On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 10:14, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 09 August 2019 07:59:07 Bob Crochelt wrote: > > > Gene, > > I’m scheduled for some heart rewiring myself. Good luck to the both of > > us! Bob Crochelt > > My heart guy is out of the country till around Sept 1. So I'm takeing an > extra half a 7.5gr warfarin pill a day to ward off another > clot/blockage. I've been taking the 7.5 since I survived a pulmonary > embolism about 5 years back but recent tests earlier this week had the > clot time below 2 and thats not good, needs more rat poison. If I get to > feeling bad I'll yell for a ride to Mon General in Morgantown about 60 > miles north who has several heart guys on staff. So all I'm doing is > the dishes and cooking for the two of us. Shop work is on hold. > > I'll have to get the next door neighbor to do that while I'm gone in that > event as the missus isn't ambulatory any more. Good neighbors, we share > wedding anniversaries, 30 for us on Dec 2nd, 41 for them. > > Pulmonary embolisms aren't fun, typical survival rate is less than 2%. > Sorta funny, when I was in Mon Gen before, thats a teaching hospital, > and the doc in charge of me that time always had an entourage of interns > along showing them that surviveing a P-E was possible. Made me feel like > a pet purple hamster or something. :) > > Putting in heparin by the gallon, I was up to make water at about 20 > minute intervals 24/7. Very poor sleep, and the room was too cold but I > jiggered the stat to fix that. One of the nurses started to fix it and I > flat told her if she was going to set it back down she could find me > blankets big enough and warm enough. What they had weren't much bigger > than a cloth diaper. 8 days. First time ever in a hospital. > > I lost nearly 20 lbs by the time I was home for 3 or 4 days & had a > chance to get rid of it. Legs blown up like phone poles. > > I had a pacemaker installed back in January, pulse was in the low 30's > when I walked in the ER door & said I thought I needed one, getting a > bit woozy in between heartbeats. They didn't argue with me a bit. I was > a "live one with an AARP plan F policy". ;-) > > Good luck with yours too Bob. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >
Thanks Gene. I’m “just” having an afib ablation. I used to live in Elkins, Mon General is great. My resting heart rate when not in afib is 49, so I may be joining you in the pacemaker club some day. Best wishes
