| JULY 27, 2004 Around 12:30AM, I started experiencing chest pain. I took 3 sprays of sublingual Nitro as directed with just a little relief. I decided to go to bed in hopes, I would be feeling better the next morning. Around 2AM, I woke with more pain and decided I needed to go to the emergency room. I was placed on a Nitro and Heparin drip and admitted to the cardiac floor. My blood pressure ranged between 90/70 and 70/50 with my pulse normally ranging between 47 and 53. July 28, 2004 They did another cardiac cath and found an 80% blockage but they can't reach it due to the placement of another stent. It is a bit hard to explained but let's just say I have a horizontal stent extending into a vertical artery and they can't get past it to the blockage nor is there another way to it. I was told that if I continue experiencing weekly to near daily chest pain, I am at a 20 - 30% risk... of what, I don't know and if they attempted to try to stent the blockage that I was at a 30 -40% risk... again, of what, I don't know. The doctor decided they would try to treat me medically to handle the pain. They gave me Isosorbide 30MG q HS. I have an appointment on Tuesday with the head of the Heart and Vascular Center to discuss my options... whether to continue with the Isosorbide, attempt to stent the blockage or do open heart surgery. At this point, I am just not thinking about it. I will just cross that bridge later. Oh, and my Cholesterol is 148 and all lipids are WNL. |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot. I felt this song was a perfect selection
for this site because of the affiliation I feel with Grizabella. Although
for her,
it was age and not health issues that changed her, neither of us are who we
were before, on the outside, and it can affect how we feel on the inside.
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