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April
4,
2011 -- 8:40pm EDT
Heart Attack Stopped with a Stent
 I'm
working on at least six different articles about the many studies presented
at the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans yesterday and
today, from new stents to transradial vs. femoral access, etc. etc.
etc. and suddenly
all
of this is swept aside by an email that arrived in my Inbox seconds
ago, posting the following to the topic of Heart
Attack and Stents or Angioplasty on our Patients
Forum:
I had a heart attack at 3:00am this morning.
Wow that was scary. I had some minor tightness in my chest
all week and didn't really know what to think of it. Then at
3:00am I awoke to the sound of the rain outside my window.
I got up to put away a few things that the kids left out in
the rain and I broke into a very heavy cold sweat and started
gasping for air. I felt some tightness in my chest and fell
to the floor. I yelled for my wife to call 911 and to get me
the aspirin bottle. I took three aspirin and waited on the
floor for the ambulance. Fire trucks and ambo [ambulance] showed
up and gave me oxygen and nitroglycerin and put me in the back
of the ambo. In about ten minutes I was at the hospital. They
did some tests and gave me some more meds. Then I was in the
cath lab getting shaved for the procedure. All the while I'm
gasping for air. They put in a stent and I have been resting
since. I am meeting with the Cardiologist in the morning for
more details on what happened. Right now I am just happy to
be alive.
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Flyfishtom, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
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And that's what it's all about....
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