Hello im 36 and just had a heart attack.
Hi! Im going to post my story here because I dont have anywhere else to post it. I am 36 and that makes it difficult to relate to people who are in a similar situation as me as I am young.
Real quick a little about me. Im 36 I ran a lawn and landscape company solo since 2011. I was very physically fit and very strong. I have a wife and 2 teen kiddos and I was living a fairly normal life.
March 25 I had a persistent cough that was really bothering me and that morning I woke my wife up because I was having trouble breathing. She tried to take me to urgent care but it was closed for training so we went to the E.R.. this part I dont remember I dont remember walking into the doors so this is what I was told. In the e.r I kept repeating can't breath chest hurts. They ignored me I layed on the floor and lost consciousness they said I had a near fainting experience. There is more mistreatment here but I dont need to get into that, when they finally got me back they wanted to give me a ct and I coded on the table. As my wife watched them bring me out of the room lifeless they started cpr and for 61 minutes many nurses broke many ribs. A different hospital brought their ecmo equipment to me(apparently this was unheard of) they put me on ecmo and took me to their hospital. For 1 week on was out I was on life support. I did wake up without any brain damage thankfully!
Now they do the many tests and many meds that im on and find out first I had a widowmaker heart attack, and second I have a genetic problem(that both my kids apparently have we just tested them) I have permanent heart failure and am currently at 35%. My frustration to not being able to do what I thought of as simple things is immense. Im wearing a life vest from zoll and will be getting a permanent defibrillator soon.
My frustrations are alot and I hate this life vest it goes off any time I do anything relatively physical. I lost 35lb in hospital and it was all my muscle my physical abilities are stupid right now. The sodium restrictions are so hard I went from eating whatever to rabbit food. I hate sitting around all day "healing" I want to do things im a hyper person.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk lol.