Hello Joyce,your enquiry makes me think back on the first ischaemic
attack.It was so sneaky, just left the boat and was walking up a gentle
slope to my car,when I got this sort of pain in the jaw then my chest went
tight.When I got in the car I got O.K.
That was in august2001.On Christmas morning I had it again. this time I went
down and out.I came to in re-sus and my heart was doing 138 pm,syst was 200
and dia was 102.They cardioverted me for the first time of three,not
electricaly,by Injection. I felt
I was freefalling without air,then IT was over.Third time I had gone to bed
after a big supper,at about three o'clock I woke up with two sumo wrestlers
on my chest,heart rate way up and a terrible pain in my right arm,jaw and
chest.I got out of bed and just remember calling my wife,and I was gone.Iwas
out cold for two days falling and coming back upto bright lights.The doc
told me
I had an enlarged left ventricle.and that they had done a little surgery on
me .They sure had ,I looked like a stitched up salmon .I had another one
this March,not such a big deal,cause Im not so scared now. Well you did
ask.God Bless
----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Westphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:36 AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Winter Blues
> Anthony, anyone who has survived four heart attacks is someone whom I look
> up to in awe. Do you think that your love of fishing had anything to do
with
> your survival? Did it help/hinder in any way? Inquiring minds want to
know,
> if this isn't too personal a question. (I"m a nurse and so this sort of
> question is always one I want to ask survivors)> Joyce
>
>
