PCBeachBum
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After failing a stress test less than a month ago, I had another heart cath done. I was constantly asked if I had any heart pain and told them none at all. The stress test showed that I wasn't getting enough blood back into the heart and it was believed that the stents needed replacing.
The first one was done two days after getting the Spyder in 2009. I had pain in my right shoulder after getting off the phone and it started moving down my arm. I felt worse and than bad and before that, Tammy had called 911. I had 3 stents put in a day later after I was stable and when my cardiologist got the heart cath in this time, he found some thing he had never seen before. Going into the next room to look at pictures of the first heart cath, he came out and looked on the monitor again and found a whole new artery on the right side of the heart. The artery with the stents in it was no longer in my body.
I was told that he will come out to talk to you in a few minutes and while I waited, the nurse removed the heart cath. He did come out and told me what he found and doing some further checking he said this is very rare to find and the odds of this happening is 1 in a 1000 if not more. He said your now stent free and I want to see you in my office in July. For now, you will be taken back to the prep area and as soon as the meds wear off, you'll be out of here by 7:30. It was about 2 and had 5 hours to wait, so went to sleep.
I spent more time in the billing dept. than I did on the table and I'm not complaining. It will be a while till I can get back on the Spyder and that is sitting in my new mobile garage. A friend of mine had an enclosed trailer he wasn't using and after cleaning it out brought it over to my yard. I was keeping it in his warehouse but now since the door is blocked with a travel trailer it has been here under a cover. I still have pain under the right rib cage where the wire used in the heart cath entered after moving up my right side from my groin/thigh area and will wait till that is gone.
I just thought I would let you all know, that heart problems don't always happen on the left side only and you do have an artery on the right side, that is for the blood returning to the heart. When it happened in 2009, I never knew it could happen on the right side and be aware if you get a pain in the right shoulder and it starts moving down your arm, call 911 and don't think its nothing. Better to be safe than worse off, if not dead. I did have a heart attack in 2009 and died when they removed the heart cath in 2009. I felt nothing and knew nothing, until I was told the next night by the nurse that worked on me in CICU.
The first one was done two days after getting the Spyder in 2009. I had pain in my right shoulder after getting off the phone and it started moving down my arm. I felt worse and than bad and before that, Tammy had called 911. I had 3 stents put in a day later after I was stable and when my cardiologist got the heart cath in this time, he found some thing he had never seen before. Going into the next room to look at pictures of the first heart cath, he came out and looked on the monitor again and found a whole new artery on the right side of the heart. The artery with the stents in it was no longer in my body.
I was told that he will come out to talk to you in a few minutes and while I waited, the nurse removed the heart cath. He did come out and told me what he found and doing some further checking he said this is very rare to find and the odds of this happening is 1 in a 1000 if not more. He said your now stent free and I want to see you in my office in July. For now, you will be taken back to the prep area and as soon as the meds wear off, you'll be out of here by 7:30. It was about 2 and had 5 hours to wait, so went to sleep.
I spent more time in the billing dept. than I did on the table and I'm not complaining. It will be a while till I can get back on the Spyder and that is sitting in my new mobile garage. A friend of mine had an enclosed trailer he wasn't using and after cleaning it out brought it over to my yard. I was keeping it in his warehouse but now since the door is blocked with a travel trailer it has been here under a cover. I still have pain under the right rib cage where the wire used in the heart cath entered after moving up my right side from my groin/thigh area and will wait till that is gone.
I just thought I would let you all know, that heart problems don't always happen on the left side only and you do have an artery on the right side, that is for the blood returning to the heart. When it happened in 2009, I never knew it could happen on the right side and be aware if you get a pain in the right shoulder and it starts moving down your arm, call 911 and don't think its nothing. Better to be safe than worse off, if not dead. I did have a heart attack in 2009 and died when they removed the heart cath in 2009. I felt nothing and knew nothing, until I was told the next night by the nurse that worked on me in CICU.
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