Widowmaker and other Heart Problems Club
Three years ago I was 69, no kid anymore. I had put up a bunch of farm fence, pounded steel posts, most of corner posts I used of neighbors old tractor. I was draggin. Then I started a colt in a small pen, a too small pen. He was gentle and lazy. i wore myself out pushing him around. Damn! Then that Sun. I was sitting in the chair in the house and broke out into a sweat. Felt like pure chit but NO pain in an arm or whatever. Then felt better. Same thing on Mon. Went to the family doc Tue and he did the EKG I guess you call it. He said he was calling an ambulance. I said we will drive. The doc got blessed out by the hospital doc because he did not call a helicopter.
Then 2 stinks that they did not like, then.....and a triple bypass. Healed up and said all is good (enough).
We live an hour from the hospital and therapy, so I just did my own. Plenty to keep me busy. Three years later I guess I do OK for my age. I went back to the cardiologist just once since. He listened to my heart and asked how I was doing. I know I should go back every 6 months. Family doc bitches at me for not.
I have a old friend my age down in Jacksonville, Fl. A Chevy guy. He had a blocked widow maker 1 1/2 ears ago. He got over it and continued his Chevy resto work. He was the type to pay for it all done and his *** got soft. Last month he tripped over something and had a bad fall, and never got over it and died. Just about all my old friends have died. A few left.