Re: A warning. Please read.
Got prompted over here by TGR on your Raleigh thread HM.
Don't know you from Adam, of course, but I wish you the very best! Glad to hear you're in good hands as well as on the road to recovery. As for the photographed "self-rescue" back home...what can I say! "Hardy man...!" springs to mind!
For the benefit of others, if I may, an old friend of mine found himself in a similar position on Dec 28th past. 55, carrying some weight but been losing it, not a huge drinker historically, I have an idea he may have smoled way back but not sure and certainly not during the 25 years I have known him, complaining during the day of indigestion and some lower chest discomfort rather than pain but....tingling pains in his upper arms which is where the brachial arteries pass.
Later in the evening, they had friends in and, after dinner, he didn't feel any better and retired early. At 2am, he "took a notion" (his own words), put on his coat and cap, roused his son out of bed and took himself off to hospital. He sent the lad home, observing that "I'll be here a while, you know how it is. I'll call you when I'm ready!"
He presented himself inside, gave his details and within a matter of only a couple of minutes, he had a nurse taking his BP. She took it three times to be sure but he knew summat was astray when she started calling "I need a room, I need a ROOM, I NEED A ROOM.....NOW...!"
His BP was 190/140.
The consultant appeared a while later after he had been stabilised to observe "You're a very, very lucky man, Mr. W...! There have been people who have presented here with symptoms less extreme than you and they didn't make it!"
End result, one stent, a new lifestyle and meds to go with only minor residual damage to the heart.
Lucky scarcely describes it.
Once again, best wishes and good luck with the recovery - hope you enjoy many miles on the new bike!
