sjhgraysage
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This hunting season while hunting deer and elk, I started experiencing an odd burning pain in the middle of my chest. I have not had issue with acid reflux or heartburn. But both of my parents have had open heart surgery and multiple coronary bypasses. Dad is 87 and has 15 stents in the bypasses he had done 26 years ago.
So at 58 years old I decided I had better pay attention to what I would consider ?warning signs?. When I got home in early November from elk hunting I called my doctor and scheduled a visit. He checked me out and had a basic EKG done in the office, that didn't show anything unusual. But given my family history he suggested a treadmill stress test be done. So on Nov. 30th I went in for the stress test. Right after starting the test I had that strange burning pain in the middle of my chest. The test didn't go on for long before the technician told me she was going to stop it. During a follow up visit with a cardiologist that morning, he told me that I likely had a blockage in one of my coronary arteries and that I should have a procedure done, a heart cath, to find it and fix it. On Dec. 9 I checked in for that. They found my Left main ? Left anterior descending artery 99% blocked and had to put a stent in there to open it. They came out and told my wife at the end of the procedure that I was 99% blocked in the ?widow maker artery? and that it was very lucky that we had come in and gotten it taken care of.
Moral of the story to you my MM friends is to pay attention to what your body is trying to tell you and avoid, if possible, a life ending heart attack. Be proactive, don't become a statistic.
I'm looking forward to being able to be in the outdoors doing what I love with the people I love for more years to come. I hope you are as well.
So at 58 years old I decided I had better pay attention to what I would consider ?warning signs?. When I got home in early November from elk hunting I called my doctor and scheduled a visit. He checked me out and had a basic EKG done in the office, that didn't show anything unusual. But given my family history he suggested a treadmill stress test be done. So on Nov. 30th I went in for the stress test. Right after starting the test I had that strange burning pain in the middle of my chest. The test didn't go on for long before the technician told me she was going to stop it. During a follow up visit with a cardiologist that morning, he told me that I likely had a blockage in one of my coronary arteries and that I should have a procedure done, a heart cath, to find it and fix it. On Dec. 9 I checked in for that. They found my Left main ? Left anterior descending artery 99% blocked and had to put a stent in there to open it. They came out and told my wife at the end of the procedure that I was 99% blocked in the ?widow maker artery? and that it was very lucky that we had come in and gotten it taken care of.
Moral of the story to you my MM friends is to pay attention to what your body is trying to tell you and avoid, if possible, a life ending heart attack. Be proactive, don't become a statistic.
I'm looking forward to being able to be in the outdoors doing what I love with the people I love for more years to come. I hope you are as well.
