It has certainly been a crazy week for me. Last week we began to start seeing more trucks to unload. My first day of extra trucks was going great. It was hot in that trailer with no fan to move air but we were rocking it. We receivers can have water with us since we don't interact with customers. I put away about a litre every hour. At lunch time a couple of guys and I walked out to the gas station for ice tea and candy bars. Walking back I got real light-headed and needed to sit down for a minute. I sat down on the garden centre plant bench and from there just kind of melted to the ground. My boss came up just a few minutes after that and ran to get me a wheel chair. She and a couple of guys got me into the chair and pushed me back into the store and the cool A/C. The coolness helped but wasn't enough to prevent a second episode. So they called the EMTs. And I got a ride in the ambulance to the hospital.
I was dehydrated and had a build up of lactic acid which paralyzed my muscles. Something they called a Near Syncope. Happens a lot in military boot camp and with body builders. They kept me overnight at the hospital and I had an echo stress test the next day. I had had a routine echo just on Monday. But whatever the cardiologist saw with the stress test triggered a heart cath.
Cath was today and revealed an 80% blockage in my LAD, left anterior descending coronary artery.
So guess who gets to see the heart surgeon for another open heart surgery?
Funny thing is that I haven't had any signs or symptoms that might have revealed the blockage. If it wasn't for nearly fainting I wouldn't have known I had a problem. So I guess I got lucky.
I stopped at TSC on the way home. They had chicks they called "Mystic Marans". Never heard of them before. Some kind of cross maybe?
Hi all and hope everyone stayed safe through the storms this week and are enjoying the mild temps today.
, and tv and landline got funky for a bit. The temp and humidity drop was a blessing yesterday afternoon.
