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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Definitely heart.
Here's my story, please take from it and do not do what I did... (LONG STORY)
First heart attack was 3 days after Thanksgiving, 2018. It presented as really bad heartburn. 24 hour a day heartburn. Unrelenting, unresponsive to Pepto heartburn.
In my defense it WAS 3 days after Thanksgiving, and I DID have that extra plate of sweet potatoes.
Monday, heartburn all day, hard to sleep.
Tuesday, same.
Wednesday, same + nausea and vomiting, called out sick from work (yes, I worked Mon/Tue).Thursday... The heartburn pain moved into my upper arms, which I did not know was a thing. The pain in my chest was gone, but it felt like I had a STONE in the center of my chest, heavy, pulling down on my innards.
Advice line sent me to the ER, ER ran a simple Troponin blood test, normal is 0-99, mine was 328. Confirming the heart attack but at this point the damage was done and the only fix was an open heart bypass. Doc tells me the heavy feeling was my heart, each heartbeat was only pumping out 30% the normal amount which is right on the line between "walking around, talking to people", and no longer "walking around, talking to people."
Thu-Sun - Cardiac Ward.
Mon - Open Heart Surgery, ICU.
Tue - ICU.
Wed-Fri - Cardiac Ward, and back home.1/2/2019 - I start having complications. If I lie down, I can't breathe, it's like I'm drowning in my own bed... BUUUUT... My company got acquired by a new one on 1/1 which meant my health insurance changed, I lost my hospital and all of my doctors and had to start over in a new medical system with the new insurance.
"Oh, you can't just 'go' to Cardology, you have to see primary care first, and there's a 3 month wait."
Twisted some arms, explained I just got cut open like a lobster and couldn't breathe, got an appt. in 2 weeks.
So I bought a fancy travel pillow and slept sitting up for 2 weeks since laying down would drown me.
Primary care checks me out, sends me home, says "Wait for my call." Call comes the next day... Congestive Heart Failure, get to the ER immediately.
I had developed an irregular heartbeat and my chest was full of fluid, when I would lay down, the fluid would level, crushing my heart and lungs. That feeling like I was drowning? Yeah, I was drowning, in my own chest fluid.
7 days in the hospital, they pulled 4 liters of fluid out EVERY DAY. 48 pounds of fluid.
Over the course of 2019 it was one complication after another after another. We continued juggling meds of different types and dosages.
By 2024 I had a bout where I was seriously out of breath, not like the CHF drowning thing, but I'd get out of breath walking to the bathroom.
Doc sends me to the ER where I have the 2nd heart attack. In the middle of a snow and ice storm. And a power outage.
"Did I just have a stroke?"
"Naw, it's cool, emergency generator just kicked in..."
Because of the snow and ice, I couldn't get to my preferred hospital, I had to go to the closest one, which wasn't the best one.
They did confirm the heart attack, and ran an angiogram to confirm I needed a stent, but couldn't do the stent. I'd have to be ambulanced to the GOOD hospital for the stent.
BUUUT... emergency services were overloaded due to the storm and the ambulance couldn't get there right away.
First night in the hospital... wake up at 6 AM, fiddling around on my phone, hey, Lemmy aint gonna moderate itself!
Nurse comes in:
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart rate dropped to 40."
"Ummm... is that bad? I don't know these things."
Yeah, it's bad.
So ambulance still can't get there... One more night in the hospital. Same deal. Next morning, same nurse comes in.
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why? Heart rate again?"
"No, your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
"Ummm... 'thank you'? I don't know what the correct response is to 'your heart stopped'. Shouldn't the alarms and stuff have gone off? I don't remember hearing anything."
"Oh, they don't go off in the room, they went off at the nurses station."
Ambulance finally arrived, got me to the GOOD hospital, and I got the stent and survived.
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i don't know but at my funeral i want to be fired out of a cannon with confetti
Maybe they will incorrectly claim you've died, and then your cause of death will be being fired out of a cannon with confetti. That'd be one for the record books.
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Na, already been zapped at 240v mains voltage didn't do much.
I would read a book about a mild-mannered IT expert who simply can't be killed, but otherwise goes about their job normally.
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Gas station pizza roll? Respect.
That's just how I roll.
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Something stemming from me being overweight.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]1 car accident
2 age related (heart attack, cancer, getting sick when too old to deal with normal sicknesses)
3 firearms accident
4 house fire
5 underestimating a sickness
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Maybe they will incorrectly claim you've died, and then your cause of death will be being fired out of a cannon with confetti. That'd be one for the record books.
Have a motion activated speaker in your pocket so that when you do get fired, it screams “wait, I’m aliiiiiive… aaaaargh!”
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Considering the 30+ year long streak of pure good luck in my life I'll probably get cancer when I hit 50.
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some prick in an oversized truck
Or someone texting and driving.
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Some kind of vascular accident or cancer I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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On March 4th, 2033 at 6:32am local time I will trip and fall walking downstairs. Where I will smack my head on the newel post at the bottom, breaking my neck and causing a severe skull fracture. I will lie semi-conscious on the floor for the next 16 minutes and 27 seconds before expiring at 6:50am local time.
I don't know what happens after that.
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Most likely inappropriate sarcasm. Or an angry mob. What.....I'm not a people person, okay??
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God willing, age? Natural death as they call it, ideally 85+. If not, probably lung or stomach cancer. Hopefully in my old age, again.
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Most likely a skiing/mountain biking/car/surfing/hiking/tragic boating accident would be my best guess, other than cancer... If you're not suicidal, a risk taker or into extreme sports it's most likely going to be cancer though
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A total breakdown of society at some point in the next decade
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My most likely cause of death is the same as most men my age:
Falling off a ladder.
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Suicide as my body/finances will have deteriorated to the point where life isn't worth living.
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Cancer
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Heart attack
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Just like the old fortune teller said!
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Barring any sort of major accident. Almost certainly suicide.
But not in an "I'm depressed, get me out of here by any means necessary kind of way."
More in the, if I have terminal disease, or am otherwise going to be suffering a slow painful death, or I'll be a burden to those around me because of health limitations, I'll take myself out of the equation quite logically and happily.
So in that regard, there are only two possibilities; sudden accident, or taking care of it myself when the alternative is a slow decline.
And yes, old age is just another terminal disease, just on a longer timescale.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]I'm Canadian. I'll probably die in an internment camp for Trump Derangement Syndrome when the US annexes us.
