So the last few days I’ve spent pretty much every waking hour in various units of several different local hospitals. While I was not the patient(s), and all turned out just fine, it was about as stressful as it gets.
After a nice dinner and movie at my Mom’s house with my brother and my wife and I we called it an evening and headed home around 8:00. We were watching TV around 10:00 when my younger brother came in the front door, looking wild eyed, panicked and speaking gibberish. We assumed it was a stroke, called 911 immediately and from the symptom’s onset to him being treated in the Emergency unit of the closest hospital specializing in Strokes was less than 30 minutes. Fortunately for him, at the moment, he is staying in his RV parked in my yard.
After tons of testing and treatments for a day and a half he was moved to a hospital specializing in cardio care where my mom was already scheduled for an angioplasty tuesday morning. He ended up with the same procedure monday and needed two stints to open a completely blocked artery. Mom’s came out much smoother, no blockages and “Kraffty’s Medical Transport” delivered them both home by late tuesday afternoon.
My brother is showing no adverse signs from either the heart attack or the Mini-stroke by some miracle, if anything he say’s he feels better than he has in the last year or so. Mom’s fine and ready for a week long family vacation at the end of the month and my wife and I are glad to be back in the office enjoying the stress free environment of work.
It’s certainly the typical “wake up call” you hear about, realizing it could happen to you, and even a better chance of it happening since it’s in your family history. While we don’t smoke and we eat very healthy 90% of the time, I guess I’ll have to take my exercise level up from “zero” to somewhere around “at least adequate” and start knocking off some of those extra 35lbs. that have mysteriously and suddenly appeared over the last 10 years.
Stay well everyone and kiss your family often!
Mike
After a nice dinner and movie at my Mom’s house with my brother and my wife and I we called it an evening and headed home around 8:00. We were watching TV around 10:00 when my younger brother came in the front door, looking wild eyed, panicked and speaking gibberish. We assumed it was a stroke, called 911 immediately and from the symptom’s onset to him being treated in the Emergency unit of the closest hospital specializing in Strokes was less than 30 minutes. Fortunately for him, at the moment, he is staying in his RV parked in my yard.
After tons of testing and treatments for a day and a half he was moved to a hospital specializing in cardio care where my mom was already scheduled for an angioplasty tuesday morning. He ended up with the same procedure monday and needed two stints to open a completely blocked artery. Mom’s came out much smoother, no blockages and “Kraffty’s Medical Transport” delivered them both home by late tuesday afternoon.
My brother is showing no adverse signs from either the heart attack or the Mini-stroke by some miracle, if anything he say’s he feels better than he has in the last year or so. Mom’s fine and ready for a week long family vacation at the end of the month and my wife and I are glad to be back in the office enjoying the stress free environment of work.
It’s certainly the typical “wake up call” you hear about, realizing it could happen to you, and even a better chance of it happening since it’s in your family history. While we don’t smoke and we eat very healthy 90% of the time, I guess I’ll have to take my exercise level up from “zero” to somewhere around “at least adequate” and start knocking off some of those extra 35lbs. that have mysteriously and suddenly appeared over the last 10 years.
Stay well everyone and kiss your family often!
Mike
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