You and me both, brother, but mine was January, 2024.
Had my 2nd heart attack in an emergency room, in the middle of a snow and ice storm, as the power goes out.
“OK, you need a stent, but we can’t do that here, we have to get you to a different hospital and the ambulance can’t get here because of the snow and ice. It’s coming.”
Ambulance doesn’t come. I wake up at 6 AM and am fiddling with my phone, nurse comes in.
“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”
“. . . Um, ‘thank you’? I don’t know the correct response to ‘your heart stopped for 8 seconds’.”
Yeah, I have an implanted heart monitor now that talks to my phone, it sends a signal back to the docs if anything goes wrong.
My heart has stopped a couple other times, nothing as dramatic as 8 seconds, 4 or 5 seconds here and there. Doc says not to worry as long as it only happens when I’m sleeping and I’m like “Dude! How am I supposed to sleep now?”
crazy story. an EMT was telling me once how he came to an old guys house bc his wife called, and when he got there he was dead. bright him back with drugs and CPR.
You and me both, brother, but mine was January, 2024.
Had my 2nd heart attack in an emergency room, in the middle of a snow and ice storm, as the power goes out.
“OK, you need a stent, but we can’t do that here, we have to get you to a different hospital and the ambulance can’t get here because of the snow and ice. It’s coming.”
Ambulance doesn’t come. I wake up at 6 AM and am fiddling with my phone, nurse comes in.
“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”
“. . . Um, ‘thank you’? I don’t know the correct response to ‘your heart stopped for 8 seconds’.”
I think the correct response is “oh, ok. Thanks for letting me know!”
Yeah, I have an implanted heart monitor now that talks to my phone, it sends a signal back to the docs if anything goes wrong.
My heart has stopped a couple other times, nothing as dramatic as 8 seconds, 4 or 5 seconds here and there. Doc says not to worry as long as it only happens when I’m sleeping and I’m like “Dude! How am I supposed to sleep now?”
crazy story. an EMT was telling me once how he came to an old guys house bc his wife called, and when he got there he was dead. bright him back with drugs and CPR.