Wishing you the best of luck and that you’ll feel better soon. I can understand your concerns. I’m sure you’ll do well, just take it easy and don’t rush anything.
From: Daniel Rodriguez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: To All: Setback Update on my current conditon. As some of you know I had a 5-1/2 heart bypass done at the end of July of this year. I have been at home, and out of work, recuperating. Everything has been going great. I have been doing cardio-rehab for the past three weeks and had been looking forward to be release to go back to work. But something happenend this past Monday. I went to the cardiologist and he cleared me to go back to work on Monday morning. That afternoon, I started to have some heart palpitations. I told my wife about this. We both just concluded that I was just excited because I was going back to work. On Tuesday evening, I was going to make an apple pie, sugar free of course, and was proceeding to slice some granny smith apples. In the process I cut my middle finger on a mandolin slicer. It was pretty severe. So much so that I went to the emergency room to get it looked at. Well, when I cut my finger the palpitations came back, and more severe than on Monday afternoon. When I got to the emergency room I told them that I had had heart bypass and that I was currently having heart palpitations. They hooked me up to a heart monitor and they did not look pleased. It was showing that my heart was skipping a beat. They gave me three nitro tablets and that seemed to help. About an hour later the palpitations started again. This time they gave me nitro paste. They put this paste on a strip of tape and put it on my chest. Again, it helped but for only an hour and a half. (They did sew up my finger during this, got five stitches.) They finally gave me a nitro drip and that helped. They told me that they would have to transfer me to Norton in Louisville where I was admitted initially. So, I got to ride in an abulance. Problem was I was strapped to a gurney facing backwards and no siren. :( This was around 12:30am Wednesday morning. We got to the hospital and they got me up to TCU. Now, when I was at Harrison County Hospital they put two IV's in me, one in each arm. One of the IV's was the nitro drip, When I got to Norton hospital the connectioms on the IV's were different and they couldn't put in any other IV's It tooke them two hours to decide what to do. During this tiem I was still having heart palpitations and was coughing, even though there was notihng in my lungs, and I was feeling awful. Once they got the nitro drip reconnected they gave me about 2ml of morphine and I went to sleep. When I woke up, I got to eat breakfast, but this was tgoing to be the last meal for next 24 hours. After that mean I was NBO and couldn't even have ice chips. My cardiologist came in and said that he was going to do an examination in the cath lab that evening. If there were any serious issues he would let me know. I got to the cath lab around 4pm and was wheeled into the operating room around 6pm. I was awake during the whole process. I ened up geting three stints put into my heart. The sad part of it was that all three went into three of the grafts that were put into my heart during bypass. I have pictures of the before and after of the stint operation and there is noticable improvement of the vessels in my heart. I was released from the hospital on Friday afternoon and now have more meds to take than before. I will be out of work for another month, but I will still get to go to cardio. I just have to start from the beginning. So, this is an update on my stiuation. I do appreciate your concerns and prayers. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
