Wow. Sorry to hear that. On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 7:58 AM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote:
> Last Monday (13th) afternoon, I messaged my wife saying that I felt weird > in the upper chest and my shoulder blades ached. I couldn't really get more > specific. As I checked off a few of the COVID boxes, I went Monday > afternoon for a COVID test. > > Monday night, it was very difficult to sleep on my sides, due to an > increasing pressure in my chest. Usually, I can only sleep on my sides. > Laying on my back (once I could fall asleep) seemed to be fine. > > Tuesday I had a slight pressure, but felt like a walk in the park compared > to Monday night. The COVID tests came back at the end of the day Tuesday. > Negative. I then scheduled a doctor visit for Wednesday morning to diagnose > whatever was going on. > > Tuesday night I slept in the recliner. Other than the recliner being much > less comfortable than the bed, due to the incline I was able to sleep much > better. > > Wednesday is my 38th birthday. > > Wednesday morning I go to the doctor appointment. I explain my symptoms > and answer a battery of questions. They perform an EKG and everything > checks out fine. He orders some blood tests from the hospital next door as > sort of a hail Mary. Depending on the blood tests, I'd either have to go to > the ER for a stress test or schedule a stress test for some time over the > next few days. > > I go take those, go to a grocery store, go to Target, go home. I'm home > about 10 - 15 minutes when I get a call from the doctor's office advising > me to get a ride to the ER. There was no sense of urgency, so I drove my > brother's truck from my parents farm (right next door to me) to the hay > field he was working in. He gave me a ride to the hospital. I brought my > laptop with as I expected to have a lot of time sitting around for things > and that I wasn't in a health crisis. > > I got to the hospital at 11:11 AM. They were already there waiting for me, > had me sit in a wheel chair and then wheeled me into the ER. They inform me > that I had a heart attack in the past 1 to 2 days and they need to figure > out what's going on. More blood tests. Echo test (ultrasound of the heart), > which came back fine. > > They schedule me for an angiogram\angioplasty so they can get in there and > see what's going on. It should take about an hour to check it out and an > hour to repair whatever's wrong, if it's easily repaired. I was in for just > over an hour. I had 100% blockage in one of my arteries, so they put a > stent in. > > I was out of the hospital by 11:30 AM on Thursday, so just barely over 24 > hours after arriving. > > > Most of my heart-related blood tests were normal: > Total Cholesterol: 144 (0 - 199 mg/dL) > Triglycerides: 159 (0 - 150 mg/dL) > HDL: 24 (23 - 92 mg/dL) > LDL: 88 (0 - 99 mg/dL) > Non-HDL: 120 > Col/HDL Ratio: 6.0 > Sodium: 137 (136 - 145 mEq/L) > C Reactive Protein 8.77 (0.00 - 10.00 mg/L) > > > So it'd be nice to get the HDL up a little and the triglycerides down a > little. The others would be nice to tweak a little bit as well, but nothing > terrible. > > > Oh, here is the test that wasn't normal: > > > Troponin I , High Sensitivity: 7,136.4 (0.0 - 20.0 pg/mL) > > > > It's a genetic thing on my dad's side. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *ch...@wbmfg.com > *To: *"AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Sent: *Wednesday, July 22, 2020 2:08:03 PM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] OT bored > > Wow, details? I worry about that every time I get light headed. > > *From:* Mike Hammett > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:50 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT bored > > I must have missed Jaime's problem. > > I had a heart attack last week. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *ch...@wbmfg.com > *To: *af@af.afmug.com > *Sent: *Wednesday, July 22, 2020 11:00:53 AM > *Subject: *[AFMUG] OT bored > > Feeling empathy for Jaime. I jumped from the top hand rail of my scissors > lift to floor of the basket a few days ago. Plumbing up some new natural > gas pipes to my new natural gas /electric steam cleaner. Now my herniated > disks are all messed up again. So can’t do anything. Bored out of my > gourd. I have finally proven to my self that I just cannot jump down from > things anymore. The most crazy painful back events came from 1) Jumping > off of a 6’ stone wall about 6 years ago. 2) Jumping off the back of a > semi flat bed about a year ago. And now this. So, as much as I want to > act 20 years old, I guess jumping off or down is something that is not on > the menu anymore. Hopefully skiing is not going to start to become a > problem. > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Lewis Bergman 325-439-0533 Cell
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