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Wish me luck...

Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
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In about 6 hours I go in to the hospital for the Cronic Total Occlusion Stent installation in the left main artery which is known as the Widow Maker Artery. They tried to put stents in back 2 or 3 weeks ago here in Fayetteville, GA but they were not set up to install the stent in the main artery which they found when they got in there. So they had to stop and make reservations for me at the main hospital in Atlanta. They have a back up team there that can do open heart surgery if the stent installation goes bad. The doctor said it is 100 percent blocked. I asked how on earth can it be totally blocked and I've not bit the dust yet? He said my heart has found a way to reroute the blood in my heart that's keeping me alive. It don't flow as good as the main artery but it works for a while. He said I haven't had a heart attack which is a plus and that he believes the stent will do the job. Having to wait a couple of weeks to get this procedure done has been a killer for me. It's hard to sleep knowing your old heart is about ready to call it quits. My blood pressure has been all over the place these past couple of weeks.

With the way my luck has been running the past year and a half I expect the worse. My wife died about 5 weeks ago from cancer, my oldest son's wife has stage 4 brain cancer and is continuing chemo and he can't be here with me and my youngest son's wife is battling an illness that won't let her raise her arms above her waist so he can't be here plus he's over 3,000 miles away and has already spent thousands of bucks in air line tickets visiting his mom before she passed away.

So I'm here on my own. My mom is 91 years old and can't come to be with me and I wouldn't want her to even if she could. My sister is taking care of my mom so she can't come and the rest of my family has already kicked the bucket years ago. It's a real pain in the rear getting old.

I've had to call a cab to pick me up at 4:00AM this morning to get me to the hospital. I could drive myself but they won't let me leave the hospital without someone to drive me and if I were to just leave and have a wreck and kill somebody from being on drugs and not following hospital orders I really would be in a world of hurt. So I'll just call a cab. I checked out Uber and there is no way to talk to someone and I live out in the county so there might be a car available or there may not and without talking to someone in person I'm not taking a chance. The cab driver has already called to confirm my ride this morning and gave me his phone number. He also said he would call again before he arrives.

Oh well, I'll probably not make it through the procedure anyway so this stuff won't be high on my list of giving a crap about.

I've spent several hours today writing notes for my youngest son to know where and how to operate things here at the house if I don't make it back.

If'n you all don't hear from me again it's been nice hanging out with you here on the forum. You all have been very supportive during June's year and a half battle with cancer before she died. She and I both appreciated all the prayers and well wishes she received during that terrible time.

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