It’s been almost exactly one week since my heart attack. I’ve been surprised by the whole thing.
My father’s side of the family has a history of heart disease. I expected to have a heart attack sometime, but I thought it would kill me. Instead it was relatively pain free, I didn’t have the “elephant on my chest” feeling at all. I had pain radiating down from my armpits to elbows, aching teeth/jaw, and I threw up. Once the slightest chest pain started, I went to the ER. My pain never went above a 6 on a scale of 1-10.
That the whole thing would be so pain free and resolved so quickly blew me away. Within two hours of it first starting it was essentially over. The most painful thing in the whole process was the lidocaine injection in my leg. It burned a lot for a few seconds.
I’m now OK and I realize, thanks to my brother-in-law, that you are the one I need to worry about. My plumbing is being attended to and I have a very good prognosis. Your plumbing is another matter.
Any hopes I had, during my most depressed times, of dying of a heart attack are dashed. I guess I’ll have to switch to hoping for a brain aneurism.
For about 4-5 days I didn’t have cancer. This heart stuff was at the forefront, and the prognosis was very good. It was wonderful.
The sixth day was tough; that was when the reality of my cancer returned. Now I’m used to it again. I can now be quite confident that cancer will kill me before heart disease. Next week I get blood work and we decide on the next course of cancer treatment.
Stay tuned.
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Surviving a heart attack when you have cancer is definitely a mixed blessing but I’m glad you did!
Thanks!
As I get older the number of health issues that have to be attended to just gets larger.
Glad to hear you’ve made it through. Here’s hoping the next stage in the cancer treatment is as successful.
Does seem the number of issues keep rising. Guess it’s just part of the game.
Of course I am so happy that this episode had a successful outcome. And thank you for sharing your thoughts with such insight. It provokes all of us to consider things we might otherwise bury our heads about.
Take care! Sending good thoughts your way!
I have an attorney friend who keeps on truckin-even after 2 heart attacks, prostate cancer, a stroke, back surgery, and too many other ailments. he is a walking talking miracle. We read your blog often, surprised at this latest news, but not surprised that you came through it and are stronger. You are meant to be around to teach, laugh and cry with all of us. Hang in there-Vickie and Paul
Thank you for such kind words and sentiments. I hope you’re right.
That sounds so surreal, but I understand exactly what you meant when you wrote that the cancer disappeared for a while, and then howcrushing it was to have the knowledge of it return. Sending healing thoughts.
I could never have imagined that having a heart attack would bring me relief. Such is life with cancer.
I hope the recovery from the heart attack continues to go well, and best thoughts for the blood work and the further plan of treatment. A heart attack that brings temporary relief…, life with cancer indeed. Thank you for sharing.
Well, crap, another thing on your plate! Then again, plates keep getting bigger. You have such broad shoulder, figuratively, and I know you’re tough enough for this. Dare I say, welcome back to the Cancer Craze? All of us here are rooting hard for you!!! Let us know what the next course of treatment will be.
Thinking of you and your wife, hope you are off on a wonderful trip somewhere…..
Thank you so much. We actually are off on a trip right now, in the Med. We’ll be back soon, though. I’m working on a new post now, been too long since I’ve put anything up.
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