This is a very hard thread to write

Yes, the quality of food is shockingly bad. For Xmas dinner I got three slices of processed turkey, some mash and some gravy. I have a photo which only my support for the NHS stopped me sending to the tabloids,
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
But I’m lying in hospital having been told that I’ve had at least one heart attack in the past couple of weeks. I’ve been having what I thought was panic attacks most of this year, which seemed to come to a head a couple of weeks ago. I had a really bad one but would never have thought it was a heart attack.

I had another one on Friday. I knew something bad was happening because the sharp, intense and burning pain in my chest was like nothing I’ve ever felt before. I decided to take aspirin and Gaviscon and then rest. But I can’t walk for even a minute without feeling breathless.

I called 111 today and saw a doctor and they sent me here. Lewisham Hospital A&E. I’ve just had an injection in my stomach to thin my blood. And then this week it’s an angiogram.

A heart attack at 41. Absolutely mad
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Get well soon
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
I’m thinking it’s Lewisham and Greenwich. I had news of my echocardiogram today and they said they found no damage to my heart, so that’s reassuring. But the angiogram will show them what needs to be done. Lots of people are saying I’ll have a stent but until they tell you you just don’t know and I don’t want to focus on one thing and then get blindsided by it being something else.

I would say the injections and the medication are taking their toll a bit now, I’m feeling fragile and very tired. But the nurses here are great. It’s not so bad, I’m watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and I’ve had my other half and her mam here all day. I’m lucky I’ve got all of this support on tap. The food though. Blimey. That’s the only thing I could grumble about tbh. It’s BAD. It feels like it would actually take more effort to produce food this bad rather than just doing decent stuff properly.
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Give me a shout if you want a YK Chows bringing down Viv
 
Quick update: I was moved to a cardiac ward tonight and I'm officially waiting for an angiogram. My lungs have been given the all clear and my chest is the same. It’s all about finding what’s caused this heart attack. I think the doctors think it’s a blocked vessel or artery or something so we’ll see. I don’t want to take anything for granted. It might be something bigger, or trickier, and require actual surgery and that’s a very scary thought tbh. But I’m okay. I’m almost certainly going to be here for the weekend now. I can live with that though. It’s a small price to pay for being alive.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Quick update: I was moved to a cardiac ward tonight and I'm officially waiting for an angiogram. My lungs have been given the all clear and my chest is the same. It’s all about finding what’s caused this heart attack. I think the doctors think it’s a blocked vessel or artery or something so we’ll see. I don’t want to take anything for granted. It might be something bigger, or trickier, and require actual surgery and that’s a very scary thought tbh. But I’m okay. I’m almost certainly going to be here for the weekend now. I can live with that though. It’s a small price to pay for being alive.
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Still bed blocking this morning I see viv.

Keep us posted on test results. Not sure if this helps but our son has a valve replaced and a pacemaker fitted when he was late 20's. Like you he was worried. The surgeon described him as a wet dream as he was used to working on 70 year olds.

Whatever they do as treatment you are still quite young and you'll be reet mate.
 
Quick wave to Viv

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I’m ALIVE!

I’m recovering at home. I had heart surgery last Monday and now have a stent. The surgeon said there was a 95% blockage in a vessel and so the stent was fitted. I hated the surgery, I was awake for it but had local anaesthetic in the wrist/arm
area.

Lots of people said I wouldn’t feel a thing but it felt like he was shoving a massive piece of rope into my wrist. It didn’t hurt much but did near the end. But then you see the tiny little cut in your wrist afterwards and you realise it was probably a tiny, tiny piece of super-fine wire being used. And what I remember most was a handful of occasions where I literally felt it, him, the surgeon, poking around in my heart. A tiny nudge, a tiny surge. It made me panic but each one lasted a second or two and then it stopped. But it was a completely wild experience.

I’ve been home since Tuesday, resting and recuperating. The snooker couldn’t have started at a better time. I take a few tablets each morning and night but it’s nothing really.

It feels mad that this two weeks ago I was literally lying in A&E trying to process being told I’d had a heart attack, possibly two. It’s so surreal. But I’m back now, and I actually feel better than I have done in years. I think I said earlier in the thread that I’d been carrying something around for months. Well those feelings are gone now. I can go for a walk without worrying about breathlessness, tightness in the chest, palpitations. It feels great.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this thread. It got me through a bad, dark, horrible time and I’ve very grateful and appreciative of all the support. It really helped, especially when I felt upset on the Sunday night and Monday morning, thinking about Lennie’s Lions and Cardiff and Steaua and Ravanelli. I wasn’t sure I was going to see the next Boro promotion at one point. But I’m sure I will now. This time next year.

Thank you to you all, and UTFB.
 
Great news Viv. Glad you’re back home, up and about and feeling all the better for it. Looking forward to seeing some of your top takes again on here soon. I’ll also pass on the best wishes from some of the OneBoro crew. They asked if someone from fmttm and OneBoro could pass on their regards.
 
One of my best/oldest mates has had exactly the same thing at almost the exact same time. He’s on the mend now too.

Glad to hear you’re back. 👍
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Lots of people said I wouldn’t feel a thing but it felt like he was shoving a massive piece of rope into my wrist. It didn’t hurt much but did near the end. But then you see the tiny little cut in your wrist afterwards and you realise it was probably a tiny, tiny piece of super-fine wire being used.
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Glad to hear you're on the mend.

I've been 2nd operator for at least several hundred angioplasties. Sounds like what you had there is a bit of radial artery spasm. That's where the artery tightens on the catheter, which is probably 3-4mm across. It is very painful when it happens, but apart from being painful, it's a relatively minor complication (easy for me to say, I know).

The wires that go into your coronary is very fine, but the catheter runs from your arm to just outside the heart is quite a bit thicker.
 
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