Prayers needed for Lockedhearts DH and for her.

[mississippifarmboy]

Prayers sent, I know how hard it is on you both.

 

[Martin Grove Farm]

Although I am new here and don't know of whom you are speaking of. I will most definitely pray for them. The power of prayer is real, even from strangers. God bless!

 

[chickencrazymamahen]

Prayers for you and your family!!!

 

[babymakes6]

Adding my prayers too. It is definitely going to take faith as well as sacrifices.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

Hope all goes well. Prayers to all.

 

[coloradochick]

Prayers and get well wishes going out

 

[jbowyer01]

Hope all is going well. Keeping them in my prayers.

 

[speckledhen]

Any news about Don? Been thinking about him and Karen the last couple days.

 

[Pumpkinpup]

Update: Don is home for now and doing well. He will have to go back for another stint towards the end of this month. When I have news I will pass it along. Keep the prayers comming folks, they are going to need them to get through this as Karen is unemployed for now and Don is the bread winner. I don't need to tell you how that is going to impact them.

 

[lockedhearts]

Wanted to come here quickly and post.
First: Thank you all for the prayers, they mean a lot!
Don is home and feeling better everyday, his main artery was completely blocked and he now has a stint in the artery and is on several medications everyday. He is scheduled to return to the Hospital on the 17th to receive a second stint in another artery that is 90% blocked.
His doctor expects a full recovery from this, however he will be out of work for at least 8 weeks. He gets one more full check (thanks to banked sick time ) and then we have Short Term Disability, which pays a small penance compared to his actual pay. I have been unemployed for over 2 years and no longer receive unemployment benefits and have not yet found a job. I am most concerned about my animals, and although I have so far been able to feed them, it is going to be tough for the next few weeks. So continued prayers would be appreciated.

Second: I have attached a note Don wrote as he was recovering, I urge everyone who reads this to pass it along, pay attention to the signs, even if you think they are nothing, it never hurts to get checked out.


Heart Health - Please Read it could save your life.
by Donald Lockhart on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 8:19pm

This message goes out to all to reevaluate your health. I am currently in the hospital recovering from a massive heart attack. I am suppose to go home today, so I am keeping my fingers crossed. The signs have been there that this was going to happen. They were just masked or associated with some other condition. But now that I have had time to lay here and look back through the last couple years there was a big NEON sign saying hey bud wake up and realize what is going on. I am going to post another message to explain the signs and why they were over looked. But first I just want to say the Tanner Hospital has been fantastic. I have been in the care of some of the best Nurses anyone could have. The Doctor did a great job unfortunately I will have to go through this again to have the rest of the heart issues taken care of. But I have all the confidence in the world that all will go well.



This was a post I made last Thursday. Now for the signs that were there that were just associated with another condition.



1st - I was diagnosed a couple years ago with High Blood Pressure buy my Family Doctor (General Practitioner), this was one of those cases I should have insisted on seeing a Cardiologist. I was placed on medication.



2nd - I had a Root Canal about 6 years ago, last year the tooth cracked, couple months after I noticed the crack I was in pain so I took Advil & Aspirin for the pain. I finally had the tooth removed and the Dentist said I needed to have Root Canal on another tooth. And of course I still had pain so I attributed that to the other tooth and kept taking pain meds.



3rd - I had just changed diets and cut out a lot of sugars, carbohydrates and bad cholesterol. Which included totally stopping the consumption of Soda's.



These are the three main signs. The reasons these were over looked are as follows: The Blood Pressure medication was a blood thinner, the aspirin as acts as a blood thinner. These two items allowed the blood to pass through my closing arteries. The pain in my teeth & jaws were also a sign of heart issues not the teeth (funny how I do not have mouth pain now). I noticed I was tired a lot recently but this was associated with the change of diet and lack of caffeine.



The moral to my long winded story is to GET A SECOND OPINION and to make sure all the little health issues you might have are what you think they are. I would hate for anyone to go through what I just and still have to go through. PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES!