Heart problems for a 66 year old friend, Dan Baird

Sam,




I'm glad to hear you've go a clean bill of health from your doctor.

You have always appeared healthy to me.

I'm glad to be home and I'm feeling fine.



Dan





----- Original Message -----

From: Sam Kegley

To: Baird, Dan g

Cc: Jay Kegley ; Jeff Kegley

Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 4:57 AM

Subject: Re: About my heart attack . chest pain was not the first symptom and I never heard about the others





Interesting, Dan! I'm so glad you got the stint. The heart medics can do wonderful things to keep our hearts working.



I had my initial four by-pass operation in 1985 before meeting you at DSCC in 1987. My symptom was "shortness of breath" while cutting the grass or even walking across a field to a softball game. My cardiologists have followed me closely since and I had a four bypass of the initial bypasses again in 2005. I recently had a stress test and a thorough checkup and all appears well. I am forwarding this to my sons and will include it in my blog if you do not object. I am 78 and Dan is about ten years younger.



Sam









From: DBaird

Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 14:42

To: Baird, Dan g

Subject: About my heart attack . chest pain was not the first symptom and I never heard about the others





I hurt my knee about a year ago, I fought through the pain, it quit hurting unless I got down on my knee. The area of my knee that hurt was about the size of the palm of my hand, when I put cream on it the skin felt almost dead. So since it didn't hurt I forgot about it until I put direct pressure on the exact spot.

I had no chest pains.

Next symptom was pain in my right shoulder, this only bothered me when I tried to sleep on my right side.

I had no chest pains.

Next symptom was pain in my left shoulder, this only bothered me when I tried to sleep on my left side.

Next thing was on May 8th 2011, I went to a cook out and had brats, then at 2 AM I had chest pain but thought it was gas. I got dressed and told the wife I thought I should go to the emergency room. then I vomited, 90% of the pain was gone and I was certain it was gas. I checked with Google and it seems that many people confuse gas with heart problems. I slept fine but decided to see my doctor the next morning. After an EKG, blood work and chest xray I was scheduled to have a stress test in two weeks. A week later I mowed the lawn. I was stressed and breathing hard.

The wife called 911 and I never saw the squad. They revived me 4 times with the paddles. The doctor at the hospital removed the 100% blockage in the main artery to my heart and put a stint in to keep the vain open.



I was released after 4 days and I feel great. I am following my doctors orders to the letter as some of my friends already are.



My knee no longer hurts and I can now sleep on either side with no pain and I have no chest pain.



I may be the only person on earth with all these symptoms or warnings, IF I had thought they were symptoms... which I just blew off as pain old people sometimes get.

IF I had insisted that two weeks was too long to wait for a stress test.



As I left the hospital I was told that if I have more chest pains DO NOT try to drive your self to the emergency room, The squad can save your life. They saved mine along with the Lords help.



This was my experience and who knows, just maybe someone else will benefit from reading this.



Dan