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clevermanka) wrote2012-07-18 09:17 am
clevermanka) wrote2012-07-18 09:17 am
That's not how it's supposed to go
On Saturday, my dad passed out while he was driving. Wrecked the car, but nobody (including him) was hurt. The hospital kept him overnight for observation, and because they wanted to do a heart stress test on him in the morning. He failed the stress test, which means there was an 80% chance that his heart had a blockage. So they kept him another night so they could do a scope to look at his heart. Turns out he has two narrowed arteries, and they kept him another night (that brings us up to last night) so they could put in stents.
Being cooped up in a hospital for four nights puts him at a higher risk for heart attack than much of anything else, IMO. Daddy is not someone who can sit around and do nothing. He must be about to go crazy.
Nobody in my family has ever died from a heart attack. We all die from strokes (or, in three exceptions, being hit by a train, one incident of black lung in the case of my paternal great-grandfather, and my maternal great-grandfather who just got tired of living so laid down and died). So this is all very unexpected. Heart disease? What? You're messing up the family traditions, Daddy. Stop it.
I've always said that my father has the best luck of anyone in the world. My opinion hasn't changed. The cardiologist believes that when his heart stopped because of the blockages, that's what caused him to pass out. When he passed out, he lost control of the car, which hit something hard enough to deploy the airbags. The airbag hit him in the chest hard enough to re-start his heart, which is why he is alive.
Oh, in case you made the effort to stitch your heart back together (narrowed arteries or no) after yesterday's Sherlock vid, here's a different one to re-shred it.
You're welcome.
Being cooped up in a hospital for four nights puts him at a higher risk for heart attack than much of anything else, IMO. Daddy is not someone who can sit around and do nothing. He must be about to go crazy.
Nobody in my family has ever died from a heart attack. We all die from strokes (or, in three exceptions, being hit by a train, one incident of black lung in the case of my paternal great-grandfather, and my maternal great-grandfather who just got tired of living so laid down and died). So this is all very unexpected. Heart disease? What? You're messing up the family traditions, Daddy. Stop it.
I've always said that my father has the best luck of anyone in the world. My opinion hasn't changed. The cardiologist believes that when his heart stopped because of the blockages, that's what caused him to pass out. When he passed out, he lost control of the car, which hit something hard enough to deploy the airbags. The airbag hit him in the chest hard enough to re-start his heart, which is why he is alive.
Oh, in case you made the effort to stitch your heart back together (narrowed arteries or no) after yesterday's Sherlock vid, here's a different one to re-shred it.
You're welcome.
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I did not inherit that gene from him, alas.
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I like that. I like it when good things randomly happen to good people all the time.