#2481: Friday, August 7, '20: Serious as a heart attack

Post 2481

- 9 years and 220 days since I started this blog -

  

  

Daily Comment

Before 2am this morning, I was feeling a slight malaise. Just low energy. At 2am, I felt a slight - and I mean really subtle - pins and needles feeling in my left shoulder. Then I felt that - very subtle - feeling move down my arm. I called my medical insurance's twenty-four hour hot line. After a short interview, she put me on with an MD. After I told him about my family history and my current symptoms (took about ninety seconds), he told me to call 911, and go to a hospital and have it checked out.

I called 911, they sent an ambulance. Not feeling ill at all, I changed my clothes, walked out to the street in front of my apartment complex, hailed the ambulance and was delivered to St. Joseph's hospital where they told me I had coronary blockage that would be checked with a cath-scope, and would unblock it and/or put in a stent if they could.

Instead, they found that a quintuple cardiac arterial bypass graft operation would need to be performed.

That was done the following Monday.

I am recovering unbelievably well, and am now enthroned at my friends J and Melissa's house. I am comfortable.

And grateful, unbelievably grateful to be alive.

Food and Diet 

Today's Weight:                    205.2 lbs.

Previous Weight (8/6/20):          205.2 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                     - 1.9 lbs.

Diet Comment

I have not been able to weigh myself since 8/6.

Food Log

Breakfast
In hospital.

Lunch
In hospital.

Dinner
In hospital..

Liquid Intake

   Espressos: 0;   Coffee: 0 oz.;  Water: 0+ oz.; 

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