John's Heart Attack

Memorial Day night we had gone over to Gee Gee and Paw Paw's for dinner and had a wonderful time. We all got home and gotten in bed when John woke me up saying he wasn't feeling well and it wasn't passing like it usually did. He wanted to go to the hospital. I called Gee Gee to come stay with the kids and took Daddy to the ER After checking his blood pressure (176/114) and heart rate (110) they took him on back and did a ton of lab work. His lab work showed that he had had a heart attack, though it didn't present itself in the "textbook fashion". He just had a lot of burning in his chest. He spent the night in Pleasant Valley Monday and Tuesday night and was transported to St. John's in Oxnard on Wednesday morning. The doctors did an angiogram on Wednesday morning and placed a stent in his back artery, which was 99% blocked. Dr. Zager told me that he was extremely lucky they caught it when they did because he could have just dropped dead. So for all of you out there, age doesn't make a difference. John is only 43. Take care of yourselves so you don't have to put your family through what we've been through this week.