Category: "Family"
December 30, 2004
Holy Crap!
My step-dad had a heart attack last night! I actually called him in the middle of him getting all clammy. My mom told me on the phone that he was also having chest pains but he wouldn't go to the hospital. I guess he collapsed right after I got off the phone with her and she called the paramedics.
It sounds all too much like a story I had just heard that morning. Last week I had sent a "Merry Christmas" email to a former client. He responded this week (I was out sick Tuesday, so I didn't get the email until yesterday). He thanked me for remembering him and also shared with me an experience he had just over a year ago. Apparently he had a series of heart attacks one evening (he didn't realize it at the time, mind you) and his wife almost got him to agree to go to the hospital, but then he found a "comfort zone" and convinced her not to take him. In the morning he was still having pains and luckily his wife wasn't going to accept any excuses for not going to the hospital. While at the hospital, he went into full cardiac arrest. Thankfully he was in the right place at the right time and survived.
Because of this experience, he wrote a one page article on "Male Stupidity" in hopes of educating others who might otherwise ignore signs and try to tough it out. He told me that I could share it with whomever I like, and seeing as how this hits all too close to home, I thought I'd take the opportunity to share it here. It's in a Word document format. If you have trouble reading it, let me know and I will convert it to html so that it may be viewed as a web page.
Update: Actually, I'll just go ahead and put it up as an .htm file now to make it easier.
Posted by Rebecca at December 30, 2004 08:29 PM
Comments
I'm so sorry to hear about that Becky! Thoughts and prayers go out to your family.
Posted by: Froggie at December 31, 2004 05:49 PM
Wow. Let him know our thoughts and prayers are with him as well.
Posted by: DocMagik at January 1, 2005 01:09 AM
Thank you both! They hope to fit him in for an angiogram todday, but if not today, they have to wait until Wednesday. He's going stir crazy and wants to go home, so hopefully they can squeeze him in today.
Posted by: Rebecca at January 1, 2005 12:45 PM
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