[geeks] Health Update

[Kevin]

Very glad to hear you're still with us.

/KRM

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:09:22 -0500
Michael Schiller <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:

> Hi All.
> 
> Just in case any of you noticed I wasn't around lately, I thought I'd 
> give y'all an update. As you might know last month I had a heart 
> attack, and they had to put another stent in my heart. Well, slightly 
> more than a week ago, on Friday night/Saturday morning I started having 
> chest pains, so a friend drove me to the hospital (an hour drive, for a 
> total of 3 hours from when I first spoke to my friend to getting to the 
> hospital), and once there I was quickly taken into the ER. Of course 
> they gave me some shit about taking so much time to get to the hospital 
> while having a heart attack! While I was waiting for the test results 
> to come back my heart decided that it'd beat enough, and stopped. After 
> they resuscitated me they told me my heart had stopped for between 20 - 
> 30 seconds, and they preformed CPR to bring me back. Later in the day 
> they preformed another angiogram, and placed an additional 3 stents 
> into my heart, and informed me that I needed to have a pacemaker as 
> well. Apparently I have a slow/random heartbeat, a condition called 
> Bradycardia. The pacemaker was placed on Monday.

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