Life is Why! Join me in supporting the American Heart Association! I am a 13 year SURVIVOR of the widowmaker. I had a 90% blockage. My Cardiologists all say I'm very lucky to be alive. I now have an ICD. I have V-fib as My heart doesn't beat fast enough, but then every now and again I have A-Fib ! I had an ablation and the Watchman implanted. December 2018 and January of 2019, I had a TIA ... mini stroke. You never know when things like this can happen. My ICD fired on Sept. 7, 2019 due to V-TACH. My heart was beating too slow. My Cardiologist once again said, you are lucky to be alive. Without my ICD, I would have died that day . My device fired TWO TIMES on January 4, 2022 while I was sleeping. Once again, I was in AFib . My BP & Heart Rate were so high that I was UNCONSCIOUS in my sleep. I had NO KNOWLEDGE of my ICD FIRING until the call from my Dr the next morning. I have a monitor at my bedside that the drs check every morning. In an ambulance, enroute straight from Theresa to Upstate for admission. I was in arrhythmia the entire ride to Syracuse. Once again, my dr said. “ you are lucky you have that device or we wouldn’t be having a conversation right now”. I consider myself extremely lucky !!
♥♥This past summer, June 15 to be exact, I suffered a stroke & was hospitalized for two days . I have no residual effects. Again, I was hospitalized July 1 in Albany for heart rhythm complications. AFIB.
So today, February 10, I went by ambulance to the ER for another TIA last night. I was confused, dizzy & lost track of 8 hours. Thankfully I'm home but I was scared this morning due to extreme confusion last night.
In the beginning of March 2023, I had yet another TIA. I fell to the ground in an awkward position.
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This year I suffered another TIA on February 5 & was hospitalized. You never when things like this, cardiac arrest or heart attack are going to happen.