Isnt getting old fun?

[Chiefster23]

The latest adventures in aging:
I’ve been having cardiac symptoms for months so last week I had a stress test. BOOM! Yesterday I had my first heart cath. (Probably more coming, too). The Dr. installed 3 stents then off to the recovery room. After about 15 minutes I developed chest pain, chills, the shakes and things were going downhill fast. The Dr was recalled and I was rushed back into the procedure room. Turns out there was an issue with stent placement and I was developing clots in my heart. So a 4th stent was placed to repair the problem.
I received a map of my heart showing crud build-up in 4 other blood vessels. I’m wondering what the rest of my body’s plumbing looks like? The family Dr has had me on statins for chlorestoral for years. Isn’t that supposed to prevent this shit from happening? I was too far out of it for questions yesterday but me and the PCP are gonna have a heart to heart talk next week. The asshole that put me on statins also told me that the vaccine was perfectly safe and effective too. Getting old sucks. And turns out you can’t trust your Doctors either.

[T-Man 1066]

Good grief Chiefster! Hopefully the surgeon got it right this time.

I do 100% agree about high levels of distrust for doctors.

[Hawg]

Yikes! Yeah the golden years are a lie.

[Dwight]

Doctors are just like any other mechanic . . . can seriously screw up. Almost killed my friend . . . told us in the AM . . . "I'm gonna do this . . . that . . . etc." . . . came in afterwards . . . "I did that . . . that . . . and another that" . . . none of which lined up with the earlier things.

Buddy had to be rushed back into surgery . . . never did get a doc to come out and tell us what happened.

Figured the second guy fixed what the first guy screwed up . . . and was not blabbing about it.

Jim really ain't been his old self ever since.

Fortunately . . . my ticker problem was the aortic valve . . . cut it out . . . inserted a pig valve . . . been AOK since Jan of '08.

And I count myself blessed at having several good doctors . . . they seem to take their jobs seriously . . .

May God bless,
Dwight

[Texas PO]

My Dad always said getting old was not for the faint of heart and he is right. Sometimes I wake up with a new pain in my body and I think: "Oh what fresh hell is this"? Don't even get me started on doctors and insurance companies, I try to avoid both like the plaque.

Glad to here they got it figured out and your on the mend Chiefster. Plan on sticking around for a long while, we need guys like you.

[red442joe]

Occasionally I wake up with no pain, new or old.
Scares hell outta me, I think I died...

Joe

[Sasquatch]

Sorry to hear this Chiefster. Definitely scary stuff. Those clots are nothing to mess with either. I still have a titanium "umbrella" in my groin stopping any clots from my leg from going up into my heart or brain. That'll be fun to remove. My only advice to you is, when you can, get up and move. Even if its just a little, you gotta keep the body moving. Also pray, I'll be doing that one for you too.

[T-Man 1066]

Sorry to hear this Chiefster. Definitely scary stuff. Those clots are nothing to mess with either. I still have a titanium "umbrella" in my groin stopping any clots from my leg from going up into my heart or brain. That'll be fun to remove. My only advice to you is, when you can, get up and move. Even if its just a little, you gotta keep the body moving. Also pray, I'll be doing that one for you too.

T-Woman 1066 has one of them, I believe it's called a "Greenburg filter". That is why she is disabled. Blood clot to her lungs the morning after T-Son 1066 was born, while walking with nurses at the hospital. Brain injury from that.

Any time I hear "blood clot" my hackles go up, because I know how serious it can become. This happened 25 years ago.

[Slippy]

The latest adventures in aging:
I’ve been having cardiac symptoms for months so last week I had a stress test. BOOM! Yesterday I had my first heart cath. (Probably more coming, too). The Dr. installed 3 stents then off to the recovery room. After about 15 minutes I developed chest pain, chills, the shakes and things were going downhill fast. The Dr was recalled and I was rushed back into the procedure room. Turns out there was an issue with stent placement and I was developing clots in my heart. So a 4th stent was placed to repair the problem.
I received a map of my heart showing crud build-up in 4 other blood vessels. I’m wondering what the rest of my body’s plumbing looks like? The family Dr has had me on statins for chlorestoral for years. Isn’t that supposed to prevent this shit from happening? I was too far out of it for questions yesterday but me and the PCP are gonna have a heart to heart talk next week. The asshole that put me on statins also told me that the vaccine was perfectly safe and effective too. Getting old sucks. And turns out you can’t trust your Doctors either.

Statins are not what they were sold to us as. Hang in there Chief!

[Chiefster23]

Sorry to hear this Chiefster. Definitely scary stuff. Those clots are nothing to mess with either. I still have a titanium "umbrella" in my groin stopping any clots from my leg from going up into my heart or brain. That'll be fun to remove. My only advice to you is, when you can, get up and move. Even if its just a little, you gotta keep the body moving. Also pray, I'll be doing that one for you too.

One of the blockages was very long. So the Dr placed two stents , nose to tail, in the artery. But he left a very tiny gap between the 2 ends of the stents. This is where the clots formed. He had to go back in and place the 3rd stent inside the original two to bridge this gap. I’m not sure if this constitutes a mistake on his part or just bad luck on my part. Anyway, I’m feeling fine now.

I’ve seen articles outlining the insane amounts of $ spent on health care for seniors. I never believed in those published numbers. But now I’m seeing this first hand. Two new knees, one new shoulder, and now stents. The costs are crazy. I was a healthy guy and went years without ever seeing a doctor. But things are sure different now.

[Sasquatch]

I’ve seen articles outlining the insane amounts of $ spent on health care for seniors. I never believed in those published numbers. But now I’m seeing this first hand. Two new knees, one new shoulder, and now stents. The costs are crazy. I was a healthy guy and went years without ever seeing a doctor. But things are sure different now.

I've gotten a sneak peak at my cost and it's already well over a million.

[Texas PO]

When Melissa passed away I got a look at just some of the numbers. Frightening.

[1skrewsloose]

No shit, eh, just had cataract and glaucoma surgery on both eyes, $40G a piece, for 15 minutes work per eye. I only had to pay $1050 per eye.

[T-Man 1066]

On a lighter note, I got carded for beer yesterday at the gas station. I'm 52 with a receding hairline, and peppered red / gray / white hair. The store clerk needs better glasses!

[1skrewsloose]

Dude, you messed up, was she good looking? That has happened to me before, at first I thought she was trying to be cute, later I realized she was hitting on me. ymmv.

[Texas PO]

On a lighter note, I got carded for beer yesterday at the gas station. I'm 52 with a receding hairline, and peppered red / gray / white hair. The store clerk needs better glasses!

I look older then dirt and I still get carded at Wally World. I ask the checkout girl if it's because I look so young, right?

[shootbrownelk]

I'd like to see what all my "procedures" cost. Two knee replacements, right shoulder replacement, neck disc fusion, lower back disc fusion, throat surgery, and the latest was a quadruple bypass surgery. Not much left to replace or repair. As far as I'm concerned, the "Golden Years" really suck.

[Sasquatch]

Better than the alternative I suppose.

[LivoniaDan]

I'd like to see what all my "procedures" cost. Two knee replacements, right shoulder replacement, neck disc fusion, lower back disc fusion, throat surgery, and the latest was a quadruple bypass surgery. Not much left to replace or repair. As far as I'm concerned, the "Golden Years" really suck.

To the OP.....I was going to say that your dictionary and mine must read differently for the definition of FUN...


With my rare disease, I should get frequent flyer miles at the ER. I know that a fall causing two broken ribs was a $14000 visit.

Can't imagine your costs.... Sure am glad that Medicare covers what it does.

Haven't gotten to the "Replacement Part" or re-plumbing stage .... YET....

[StratBastard]

Sure glad I kept my Union rate federal Blue Cross/Blue Shield when I retired. Together with Medicare, I am double covered for a total of $409 a month for both. Hospitalized for a week in the ICU once, hospitalized for 5 days when they chopped off my big toe, and 3 days when I had an allergic reaction to a medication. Never paid a nickel.