DrPhil
Outstanding Member
I haven't had one, but my 82 year old dad has.
The moral of the story is don't be a typical stubborn fool when you have unexplained pain.
He had agonising stomach pain on Friday morning, assumed it was just something that would pass. Also had arm pain intermittently for a few weeks that he didn't feel inclined to mention to us...
Finally announced on Friday evening that he had a sore stomach and felt unwell earlier but was fine by that stage and was off to bed. We took him to the GP Saturday morning who sent him to the hospital where it was decided that his stomach pain had actually been a heart attack.
So be aware you old (and young) farts of AVF, you don't need to have the classic signs of a heart attack, crushing pain in the chest, sweats, nausea etc to be having a heart attack. My dad is a very healthy 82, on no medication at all (until now) and is as shocked as we all are that his heart is giving him gip.
Better safe than sorry.
The silly sausage got himself a helicopter transfer to another hospital and is now waiting for angiogram followed by stents and/or pacemaker but it looks like he'll be fine.
The moral of the story is don't be a typical stubborn fool when you have unexplained pain.
He had agonising stomach pain on Friday morning, assumed it was just something that would pass. Also had arm pain intermittently for a few weeks that he didn't feel inclined to mention to us...
Finally announced on Friday evening that he had a sore stomach and felt unwell earlier but was fine by that stage and was off to bed. We took him to the GP Saturday morning who sent him to the hospital where it was decided that his stomach pain had actually been a heart attack.
So be aware you old (and young) farts of AVF, you don't need to have the classic signs of a heart attack, crushing pain in the chest, sweats, nausea etc to be having a heart attack. My dad is a very healthy 82, on no medication at all (until now) and is as shocked as we all are that his heart is giving him gip.
Better safe than sorry.
The silly sausage got himself a helicopter transfer to another hospital and is now waiting for angiogram followed by stents and/or pacemaker but it looks like he'll be fine.