Ticker Trouble

I suppose it was bound to happen, after all the last time I had heart problems was 11 years ago. Friday night I had some pressure in my upper chest extending to the base of my neck...the same feeling I had before. My son told me to get to the E.R. so Sandy took me in. The cardiologist on call was a new doc in Kearney...Mine was in India. After some tests, he decided that I had not had a heart attack, but needed a heart cath the next morning.

Sat. morning he performed a cath and found that the circumflex artery was 99% closed. He stented the artery, and within a few minutes I woke up feeling great. It was somewhat sobering to find out that the circumflex supplies most of the blood for the rear of the heart...Dr. Sambaro said that my life was hanging by a thread.

Home again Sunday afternoon and back to dialysis today. All's well that ends well.