Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: RidgeRunner on November 02, 2012, 12:33:47 pm
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I had a heart attack Tuesday. Had to have a stent put in my heart.
Got home yesterday around 2:00 PM. I feel better. Much Better.
Will have to attend "heart rehab" three time a week for the next six weeks.
My heart was damaged. Dont know how bad at this time. My EKG signal is still normal so my heart has a good chance of healing back to 100% or close to it.
Will be on blood thinner for a long time. Maybe the rest of my life. Dr. said I should have a normal life span.
Will be off work for at least two weeks while I build up my stamina.
Pray for me and please pray for my dear wife as she will have to keep me in check for quite some time.
This hunting season is most likely lost.
David
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Just terrible. Thank God things aren't worse off, though.
Prayers for a quick, uneventful recovery, David.
Where was the blockage?
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You got it - good luck with the recovery! Will pray for your wife too - nothing worse than a "macho outdoorsman" stuck in the house - kind of like a dog with a collar of shame! >:D
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I'll be praying for you guys.
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Dang David, you are way too young for that. Take care and do what the Dr tells you. I'll be thinking about you.
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Rest up so you can heal up. Once you're healed then worry about hunting. I'll be prayin for you
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Good luck with the recovery David.
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Glad you're able to post after a traumatic event. Follow docs orders on the road to recovery.
Tracy
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Sorry to hear but glad you are doing ok!!
Had bypass 10 years ago and have been able to get back to hunting....hope and pray the best for you too!!
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Glad to hear you're ok David.
Sending good wishes to you and yours from Ireland.
Steve.
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So sorry to hear of this....terrible for sure. Wish you the best and heal up.
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Better to give up one season then all of 'em!
Feel better soon, ok?
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Sorry to hear that... Be extra careful on those blood thinners. A fall or a cut can be a big deal. Rest up get healed this season for a lifetime of other seasons....
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Praying that you make a full recovery.
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Thanks for the prayers guys. I knew I could count on you guys.
I slept for 10 hours Thursday night. When I woke up... I felt like I only 25 years old not 47.
My arms and legs don't feel heavy anymore.
I slept for 9 hours last night.
Don't have any stamina yet and want do anything strenuous until I get to rehab.
Thanks for the thoughts and prayers guys.
David
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Funny how a li'l ol' stent allowing blood to go where it belongs can improve things! Careful not to overdo things right away though.
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Yea that is right JW. It truley is amazing.
Parnell: The Circumflex artery on the left side of the heart forks.
Both forks of my Left Circumflex artery were blocked 100%
The left fork got the stent the right fork got Roto-Ruttered.
David
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Took me about 6 months to feel almost normal, but it will change your priorities! Glad your home,thats the best medicine!
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Prayers sent, best of luck on your recovery. Just listen to the physical
therapist, and you will be surprised at how fast you will recover. I sure hope you can get off of those blood thinners as soon as you can. Even aspirin has problems, and you should take vitamin c with it, it you get put on an aspirin regimen after the blood thinners. Good luck to you.
Wayne
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Slept for another 9 Hours last night.
Will be going to "rehab" today for the first time.
As we were leaving the hospital the Dr. told me that I could walk as much as I felt like.
So, yesterday, after church, my oldest niece Kara my BNL Larry and I walked about 3/4 of a mile on the road here by the house.
Started working on some arrows. Have to wear gloves to use a knife. Have to be careful. With these blood thinners in my vanes one nick
could lead to a big problem.
David
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Shoowhee, that feeds the main ventricle. So glad things weren't worse for you but still praying for a healthy recovery.
Sounds like your off to a good start, take care David.
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Well, Today I go see the Heart Dr.
Got to be there at 10:00AM.
First time I will have seen him since I got out of the Hospital.
Cardeo Rehab has been going very well.
It took several days But...., Just between you and me, ... I have got used to being off work ;)
But, I hope the Dr. will wright me a "Return to Work Pass"
Will let you guys know what the Dr. said when we get back home this afternoon.
David
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Cool,hope you get a good report. Then you will have to go back to the grind. :( ;D :-\ ;)
Pappy
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Well.... After two days of stress tests and Gamma-Ray photos of my heart.... The Dr. has released me with "NO RESTRICTIONS" ;D ;D ;D
My wife actually ask if I could drag a deer out of the woods by myself. The Dr. said yes... If he can manage to actually shoot one. :o ::)
How does he know that I am a lousy deer hunter?????
So, Monday it is "Back to the Grind" as Pappy said. :(
David
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Thats good news Brother!
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glad your doing better, i remember when my grandpa had a heartatack the doc just about had to chain him up to keep him from going back to his farm to get haying done
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Glad to hear you are doing well! Be very thankful it wasn't worse, or that the heart was damaged. You were very fortunate indeed. Let your wife shoot the deer, and you drag it out. ;) Take care, and enjoy work....... ;D
Wayne
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Well..... Here I am.... Back at work this morning......
Remind me why I wanted to come back to this place. ;D ;D ;D
Stickbender: I agree "Fortunate Indeed"
About 20 years back I took my wife hunting one morning.... It was about 5 degrees.
She about froze. Has refused to go hunting with me ever since. Even it is 70 Degrees. :(
David
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Glad you are back up and going. Great news. :)
Pappy
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I don't blame her a bit! If I am not starving, I simply am not in any particular
hurry to get out in that kind of weather. I did hunt one day in 0 degrees, up here in Montana, one year. Like I said I did hunt "One" day.... A friend of mine brought his Girlfriend hunting, in Florida one time, and it was about 38-40 degrees, and heavy dew. So I took the big garbage bag, "I" was going to use , and cut head, and arm holes in it, and she stayed dry, while my Buddy and I got soaked! She had wet pant legs, and feet, but she never complained once! I was impressed! She never went again, but never complained! ;) ;D ;D Well just think of work, as proof that you are alive, and evaded the cold fingers of death, and revel in it. Even if it is at work, any day above ground is a good day! Take care, and tell you wife, if the weather is good, you would appreciate her companionship in the tree stand, and she can even bring a book. Just no wine, or chocolate. Tell her she can bring Vanilla wafers though. ;)
Tell her you will try not disturb her reading till the Buck is in close range, then you will hold her book, with your finger in between the pages she was reading, while she shoots the deer, and then you will give her book back, and go get the deer.
Oh tell her a couple of sandwiches would be nice also......and maybe a beer or two to wash them down after the hunt. ::) Glad that you are back in place, and feeling better. A Friend of mine had a stint put in, and he and his wife were going up some stairs, in a building down town, and he stopped at the top, and turned to her, and said, look, I am not even breathing hard, and i didn't have to stop to catch my breath! it makes a difference. Just keep an eye on it, and don't go trying out for the Olympics. ;) ;D
Wayne
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Well, now that you have had one, the bloom is off the rose...so to speak. No need to do that again. Eat healthy, live healthy, and make bows.
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These Blood Thinners that I am on make me feel cold.
So, I guess my REAL COLD Weather hunting days are over.
I can take 25 degrees quite well. Done that about two weeks back. ;D
David
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Gonna have to move more when possible to get your blood temp up! haha. i hope you are doing real well sir and can hopefully do whatever you feel. but, i have to ask what are/were, your life habits? Eating wise, smoker, drinker, exercise? i'm just curious. but when it comes to things like this, life is short isn't it? live.be happy now. even sometimes no matter what. Some people look down on things truly aren't even bad. you think the colds better for your heart? less heat or humidity working on it. deep clean breaths. . .
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Huntertrapper:
Well Young man, I will tell you.
Don't smoke. Never Have.
Don't drink. Never Have.
Have walked a mile or two (almost everyday) for the past 20 years. That is the truth.
Cut and split Firewood on a regular bases. 10 to 12 cords a year. By my self.
I am 6' tall and never weighed more than 189 pounds.
My wife's parents both had heart problems.
So, Since we have been married (21 years) I have eat a very heart healthy diet.
So much fish and chicken that I think I could swim up stream and go to roost.
I eat two apples almost everday, oatmeal for breakfast half the time and lots of veggies.
I love veggies and fruit.
No history of heart problems with any of my relatives......
Had a nurse call me about a week after I got home. Gave her all of the above answers....
She said " You Mr. Key are the type of person that scare the @#%& out of us health professionals."
Just a few days back the Dr. told me that my liver just does not process fat like most livers do.
I am just one of those unlucky people. It used to be that folks like me killed over....
Dr. Told me to be carefull in extreme hot or cold for the next year. My heart still has a way to go before it is completely healed. Extreme temps make the heart work hard.
Life is short... But, As Pappy said "Life is Good" and I intend to live it well.
I feel great! ;D Have started actually "working out" Real Cordeo and Weight Training.
Have Lost down to 179 Pounds and a few mussels have stared to sprout. The wife likes that. ;)
David
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Hahah i bet she does but wow that's startling. You just never know. That's why i live fast and do what I want now because it could end with the last key stroke of this typing.
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RR makes a good point. He HAS lived well and carefully. Imagine if he had eaten fast food twice a day for years, sat on the couch escercising only his thumb on the clicker watching TV with his spare time, all the while chain smoking and cracking 12 oz belly busters! He'd have been dead at 30!
Atta boy, RR. Continue to live well while you can. Don't count the days, count the joy.
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Just wanted to let all of you folks know that I have completed my Cardeo Rehab.
Those nurses worked the $#!^ out of me. Lost about ten pounds of flab then put on about 6 pounds of muscle. Got my stamina back. I guess we will see how good it is the first time I fire up my Chainsaw and 8lb splitting maul. But, these blood thinners I am on make me bruise real easy. It might be that most of these blood thinners can be stopped in another 8 months or so. I sure hope so.... They make me cold as well... Had my final walking test to evaluate my condition. Nurse marked off 100' in the hall. Had to walk as far as I could ( back and forth ) in six minutes. I covered 2355'. Nurse was blown away and said she thought that was a new record.
I did not even have my good walking shoes on. :D
Have a three month FREE membership to a gym and have started jogging a bit at home.
"Life is good" and I plan to live it well.
David
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congrats on such an amazing recovery David!
live long and well
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Congrats David. A 12 minute mile is almost olympic! ;)
Sounds like you are getting yourself buff. Remember no speedos at the Classic! ;)
Glad to hear you are doing so much better. Keep it up. 8)
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Great to hear David.Glad it went well. :)
Pappy
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Good job !!
Glad it went so well !
Guy
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Glad to hear you are doing well, David.
I had three heart attacks in a weekend, 90 % blockage, two stints in the major artery fixed me right up too.
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Thanks for the good words guys.
Pat:
I don't think I could have covered a whole mile at that speed. My heart rate was up to 140 beats per minute. That may not sound to high but for someone on "Bata Blocker Drugs" it is.
My Jogging is "NOT PRETTY" now. I don't think a speedo would help one bit. ;D
Roy:
Both forks on my Left Circumflex Artery were blocked right at 95%. One fork got roto ruttered the other got a stint. Fixed me right up as well.
David
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David, I'm very glad you're recovering well. Hope you can make the Classic in May!
Greg
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Praying for you as well. That's scary. Glad it turned out well.
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I am doing VERY WELL. ;D
Feel better that I have felt in ... Well Years really.
Little blood flow does wonders. :D
Greg B: I plan to be at the Classic. Trying to bring two new people with me.
Will spread the addiction if I can get them there. ;D
David