Spent the weekend in the hospital

[T2R9]

Yeah that was fun. Wednesday I started having numbness in my left arm and figured I just slept on it wrong and it would go away. It didn’t and found myself in the emergency room Saturday morning. I give them credit they had me in fast and hooked up to all the gadgets. Had a cat scan, MRI, and multiple ultrasounds.

Doctor said it was a TIV, Transient Ischemic Attack.or mini stroke. They found one vein in my neck with about 30% blockage. They figure if it is there, there will also be blockage in other areas. The ticker tested good thank god. Now I have a meeting with the vascular surgeon to get this addressed. And now the bills start…

Take care of yourself everyone!

 

[Richard Cranium]

Hoping that the prognosis is in your favor.

 

[T2R9]

They seem pretty positive we caught it early. Blood thinners are now part of my diet.

 

[ckessel]

Stay well bro!

 

[Fran Blacker]

Getting to Hospital early is important, get well.

 

[Richard Davis]

Glad they caught it early. I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my lungs during COVID. No insurance and had to wait for Obamacare to get the COVID test before I could get to a doctor. Crazy times. The (expensive) blood thinners did their job and everything is good now.

Last time I was in the Conway hospital was in 1975. Back then it was located in town. Had to go to Emergency because my boss hit me in the head with the head of a hammer that had broken off. Luckily just a flesh wound. We moved from Conway to San Diego in 76 after I graduated High School.

I remember cruising the Church St (E 501) in my 68 Coronet 500 conv. on Sunday evenings during the off season. Great times.

 

[khryslerkid]

They've come a long way with vascular treatments these days. A guy at work had a blockage above his heart. They went in through his neck and inserted a stint. He stopped in to see the boss a week after. Back to work in two weeks.

You take it easy and listen to your doctor

 

[T2R9]

Glad they caught it early. I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my lungs during COVID. No insurance and had to wait for Obamacare to get the COVID test before I could get to a doctor. Crazy times. The (expensive) blood thinners did their job and everything is good now.

Last time I was in the Conway hospital was in 1975. Back then it was located in town. Had to go to Emergency because my boss hit me in the head with the head of a hammer that had broken off. Luckily just a flesh wound. We moved from Conway to San Diego in 76 after I graduated High School.

I remember cruising the Church St (E 501) in my 68 Coronet 500 conv. on Sunday evenings during the off season. Great times.

I went to Grand Strand, Conway is not equipped for major issues and I didn’t want them to transfer me and incur a expensive ambulance ride so we just drove right by them.

I work for the city and our public safety building sits on the old hospital site.

 

[davek]

Not cool,glad your ok and hope it gets better for you. Yep those bills will kill you for sure.

 

[1967coronet]

Glad it was not worse , also very glad they got it figured out fast.
You got a new diet now I figure.
Keep us up to date.

 

[Budnicks]

Yeah that was fun. Wednesday I started having numbness in my left arm and figured I just slept on it wrong and it would go away. It didn’t and found myself in the emergency room Saturday morning. I give them credit they had me in fast and hooked up to all the gadgets. Had a cat scan, MRI, and multiple ultrasounds.

Doctor said it was a TIV, Transient Ischemic Attack.or mini stroke. They found one vein in my neck with about 30% blockage. They figure if it is there, there will also be blockage in other areas. The ticker tested good thank god. Now I have a meeting with the vascular surgeon to get this addressed. And now the bills start…

Take care of yourself everyone!

Stay well & get better soon,
good they/you caught it when they/you did...

Hopefully here's to a full & speedy recovery

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I've been dealing with that stuff with my 87 year old dad
for going on 5+ years now
1st he was having a lil' trouble breathing
(he has COPD, they missdiagnosed him & treated him for asthma wrongly for 40+ years)
& constant burping, numbness in his left arm...

We go, I take him into the dr.s office, he seemed fine
they get him on a echocardiogram (?)
(he had probably had several episodes/mini strokes & attack prior
he didn't do anything about)
they come out & tell me/have me rush him to Hospital ER next-door
have him admitted checked in immediately, in the next 2 days,
has to have a quadruple bypass/open heart surgery
& a valve replaced with a pigs valve
massive clogged/hardened arteries (alcohol abuse)
they had him under for 7 day, after the surgery
so he wouldn't rip out his staples & stiches from
having convulsions, shakes for/from detoxing off alcohol
then rehab for almost a year after that, then 6 months or in home nurses
teaching him how to chew, wipe & walk again,
all from the forced massive anesthesia amounts
he had to be kept under

It also started out really innocent, not much...
it really got crazy fast
Cardioalcoholmaropothy (? something like that)

Now been seeing a pulmonary specialist/lungs
& a vascular surgeon scare, for alleged corraded artery blockages
now they say, he can be treated with meds, no surgery needed

take care of yourselves,
it gets really ugly/sketchy when you get old otherwise

 

[eldubb440]

Damn Jeff...... glad you made it, and hope you stick around for a while

 

[Pistol Pete]

Oof, glad to hear you're doing better.

 

[64BEL]

Glad you got in in time. All the best for a successful conclusion!

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

Hoping all the best for you!

 

[themechanic]

Glad you are feeling better. Try a low carb diet. Get right with the Lord while you still can.

 

[XS22J8R]

They seem pretty positive we caught it early. Blood thinners are now part of my diet.

I had a real bad DVT blood clot in late 2020 and blood thinners are part of my diet now too. Shocking how expensive the one I take is, I think it lists at $650 a month!
I get emails at work every month from our insurance encouraging me to switch to antiquated cumiden to save money, fact is if I switched, I’d save them a lot, me not so much!
Scary thing is the few times I’ve gotten minor cuts since starting them, I bleed like a pig. Anything to keep from getting another clot though, provided I don’t bleed to death someday from a cut!

 

[Skytrooper]

A good catch early ! Thank goodness!

 

[Charles Cook]

Take care Jeff. Hoping for a speedy recovery.

 

[dart4forte]

Funny this thread pops up. I go in this afternoon for an ultrasound on my courotic arteries. They did the arms and legs last month. Since my heart attack in early April they are leaving no stone unturned.