Near Death Experience.
It started out to be a usual Saturday, April 2004, with sunshine and the temperature was in the mid 70's today. I thought today I'm going to stay busy. Well, the morning started out kind of slow. I slept in this morning. I remember I thought it was around 10, o 'clock when I got up. My husband already made coffee for us two. I poured myself a good hot cup of coffee and drank another one. In the meantime it ended up being around 12,o' clock, my husband got ready and I thought I'll get ready later on. I started to do so some house chores by this time it was 2,o'clock. My husband and I warmed up some leftovers we had from the day before, for Lunch. Everything is still fine with me.
So I went outside to sweep the back porch and the sidewalks off. My neighbors are outside too, doing some yard work that they always do. When I was done sweeping, I let some water into the bucket and told my husband I'm going to wash the car. My neighbors seen me rinse the car off and yelled over to me, when I'm done with my car, I outta come over and do the same to their car. We both laughed about that comment and I told them both that I had enough to do over here.
I started to wash the top and then the windshield, but when I started to wash the hood, I started to feel an awful lot of pain in my upper stomach. I told my husband I had to go inside to take sum Tums but they did not work.My face felt clammy like a cool sweat and I got sick to my stomach. Of course I ended up vomiting. My body felt real weak and I hurried up to lay down. These horrible pains are more then a sour stomach. I thought this is more like a heat attack. I never felt so much pain in my entire life. The pains traveled clear through to my back down both arms clear down to my fingertips. It was about 4:10PM. I told my husband Harry, please call 911, but he thought the pains would subside pretty soon. Well, they didn't.
I said again, please call, he finally did call the emergency. My arms felt so weak I could not keep them on my body or next to me, they fell right back down. That's how weak I was at that point in time.
Finally the Emergency arrived at our house. When they checked everything they informed me and my husband, that I was indeed suffering a heart attack. So off I went in the ambulance to the hospital. my husband followed the ambulance to the hospital.I guess they had given me a clot buster, but that didn't work and the emergency doctor at the hospital, referred me to the Columbus hospital. So they wheeled me out to a helicopter that life lighted me to Columbus. The flight didn't last very long only twenty minutes.
As I was wheeled out of the helicopter, I thought we had landed on the roof.That's how it looked to me anyway. So I was admitted to Riverside Hospital. We went on an elevator and down a hallway, to the operating room. I was able to see what time it was it was 5;30PM. The pains where still the same like on a scale from on to ten they were a ten.
In the meantime my husband went to our sons apartment told him what had occurred, and then the both of them drove to Columbus, which is about an hours drive from our house. My husband informed me later on that the both of them kind of got lost on the way to the hospital, and it took them a little longer to find the place. Back to me, the wonderful doctors performed Angioplasty on me and placed a Stent into my heart.
This operation did not take very long at all, they worked really fast on me. Only a half on an hour that's all it took. After I was done I lay ed in recovery for two good hours. I thought that after they worked on me the pain would be gone, but no they lasted until 8:00PM in the evening. The nurse put me in ICU for one day. I finally was aloud to see my family. The next day after that they put me on another floor with another patient. I could finally take a shower. You have no idea how bad I felt, because I had postponed my shower that Saturday, I wanted to take it after I was done washing my car.
You should have seen me, here I was hooked up to an IV and a patch on the groin area, ready to take that shower, boy that felt good, I felt like a new person. I mean they let me wash up in ICU, but a shower is a shower , right? Well on Monday I was aloud to go home. That night I was scared to go to sleep, don't get me wrong, I was glad to be home again, but I was scared that I might not wake up after I went to sleep. I felt that way for quite some time I also started to feel very depressed. I heard from some elderly people that they basically went through the same kind of feelings. It takes time for the body to adjust, because everything goes slower, like waking stairs, and everyday chores,
I felt like I went in slow motion all the time. With every move I had to do. Like an elderly person. I was only 45 years old then. They say this doesn't happen to young folks, well it happened to me. This happened almost 7 years ago. In the meantime I went through three Catherizations, the Cath I had was three years ago and my Stent and artery are totally blocked, and the only reason I'm alive today, because small arteries have formed a bypass, to supply blood to my heart. I am a lucky person had an guardian angel over me. I had a close call I know, and the doctors pulled on of my legs back out of the grave.
They are my real Heroes for saving my life, also Homer Emergency, Lifelight. Thank you all so much.
And please don't hesitate CALL 911.
