Mended Hearts Open Forum

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Brett:

I was typing on my iPhone and it must have sent before I finished.  I am glad to hear you are home from the hospital.   I hope you get better soon!

I think just going get everything I can get my hands on and let someone I know review it.  He is a physician.  He has expressed some concern about my care which I why I switched cardiologist.

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Brett:

I was typing on my iPhone and it must have sent before I finished.  I am glad to hear you are home from the hospital.   I hope you get better soon!

I think just going get everything I can get my hands on and let someone I know review it.  He is a physician.  He has expressed some concern about my care which I why I switched cardiologist.

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Thanks Victor,  actually it was more relief (I imagine others might feel the same) after it was done.  I got more stressed as I discovered more information afterwards.  My wife did not tell me about the conversation with the interventional cardiologist for two months, my cardiologist only stated that I must be "tough" to endure the stress my heart was under during my follow-up visit a week later.  I only found out through my health insurance claims that it was an emergency.  The seriousness of what happened did not catch up with me until I told a physician I know and he said I was fortunate I did not go straight into surgery.  Now, my new cardiologist throws that question out there, I cannot help but think there is something somebody does not want to tell me.

Learning this way has created more angst than anything else.  Which is unfortunate because people won't the care they need if they question the transparency of the process.  Also, it weighs down on any confidence I have in my care.  

So I do not know if information is being kept from me or is this some way of not making me worry.  

This must have been a very stressful procedure for you. "My wife tells me the door (doctor) came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning."

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike

Hi Mike,

The most important things I've learned since CABG are to be thankful for what I have and to just look forward. I've also seen that it's near impossible to get any information after leaving the cath lab.

You may never be able to find out the details about what happened that day, but have you tried asking for a cath lab report from the hospital? 

Happy holidays to you and your family! 

I had my first appointment with a new cardiologist.  As he was going through my chart, he asked me if I had a attack heart during my stent placement three years ago.

My response was I was never told this, so I also asked, "you tell me?"   He did not answer and then asked me if I had passed out during the procedure.  As he mentioned it, I remember having "the lights go out" so the speak during my time in the cath lab.  I was awakened during the procedure...I remember seeing a staff person looking down at me with her hands out near each each side of my head.  I heard really loud noise and then the doctor yelled, "I need you to breathe"...I took a breath and remember lights went out again, and I was awakened when it was over.  

No one mentioned anything.  My wife tells me the door came out of the lab with an excited tone telling her he was shocked I managed to even walk into the hospital that morning.  One stent and three other arteries were worked on with no stents as they would not have helped.  He tells her I could have died in the lab, but he never spoke to me.

Anyway, I have gone through a frustrating process of trying to get a complete picture of what happened.  When I asked my previous cardiologist about my ST-T wave inversion, he was dismissive about it, but a couple of doctors I spoke to express some concern...but no committal statements or explanations. 

Any thoughts about this would be greatly welcomed.  

Mike