My wife started having chest pains one Sunday. They ramped up and she said something to me at about 7pm. I took her to the local ER immediately. We sat in there until 3am. They ran tests and observed and determined she had gerd and not a heart attack. Sent us home. At 7am she told me she had to go back to the hospital, something was very wrong. We went back and they hooked her up and immediatly said she was having a heart attack and life flight was on the way to take her to St. Luke's in Houston. She had 100% blockage of the widow maker. I went home, packed a few things real quickly and drove to St Lukes about an hour and a half away and when I got there they had not started working on her yet but she was in the cath lab. They put some stints in. All good. Then she clotted the stints and it was like she had a heart attack all over again. They took her back into the cath lab, pulled the stints, cleared the clots and put new stints in. Back to the room and before long she clotted them again. They pulled them but could not put more in due to the condition of the inside of her arteries at that point. They were worried about doing big damage with more stints. She ended up with a clot in one artery and a clot in her left ventricle. Those were treated and dissolved with meds and time.
Happy to say she is doing great now. Mean as ever.
Happy to say she is doing great now. Mean as ever.
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