Immediate First Aid for Heart Attack (by one who's been there.)

Life's experience ^ | July 15, 2002 | basil

[MrsTexasChip]

basil needs some more prayer. I spoke to her this morning and she doesn't sound good at all. She thinks the medications the doctor has her on are causing her to be very dizzy and nauseated.

She is bedridden today, and is waiting for a call from her doctor regarding the medications. She's also very frustrated that she can't get up and do things. Please continue praying for her.

[MrsTexasChip]

John, could you please help spread the word about basil with your ping list? See my post #201

[Fred Mertz]

Will do.

[MrsTexasChip]

Thanks Fred! Hope you are doing well.

[MrsTexasChip]

bttt

[MrsTexasChip]

Bump. Please see post #201

[maxwell]

Hang in there, chick... God is watching out for you...

FReegards,
Max

[exit82]

Basil, thanks for sharing your story with all of us. Glad you are still here with us--we need you here at FreeRepublic!

[MrsTexasChip]

BASIL NEEDS MORE PRAYER!

Please see post #201

basil has spoken with her doctor about her medications, and it seems that it will take some time to get them adjusted for her.

[Angelwood]

I spoke to basil this morning and she is feeling better after a bad day. Please send more prayers and good wishes her way.

[MrsTexasChip]

Angelwood, thank you for the update.

[basil]

Thanks for your concern.I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting bored with this whole subject.

Here's the last word: I'm still very weak, and will have to realize that this will be a slow recovery. Otherwise, I seem to be going along okay--cutting back on two of the meds has really helped.

Once again, thanks for all the concern and prayers. I sincerely appreciate all my FReeper FRiends!

[anymouse]

Welcome back Basil, glad to hear that you are still with us.

I know that FR has "heart stopping" suspense in our war on political illiteracy, but we didn't think that you would take it literally. ;)

Hopefully Mr. Basil is suceeding in slowing you down a bit, as there is more to warding off heart desease than aspirin and good medical care. We all want you to stick around to help clean up the all-to-liberal Ausin and make it safe for liberty loving Texans again.

Did you ask them for the "Dick Cheney special" pacemaker? :)

[anymouse]

Those d@mn cardio stress tests ought to be banned. What makes docs. think that pushing your cardio system into overload is a good thing? As if doing the same thing to your car would make it run better.

Any decent test pilot knows that you push the boundaries of the flight test envelope incrementally, one parameter at a time.

[anymouse]

Yep, those of us dealing with Athesma (or other aflictions where the blood thinning effects of aspirin would not be a good thing) shouldn't be taking asprin routinely, unless under doctor's orders.

[R2]

Very interesting narative, basil. Glad you are getting better. Don't let the doctors push you around, most of them are drug pushers on the manufacturers dole. Good that you have two.

[cyn]

"And one final bit that may be of interest to some of you: Each of the four times that I was experiencing the convulsing episodes, I was in complete cardiac arrest (complete heart stoppage).

dear basil, I'm so glad you are all right. Thank you for taking the time to write this out, and to explain what the convulsions were. Your mind and every fiber of your being must have been screaming for help, though no one outside heard a sound. I'm so grateful that God heard!

[yoe]

What a delightful recount of a life threatening event. Thank you so much for sharing it and I DO take an aspirin every day. I had a small stroke last year, it lasted some four days before I realized I couldn’t write. I was under a lot of stress, mostly of my own making, including hyperventilating over Hillary!

I gather you are doing very well now and that is marvelous. God, bless.

[basil]

I don't know what revived this thread, as it's certainly old news, now.

However, I can report that I think I'm doing fine these days. We bought a dreaded treadmill (not a decorator item, is it--lol!) and I'm dutifully pumping away every day--what a crashing bore those 30 minutes are!

For those of you who knew we had an impending wedding (our daughter, pesto's) when this event occurred, I'm happy to report that when the happy day came, everything went off beautifully! I had even managed to get rid of most of my bruising, so I felt good about that.

Pesto and her new hubby have just returned from their honeymoon in South Africa, and seem to be very happy.

Once again, thanks to everyone who remembered me in their prayers. I am convinced that your prayers helped me get over this so quickly.

Now--can we talk about something else.....

[My back yard]

Whatever reason this thread got bumped I'm glad that it did. I had missed it. I knew of your illness from the thread your daughter, I believe it was, had posted while you were in the hospital. So glad to read the follow-up about how the wedding went well too. And I will pass this on to all in my mailbox. This really surprised me, basil, because in pictures I have seen of you, you are about my age, maybe a little older, and maybe more fit. You look in good shape to me. This really is a wake-up for me. Stocking up aspirin tomorrow, and getting on that 'dread-mill'. 8^)