OT: Beware!
03-15-2006, 01:58 PM
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OT: Beware!
Saturday morning I was just finishing my morning bike ride when I had a bad heart attack. Plaque got loose and blocked one artery completely. It was a bit touch and go for a while. But thankfully the quick thinking of my wife and some smart medics got me sorted, and now I have a shiny new stent in one of my arteries. (the other two were shiny clean). My diet was good, my chlorestorol levels were fine, a previous stress test showed up nothing, I run up several flights of stairs etc. I'm now back home getting adjusted to a little more careful eating and exercising regime. But if you're of a certain age and haven't had a good check over recently I would urge you to do so. From personal experience the alternative is really not very pleasant!
03-15-2006, 02:02 PM
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Gosh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you are getting better soon! This is really tough stuff. There was a thread here a while ago about somebody's friend (Porsche driver, too) who died at age 40 a few weeks after his daughter was born.
Again, I really hope you feel better soon.
Again, I really hope you feel better soon.
03-15-2006, 02:19 PM
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Le Chef - Man, that is scary! I am sorry to hear about that! I am very glad that they got to you quickly. One just never knows what the next day will bring... glad to hear you are recuperating well!
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03-15-2006, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Soulteacher
Gosh, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you are getting better soon! This is really tough stuff. There was a thread here a while ago about somebody's friend (Porsche driver, too) who died at age 40 a few weeks after his daughter was born.
Hope your recovery is swift Le Chef. Sometimes it takes a real jolt like this to get us to stop and smell the roses and be thankful for all that we've got!
03-15-2006, 03:15 PM
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OMG Chef. I hope you are doing well.
That is pretty unusual to have a negative stress test and normal cholesterol,...and then to have an MI - Wow...I guess you were the unlucky one when it comes to the sensitivity of these common tests.
Again, I wish you and your stent my best.
-dave
That is pretty unusual to have a negative stress test and normal cholesterol,...and then to have an MI - Wow...I guess you were the unlucky one when it comes to the sensitivity of these common tests.
Again, I wish you and your stent my best.
-dave
03-15-2006, 03:19 PM
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I hear you Chef. One of my best friends from Munich, Germany passed away at age 41 left a wife and kid behind. Horrible thing his heart just went on him.
Feel better and take it easy.
Feel better and take it easy.
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03-15-2006, 04:03 PM
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OMG. Glad you are okay. One of my friends did a 70 mile group ride on Sunday (we ride road bikes)and found out on Monday morning that another member of the group died from a massive heart attack Sunday night after the ride. Very scary.
03-15-2006, 06:15 PM
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Amazing isn't it?
You work hard, get to a place where you can enjoy it a little and...
I get on the elliptical and rower very regularly and on occasion I feel something in my L 5th dermatome as well. I've had everthing short of a squirt and all is great. Hope I don't do what you did. Stay off that damn bicycle!!! Screws up you peroneal nerves, makes you impotent (impotent, not important) and you'll get your a$$ run over by some screwball in a sports car or a soccer mom while she's cell-phoning, Starbucks drinking and breaking up a fight in the back seat.
Seems like a lot of MD's on this list (I'm so suprised, NOT)
On the light side, Le Chef, where is your restraunt?
You work hard, get to a place where you can enjoy it a little and...
I get on the elliptical and rower very regularly and on occasion I feel something in my L 5th dermatome as well. I've had everthing short of a squirt and all is great. Hope I don't do what you did. Stay off that damn bicycle!!! Screws up you peroneal nerves, makes you impotent (impotent, not important) and you'll get your a$$ run over by some screwball in a sports car or a soccer mom while she's cell-phoning, Starbucks drinking and breaking up a fight in the back seat.
Seems like a lot of MD's on this list (I'm so suprised, NOT)
On the light side, Le Chef, where is your restraunt?
03-15-2006, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by allegretto
On the light side, Le Chef, where is your restraunt?
My "handle" is a nickname derived from my last name that a colleague corrupted when I was working in Milan. He used it more as an expletive as the car I was driving him in was heading into ARMCO faster than he would have liked...
03-15-2006, 08:15 PM
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OMG! 
I do hope you're doing well and family is OK.
This is exactly why I ordered my "P" car! You just don't know what can happen!
I wanted this before something like what happened to you comes my way or worse. If I didn't do this now, then when?
Please take it easy, and keep us posted on how you're doing!
Best Wishes,
Deanski
I do hope you're doing well and family is OK.This is exactly why I ordered my "P" car! You just don't know what can happen!
I wanted this before something like what happened to you comes my way or worse. If I didn't do this now, then when?
Please take it easy, and keep us posted on how you're doing!
Best Wishes,
Deanski
03-15-2006, 08:57 PM
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Glad to read that you lived Le Chef. Damn, close though.
One of these days, as soon as GE decides to push it harder, Electron Beam Computed Tomography for the heart, commonly known as a "heart scan" is going to become more popular. It's available right now but not common enough. Produces a 3D, slice by slice view of the heart and it's support vessels. Plaque shows up as clear as day. You might want to seek it out.
GE bought the company that pioneered it, Imatron, a couple years back.
One of these days, as soon as GE decides to push it harder, Electron Beam Computed Tomography for the heart, commonly known as a "heart scan" is going to become more popular. It's available right now but not common enough. Produces a 3D, slice by slice view of the heart and it's support vessels. Plaque shows up as clear as day. You might want to seek it out.
GE bought the company that pioneered it, Imatron, a couple years back.
03-15-2006, 10:58 PM
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Tomography
Originally Posted by JohnnyNarcosis
Electron Beam Computed Tomography for the heart, commonly known as a "heart scan" is going to become more popular. It's available right now but not common enough. Produces a 3D, slice by slice view of the heart and it's support vessels. Plaque shows up as clear as day.
Many thanks for the information!