Calvin45
Well-Known Member
Just wanted to share with the community here something I'm thankful for. It's easy to only talk about what goes wrong but sometimes things go right even when it's all wrong.
Last week I got to stay at my dads for 3 nights, do some deer hunting, and enjoy visiting with my father. The whole time I was worried. He plainly wasn't well. But he had already seen the doctor and had tests
Done two months ago, didn't really know what else to do. Had lots of short of breath moments and feeling tired and sick. Figured it was just his high blood pressure getting out of hand.
On Tuesday my dad had a massive heart attack, of the variety commonly known as a "widowmaker".
We knew it was bad when he called my sister and straight up said "I'm not okay". He's never admitted that once in his life before. She rightly told him to hang up and call 911 NOW! (The ambulance driver told them when old farmers or hard industrial workers call 911 they take it extra serious cuz those guys just don't call for help).
They caught all this in time. He's gonna be okay. But that artery that's involved in widowmaker heart attacks was over 95 percent blocked by the time they put the stent in. Where he lives is half an hiur
To a hospital and 3 hours to a major one.
He came out of this with only 1/16 damage to his heart. If he had waited a few hours before calling he'd probably be dead or a vegetable but he's back to his old self again, hes got more spring in his step than he has the last 2 years and his face just looks brighter.
That's about as good as it's possible for something like this to go and I'm thankful. God is good. And so are people (it's easy to forget that, but there's a lot more good people out there than there are rotten ones, and he was treated just wonderfully by everyone responsible for his care throughout this).
He's 73 and the doc tells him now that they caught this and have a plan going forward he can expect to have good years ahead
Last week I got to stay at my dads for 3 nights, do some deer hunting, and enjoy visiting with my father. The whole time I was worried. He plainly wasn't well. But he had already seen the doctor and had tests
Done two months ago, didn't really know what else to do. Had lots of short of breath moments and feeling tired and sick. Figured it was just his high blood pressure getting out of hand.
On Tuesday my dad had a massive heart attack, of the variety commonly known as a "widowmaker".
We knew it was bad when he called my sister and straight up said "I'm not okay". He's never admitted that once in his life before. She rightly told him to hang up and call 911 NOW! (The ambulance driver told them when old farmers or hard industrial workers call 911 they take it extra serious cuz those guys just don't call for help).
They caught all this in time. He's gonna be okay. But that artery that's involved in widowmaker heart attacks was over 95 percent blocked by the time they put the stent in. Where he lives is half an hiur
To a hospital and 3 hours to a major one.
He came out of this with only 1/16 damage to his heart. If he had waited a few hours before calling he'd probably be dead or a vegetable but he's back to his old self again, hes got more spring in his step than he has the last 2 years and his face just looks brighter.
That's about as good as it's possible for something like this to go and I'm thankful. God is good. And so are people (it's easy to forget that, but there's a lot more good people out there than there are rotten ones, and he was treated just wonderfully by everyone responsible for his care throughout this).
He's 73 and the doc tells him now that they caught this and have a plan going forward he can expect to have good years ahead
