I know just what you mean, Tracy. Teo and a half years ago, around midnight on February 12, in honor of Lincoln's Birthday, I started having deep pain in my right shoulder (left was okay), some chest pressure and broke into a cold sweat. It passed in 15 minutes so I went to sleep instead of to the hospital. I'm lucky I didn't, as they say, "wake up dead" because when I did awake, at 5 am, the pain, pressure and sweats were back. I laid in bed, not wanting to wake up my wife, and then I remembered a line from an Anthony Hopkins movie that "most people who are lost and die in the woods die of embarrassment." I woke my wife, called 911 and we were off to the hospital.
Six weeks later, after quintuple bypass surgery including my "widow maker," pneumonia complications and a two week medically induced coma (during which I was hallucinating that I was in a hospital in the Bahamas) and inpatient rehab learning to walk again, I came home and kissed my front door. I would have kissed the ground like a Dostoyevsky character but, you know, I had to observe "sternal precautions."
Two and a half years later, I still am grateful and feel that way every single day.
Good life and health to you.
Ira
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Ira Reid
Hoboken NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-22-2020 09:52
From: Tracy Rhodes
Subject: Three Month Anniversary...
Three months ago at this time, I was having a heart attack. It had started at around 2:30 in the morning.....and by this time of the day I was still stubbornly refusing to go to the hospital, telling myself it was anything BUT a heart attack. Denial really ain't just a river in Egypt, lol. Since it turned out to be the "widow maker", I'm feeling pretty lucky to be here today....
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Tracy Rhodes
Charleston SC
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