Adirondack case guy
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Well, things didn't go as everyone thought they would. Doctors turned me loose back last Wed. Did nothing strenious as they said. Didn't want to rip the plug loose where they accessed my vein to install stents. Friday, I got to feeling real bad, and had the wifey drive me to the hospital about 1:30pm. About 2:30 all ---- broke loose. Saw the hooded guy with a seyth headed across the field. Managed to get the old body in reverse and found enough bite to back off the stump, after 3 nitros, and morephene. The ER staff got me back functioning and did a CT scan, thinking that I may have a ruptured aorta. Nope, it was OK. Spent Friday night there, and BP went back to normal. Docs changed my meds around again. Came home Sat., with new meds, but things wern't wright yet. Couldn'd get up and go to the outhouse without my BP skyrocketing. Had another Angina type attack again Mon. afternoon, but a nitro pill took care of that.
Had a follow up appointment with my cancer doc. this morning, and wanted to take my hourly journal since Sun. morning with my hourly BP readings to the heart doctor. Got ushered in to talk to a nurse practioner, who filled in all the ?????? that the doctors didn't. She changed my meds again and this time I take the BP med twice a day instead of once, so there is no laps in my estimation. Beth and I liked her a lot, and am confident that we are now on the correct path. Feeling much better this afternoon.
Some of this may have been due to stress from setting on my butt and not being able to do any kind of work. Our garden is a full harvest, and the wife has been working into the wee hours to can and freeze vegies, plus be with me at the hospital, and I could do little to help her. I have to be doing something constructive to be happy. I was able to snip beans and shuck peas after Beth picked them. My big Case project was to change the color of an ornimental nome tractor to Case colors. That Red tractor just didn't fit. HeHe.
That turkey buzzard started hanging around the back yard Sunday, but I guess he got sick of waighting for me to croke. The wifey caned and froze 137 qt.jars and freezer packs of vegies last week. I am itching to finish the fireplace. Need to set the tile flue and finish the stone work, which I started before all this heart crap started.
Had a follow up appointment with my cancer doc. this morning, and wanted to take my hourly journal since Sun. morning with my hourly BP readings to the heart doctor. Got ushered in to talk to a nurse practioner, who filled in all the ?????? that the doctors didn't. She changed my meds again and this time I take the BP med twice a day instead of once, so there is no laps in my estimation. Beth and I liked her a lot, and am confident that we are now on the correct path. Feeling much better this afternoon.
Some of this may have been due to stress from setting on my butt and not being able to do any kind of work. Our garden is a full harvest, and the wife has been working into the wee hours to can and freeze vegies, plus be with me at the hospital, and I could do little to help her. I have to be doing something constructive to be happy. I was able to snip beans and shuck peas after Beth picked them. My big Case project was to change the color of an ornimental nome tractor to Case colors. That Red tractor just didn't fit. HeHe.
That turkey buzzard started hanging around the back yard Sunday, but I guess he got sick of waighting for me to croke. The wifey caned and froze 137 qt.jars and freezer packs of vegies last week. I am itching to finish the fireplace. Need to set the tile flue and finish the stone work, which I started before all this heart crap started.