had me on that rat poison so I very quickly wanted to get off it. I should point out here that I did let the pro's tell me what I could do and couldn't do and always had to have words with my cardiologist as far as reducing any medication was concerned. TIME has certainly helped because by having successful blood and stress tests as well as echo cardiograms and a good recovery, I do a great deal more now (like cutting the lawn) and found
that my strength is just as good as it was and my stamina too. My advice is to listen to the doctor but always remember that it's your body. Know the meds that are being prescribed and what they do as well as their strength.
Regards,
Stan
From:
Stan Dynia - stan11779@yahoo.com
