Celebrating life

[LisaOfToronto]

It's the 1 year anniversary of my heart-attack...watching the movie Meet Joe Black.. lol

will never forget when the elephant stood on my chest, crushing it all the way to the back...thats what it felt like amongst the pinching of the back of my arms...my head; I wanted it to explode rather than feel the pain which seemed to last an eternity

EMS came they told me I had a panic-attack so I didn't go to the hospital and next morning I had at least 4 more milder heart attacks before I called them again.

My heart is now more damaged than if the EMS took me to hospital right away, diagnosis was a 90% occlusion of the main artery to my heart...what do the lawyers around here think about that? do I have a case against EMS?

This is is not the 1st time EMS diagnosed me sooooo wrong. A few years ago my arm was broken in a domestic fight... short of the broken bone piercing through the skin, EMS told me and the cops that it wasn't broken. The cops arrested both parties and cuffed my hands in the back, I recall such excruciating pain that I managed to get my arm out of the cuff. Anyway long story short I didnt go to the doc/hospital for 3 weeks because EMS told me it was not broken. Over the years now I still feel a bit of pain in my arm where it was broken, not sure if thats natural or because it didn't get set for 3 weeks after it was broken.

On the broken arm I think the time run out to sue EMS cuz its been over 2 years, but this 2nd wrong diagnosis could have actually cost me my life...whats a girl to do?

 

[papasmerf]

Celebrate the fact you are alive.

Not the fact someone may have made a mistake.

 

[Butch]

You sure like to sue people don't ya :banghead:

 

[LisaOfToronto]

Celebrate the fact you are alive.

Not the fact someone may have made a mistake.

thats what keeps me alive!!!

and on that note, maybe soon EMS will make that mistake with you and you just dont survive ...how do you like that? or you fam? ohhh im sorry you dont have a family!

You sure like to sue people don't ya :banghead:

we've always settled :shocking:

 

[Madman]

If you've been legitimately wronged and you have a case I would pursue it. Speak with a lawyer and see what they think, perhaps on a contingency.

 

[BEER]

we've always settled :shocking:

That's my girl :spiteful:

 

[papasmerf]

thats what keeps me alive!!!

and on that note, maybe soon EMS will make that mistake with you and you just dont survive ...how do you like that? or you fam? ohhh im sorry you dont have a family!
:shocking:

I do have a family Lisa

I just know from experience, you can not prevent your own death.

Nor can you delay or accelerate it.

 

[Maurice Boscorelli]

I just know from experience, you can not prevent your own death.

Nor can you delay or accelerate it.

You'll have to expand on this one please because on the surface I would hardily disagree.

I would say that if you smoke 3 packs a day and are 40 Lb's over weight you are speeding your mortality rate up quite a bit.

 

[papasmerf]

You'll have to expand on this one please because on the surface I would hardily disagree.

I would say that if you smoke 3 packs a day and are 40 Lb's over weight you are speeding your mortality rate up quite a bit.

I have been pronounce dead twice in hospitals.

You can not die one second before or after your time.

You can however make your life uncomfortable.

 

[LisaOfToronto]

I do have a family Lisa

I just know from experience, you can not prevent your own death.

Nor can you delay or accelerate it.

pops that doesn't even make sense

 

[LickingGravity]

pops that doesn't even make sense

Have to agree with you there Lisa. Maybe Papa has discovered Budha or something.

I'm not sure why EMS is diagnosing at all. They should just take you to the hospital and let the doctors diagnose. The immediate test as to whether one had a heart attack or not is a blood test believe it or not. When someone has a heart attack certain enzymes are relased into your blood. Their presence and the degree of them verify in the quickest means possible whether you have had a heart attck or not. Even doctors will not confirm until they get this test back so I'm not sure what EMS was thinking. What they did if you are recalling it correctly can't be SAP and is downright dangerous.

 

[LisaOfToronto]

Have to agree with you there Lisa. Maybe Papa has discovered Budha or something.

I'm not sure why EMS is diagnosing at all. They should just take you to the hospital and let the doctors diagnose. The immediate test as to whether one had a heart attack or not is a blood test believe it or not. When someone has a heart attack certain enzymes are relased into your blood. Their presence and the degree of them verify in the quickest means possible whether you have had a heart attck or not. Even doctors will not confirm until they get this test back so I'm not sure what EMS was thinking. What they did if you are recalling it correctly can't be SAP and is downright dangerous.

What does SAP mean?

I agree downright dangerous. Prior to this I never had a panick attack or a heart attack so I didn't know what to compare it to. But that's what they told me, they said based on what I told them I had a panic attack.

About 5 minutes before I had the heart attack, my daughter called: she was coughing, more like chocking, she said she had a fire in her kitchen. I told her to get out of there right now. She argued with me saying that the fire was out. I knew she was chocking on the smoke. I screamed at her to go outside to get fresh air. She finally listened and went outside.

Meantime I was home alone, had a few drinks & smokes, and quite the distance from where she lived in a large renovated basement apt, with 1 window and a loser boyfriend who started the oil fire on the stove. In my mind I guess I was freaking and helpless to help her.

All of the sudden BOOM my chest hurt like I never felt before. I laid down on the cool hardwood floors chest down and endured the intense excruciating pain. I grabbed my phone on the way down, for the minutes I laid on the floor taking the pain I just stared at the phone, I knew I couldn't speak so I just laid there.

When it was all over, somewheres around between 5-10 minutes, I called 911. Within 3 minutes I heard the sirens on my street, both Fire and Ambulance are just down the street from my condo. I was still laid up on the floor when the Fire Dept arrived. I managed to get up and open the door but the entire time I was talking to 911 I did it from the floor I couldn't move.

Once they all arrived they put heartbeat monitors on all over my body, took blood pressure and I told them what happened just before the pain. They said I am most likely concerned for my daughter and I had a panic attack ...would I like to go to the hospital? I said well what the hell is a panic attack? EMS says that I am probably under alot of stress. So I say ok well I guess I just stay home and try not to stress out.

They leave, I have a couple more drinks and smokes, actually I was tweeting before and after my heart attack not consciously knowing I just suffered through one. I finally pass out, wake up around 10 am go for a sip of juice in the fridge and BOOM it hits me again. I'm like WTF I go lay down. Crazy pain in my chest. I just lay in bed trying not to stress out. After a few minutes the pain passes. I call my daughter, her phone is off.

I get up have coffee and smoke, try not to stress out about my kid but all kinds of shit is running through my mind. I think they went to sleep and got carbon monoxide, my kid is dead. I keep calling her phone, its shut off or the battery is dead. BOOM I have another heart attack. I go back to bed, now I am thinking oh I m probably having another panic attack cuz i cant reach my kid. So after that chest pain passed I just laid in my bed resting, trying to tell myself that she is alright and if this chest pain comes on again I am calling 911.

Sure enough it hits me a few minutes later again. And once again I keep thinking its only because I cant reach her. I dont call until after the next BOOM when it just rips my chest apart and I cant take the pain anymore.

Same thing fire and ambulance arrive within 3-4 minutes, they put the heart monitors on and this time their diagnosis says that the monitor shows "something happened to my heart in the past" and we are taking you to the hospital.

There was no question if I'd like to go ...just that they were taking me. In the ambulance they gave me aspirin and nitro spray.

The Doc figured I most likely had a heart attack but the 4 more the next day I shouldn't have lived through...all of them!! lol My blood work had them confused. So they kept repeating the blood work. It was about 12 hours later that they admitted me and next morning I had all kinds of tests. Then I got on the treadmill to do the stress test and I don't know what happened exactly (if he just received my latest blood work results)...I took a few steps and the Doc said STOP, you had a heart attack!

Next morning they wired me with a stent via my wrist while I watched on the monitors.

So now a year later I still can't stop thinking about it. I did what I had to do to save and prolong my life...I called 911. I dont know what saved me ...perhaps it was the alcohol that preserved my heart ...my grandpa in Poland lived to 99.5 on vodka :shocking:

 

[LickingGravity]

SAP = standard ambulatory procedure