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Date: April 25th, 2019 2:55 PM Author: anal field Got into this a little on the pulling over for flashing lights thread but there seems to be some interest so I’m making a separate post.
Typing on phone at work but will try to be detailed.
Almost a year ago out of the blue my wife experienced what is called SCAD which stands for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.
The most simple explanation is that your arteries have layers like an onion. SCAD occurs when the inner lining detaches. In most cases the patient may have a heart attack or chest pain and they can often put the patient on beta blockers and maybe put wires in to keep the blood flow open and watch them in the icu for a week and the dissection will re-attach.
In more severe cases they will need to stent. In a very small percentage of cases they will need to perform Bypass Surgery (CABG).
In my wife’s case her left coronary artery dissected and then tore. The tear continued Into all major arteries on her left side and resulted in complete blockages of all 3 arteries.
She experienced a massive heart attack at home during which she called 911 ( I was at work). She then walked to her car and laid down in her car with emergency flashers on so paramedics could find her if she lost consciousness.
They showed up quickly since they are down the street and through her into the ambulance. While we live less than 5 miles from an ER, that Hospital did not have a trauma center or cardiology lab so they transported her to one 15 mins away. Fortunately on the way there the paramedics called ahead and the trauma doc called the interventional team who immediately suspected SCAD and had her sent straight up:
Apparently she was ran through the Er where they cut off her clothes straight into the elevator to the interventional cardiology lab where apparently all hell broke loose. She suffered another massive heart attack on the way there and all three of her arteries were crumbling. They have her massive amounts of plavix to try and stop blockages and also tried to get wires into each artery.
Unfortunately when the arterial walls break down you get lots of holes which are basically false positives for the actual arterial flow, called false lumens. If u put wires in those you simply extend the tear.
She had over four interventional cardiologists working on her trying to get wires in. They were finally able to get wires into 2/3 of the arteries.
t that point there was a discussion over whether they could stent or if open heart surgery was the only option. The summary is that everyone thought she would die no matter what so they didn’t want to be responsible.
The risk of stenting was the arterial walls were so far gone that they would need to be stented in their entirety and any rupture would cause her to bleed out as a result of the plavix.
Surgeon didn’t want to operate for similar risk of her bleeding out as well as the fact that he believed she was too unstable to survive an operation.
Apparently there was a lot of yelling and the end result was the interventional cardiologists refusing to stent as they believed it to likely cause certain death as risk of rupture was extremely high given the damage to the arteries.
By that point I had gone to the ER where they put me in a private room with her dad and had told us she had had a heart attack but they were doing more testing so I assumed she was stable.
Finally after almost two hrs a nurse took us upstairs where a surgeon met with me separately and told me the situation and that she would likely not survive the surgery. He informed me that even if she did survive there may be brain damage although the fact that she had not lost consciousness before they put her under was a good sign on that front.
Apparently on the way to the OR to be prepped she had experienced another heart attack or some other complication wherein her heart stopped and she “coded out”. They were able to revive her at which point he ran out to talk to me.
He was very concerned about her bleeding out even if they completed surgery successfully due to all the blood thinners.
I asked if there was any kind of backup option and he said well not really, we can try to get a transplant if someone dies in the next 24 hrs, otherwise I may be able to keep her on the pump so you can see her one more time and say goodbye although she’ll be unconscious and that very well may not be an option.
Said s planned open heart takes 2-4 hrs but this was emergency situation and they could not really give me an estimate except on.
The entire conversation was probably 5 minutes and he then went straight into surgery.
The surgery took 8 hrs and they were able to successfully bypass 2/3 arteries. They did not know how damaged her heart was from the heart attacks but suspected she would likely be in heart failure for the rest of her life.
After 8 hrs surgeon came out and looked utterly exhausted. He told me everything was completely fucked when they got her open but we’re able to bypass 2/3 and believed that if they held there would be adequate blood flow to sustain the heart. He said he had cauterized the shut out of everything but was still very worried about her bleeding out. Said to sit tight and I could see her soon.
About two hrs later they brought us into ICU where she was intubated but alive with approximately 5-7 doctors around her. The surgeon was next to her for at least 3 more hrs till around 12:30/1 until she was slightly more stable from drugs, the balloon pump was working and she did not appear to be bleeding out.
They took her off the breathing machine at 3 which was interesting to watch and the first thing she said was who the fuck has a heart attack at 34.
She was pretty touch and go for the first few days but finally stabilized.
We’re just under a year out and she is now completely back to normal and out of heart failure.
She was extremely healthy and fit before the surgery which they credited with saving her along with us having one of the best surgeons I. The country randomly available when she came in. He had an or prepped for an open heart that afternoon that cancelled at the last second so it was ready to go when she came in.
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:00 PM Author: provocative burgundy gas station hairy legs Do you think she is alive by chance or for a purpose (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141570) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:05 PM Author: anal field Chance pretty much 100%. A series of very fortunate events.
First had they not bypassed her to the hospital with the full OR it would have delayed serious medical intervention by several hours.
Second the hospital they took her too was brand new with a brand new state of the art cath lab and operating room. It had just been completed a couple years prior.
Third was the fact that one of the top CT surgeons was chilling because a scheduled open heart had just cancelled was very fortunate.
Neither my wife or I are religious and this did nothing but further our atheist beliefs. To provide context the 1.5 - 2 years prior she had 4 separate miscarriages and the week before she was scheduled to have another uterine surgery to fix what they though may have been causing the problems she had this.
To the extent their is a god, I don’t want to support a being that would put someone through that much. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:18 PM Author: Outnumbered Umber Idiot Institution did she ever get the uterine surgery? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141669) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:22 PM Author: anal field Nah, everyone decided having kids naturally would be way too risky as it puts increased strain on heart. That’s setting aside the hormone dump after giving birth that is often attributed to SCAD.
We’re ok with it, we may adopt. I’m a firm believer in not giving a fuck about much in life. Things happen and you deal with them, no point in dwelling on your lot in life. Plus she’s alive and thriving so we’re happy.
We’re considering adopting in a few years. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:06 PM Author: seedy locale Nvm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143379) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:22 PM Author: provocative burgundy gas station hairy legs You seem low IQ, will pray for u (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141682) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:23 PM Author: anal field No question. Typing on my phone doesn’t help.
In that sense it’s probably good I can’t have biological kids with her.
Am actually going out on my own in a month so your prayers are needed brother. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:24 PM Author: Lake crusty lettuce business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142294) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 1:18 AM Author: flushed zippy turdskin liquid oxygen Why wouldn't god just make her NOT HAVE THE FUCKING HEART ATTACK to begin with? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144607) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 8:48 AM Author: anal field Yeah this was basically my outlook. In what world would an ever loving someone push someone to death only to have a 180 hero surgeon step in the last second fillet her open and perform emergency life saving surgery for 8 hrs to bring her back.
I guess there’s the quote God doesn’t give you what you can’t handle but the 4 miscarriages the previous couple years plus this just seems cruel and not something I’d support.
The days after the surgery also did not make me feel like god existed. She was in tons of pain and couldn’t move due to balloon pump in her heart. It looked incredibly uncomfortable and that was with her maxing our fentanyl.
And then some of the things you see in the ICU of people dying all over the place, etc.
I would get annoyed when people would tell me they were praying for us or that god was involved in saving her. The only thing that saved her was her unhinges surgeon who had the balls to do the surgery with an insanely high risk that she would die on the table. |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 6:16 PM Author: provocative burgundy gas station hairy legs (Euphoric bro)
I concede and lay my fedora at your feet, good sir |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:03 PM Author: awkward walnut casino Does she have high blood pressure? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141593) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:10 PM Author: anal field She had no risk factors. Extremely healthy, she did Pilates 3-4 times a week and spin 3-4 times per week.
Actually she has very low blood pressure.
SCAD typically affects healthy younger women with no risk factors. It is very rare and they don’t know what causes it although it’s believed to be associated with hormones to some degree.
For example approx 40% of the time it happens postpartum.
She had no risk factors including pregnancy and hers was one of the more extreme cases ever seen. I believe her case has already been presented at several medical conferences. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:12 PM Author: slimy abode Did she take BC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141631) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:17 PM Author: anal field She hasn’t taken it since she was 20 or so. We had been doing spray and pray, successfully I might add, until the time we decided to try to have kids a couple years prior.
Biological kids are off the table now due to her heart but we may adopt down the line. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:20 PM Author: awkward walnut casino oh shit. how do you feel about that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141676) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:25 PM Author: anal field No problem. I tend to not get worked up about the situations I get put in.
Life throws a series of fucked up curveballs and you deal with them as best you can while trying to stay positive.
I’m happy my wife is alive, I’m happy I have all my limbs and can spend weekends grilling, drinking beers and going to the beach.
We can always adopt too. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:20 PM Author: pea-brained selfie Why can’t you get a surrogate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141678) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:26 PM Author: anal field Hormone injections for egg harvesting aren’t advisable due to potential links between hormones and SCAD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141708) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:19 PM Author: pea-brained selfie But you could get a donor egg and use your own sperm at least, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142262) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:41 PM Author: anal field Yeah but I’m bald and only 6’0 so what’s the point.
Plus seems unnecessary given that there’s tons of discarded kids who need homes with loving mothers and distant but loving fathers. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:05 PM Author: slimy abode What were the symptoms like that she felt before calling 911& how did she know to go in the car? that's pretty smart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141603) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:14 PM Author: mildly autistic depressive therapy curious too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141645) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:16 PM Author: anal field She was at work earlier in the day (she’s a nurse) and the ac in the bldg was out. It was a hot summer day in SoCal and they had portable air conditioners but it was still very warm.
She called me and said she was feeling nauseous and couldn’t cool down and she was gonna go home. I said Yeah go home and attributed to the bldg being hot. Hindsight nausea and overheating can be a symptom of SCAD.
Anyway she went and got an açaí bowl, ate it at beach and then went home and was doing laundry when she felt like she couldn’t breathe.
It got harder and harder to breathe. She initially called her dad and then hung up to call 911 because she thought she was going to pass out.
Around that time she also start having experiencing chest pain that was across her whole chest and felt like someone was squeezing her really hard.
Put home at the time did not have AC and she thought it may still have something to do with heat and went to her car and turned on the ac full blast and told dispatch she had her flashers on if she lost consciousness.
This helped them find her very quickly. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:21 PM Author: slimy abode Very smart of her, its rare IMO for a woman to be calm and rational in an emergency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141681) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:27 PM Author: anal field Yeah shes typical irrational women until shit gets serious in which case she handles well.
I have a history of dealing with some emergency situations as well which makes things easier to handle. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:31 PM Author: Coiffed Half-breed Stead She's a nurse. I'd imagine they are particularly adept at dealing w emergencies, especially medical ones. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141734) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:33 PM Author: Fluffy thirsty principal's office main people cr. Many people might try to lie down indoors, rest / sleep it off, pretend it will go away on its own, etc. She had the presence of mind to call 911. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141743) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 8:46 PM Author: Spectacular Crystalline School Cafeteria I wouldn't have wanted to bother 911 and would have died in my own shit like a faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143264) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:13 PM Author: Lake crusty lettuce business firm Jesus Christ, bro. This is a heart-wrenching story. I can't even imagine having to deal with this situation. I would be afraid every time I say goodbye to her that she'd be dead by the time I get home. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141642) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:19 PM Author: anal field I’m a typical emotionally disconnected xo autist which helps.
Also she’s now doing great so I’m pretty confident she’ll be alright. Plus the upside to the bypass surgery is that veins aren’t subject to dissection like arteries so even if she were to dissect somewhere else it probably wouldn’t kill her. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:19 PM Author: pea-brained selfie Jfc. Sorry that you both had to go through that.
Crazy that you can just drop dead at any moment.
Well, back to wagecucking. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:32 PM Author: anal field Yes, I think that fact gets lost on a lot of people especially on this toxic board.
Going back to wage cucking after that was quite hard. Plus at my year end review my autistic boss had the audacity to comment on my low hours for the year and my poor work product that I had submitted right when I had gotten back to work. “It’s improved since so I know you can do better and the hours need work for next year.”
At that time he was referring to my wife was still having weird rhythms and shit and we were in and out of ER for the month and every time we’d have to stay the night for observation.
I lasted about 2 weeks after that review before I decided fuck this and began planning to go out on my own. Doing that next month and am anxiously awaiting the day I get to give notice in a week or so. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:40 PM Author: Lake crusty lettuce business firm Be a board hero and tell your boss that his inconsiderateness and perverse devotion to wagecucking is the direct cause for your resignation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141772) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:55 PM Author: anal field I should. I like the managing partner so will probably stay on good terms but may mention that autistic partner is a fucking prick. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141866) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:42 PM Author: brilliant fiercely-loyal point masturbator tell him to his face to go fuck himself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141780) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:42 PM Author: Outnumbered Umber Idiot Institution lol what the fuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141781) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:47 PM Author: Contagious hissy fit codepig You're doing the right thing. Good luck, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141804) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:20 PM Author: anal field Almost quit on the spot but decided to wait and save money and get everything set up on their dime first.
It was like the guy had no clue what happened. Goes “you always did really good work then it dropped off in July/August but has since improved again. Is there anything going on we should know about?”
I stared at him dumbfounded and then just shook my head and said no... nothing. Wife’s heart attack and surgery’s were in mid/late July. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 6:34 PM Author: Emerald meetinghouse you had every right to slap the fucking papers off his desk and get in his face (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142653) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 6:48 PM Author: anal field I try to just slide and let do my way through life. Getting worked up and angry just results in an early grave. But that was the defining moment post my wife dying that made me decide once and for all to quit wagecucking for others.
Feel bad for the dude, he’s a minimal real estate partner at a small civil lit firm and lives his life like a senior associate in biglol gunning for partner and gets walked all over by clients and gleefully eats their shit.
While there’s no reason for shit to roll downhill he’s a pathetic clit dick of a man striving as hard as he can do nothing to get worked up over.
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:27 PM Author: slimy abode Do you think you have any amount of PTSD type feelings from this? If so have you talked to anyone
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:47 PM Author: anal field Not really but my wife does but she’s getting through it. She has a therapist she loves who I’ve seen with her several times since.
Mainly she gets scared she’s gonna die again but that fades as she gets away from the incident and progresses.
At the risk of fully putting myself I have a background of some emergency situations. When I was 17 I dragged a guy in through the surf who had gotten washed into a jetty when it was big and knocked unconscious. I ended up having to give him cpr on the beach with an off duty firefighter until a helicopter landed to take him away. I was a lifeguard at the time but was off duty.
A couple years later, I assisted the coast guard for boats in distress where I would be dropped off on a jet ski and swim to the boat to secure everyone and get boat towed or coordinate offload. That would require me to swim in some pretty sketchy conditions and so I’m pretty calm under pressure.
Now I move commas around for a living and have an autistic overweight boss who comments about my hours.
What a life |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:28 PM Author: Coiffed Half-breed Stead Holy shit. There's no concern of relapse or anything?
John Ritter died of aortic dissection I think. Same thing? |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:51 PM Author: anal field I mean she’s at a higher risk of another dissection for sure but what can you do brother.
We’re all just little insignificant specs spinning through space anyway. Might as well enjoy some cold beers along the way.
With respect to her heart though it now has veins instead of arteries and veins don’t dissect like arteries. Different structure entirely. So she could dissect on right side or somewhere else and may cause heart attack but probably wouldn’t kill her.
Now s |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:36 PM Author: diverse gaped senate Bro I don’t think you’re married any more. “Til DEATH do you part”. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141757) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:49 PM Author: anal field Good point, will mention to her tonight.
This is why I really like it here. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:38 PM Author: Vigorous high-end love of her life useless brakes How do u feel abt the fact that a guy who prescribes acne medication or does a boob job makes twice as much as your interventional cardiologist? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141766) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:54 PM Author: anal field One of my wife’s best friends is a derm so we’re ok with her making lots because she’s awesome but yeah it’s a strange world.
Even CT surgeons make a pretty shit wage if you look at it on an hourly basis. That dude was an utter machine. We love him and still visit him routinely. He has a daughter around the same age as my wife so I think it was a pretty special case for him. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:41 PM Author: Thriller Mauve Deer Antler does she have anything to say about "the other side" like in flatliners (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141777) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:57 PM Author: anal field Nah she was unconscious when she coded so didn’t get to experience the dopamine rush unfortunately. May have helped the mental recovery a little more.
Instead like a month later she went into SVT which is super fast heart rate like over 200 and they had to restart her heart three separate times wirh adenosine to get it to break. That shit is not pleasant, she’s more scared of adenosine then another surgery. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:52 PM Author: Offensive property TLDR summary: Reddit atheist and infertile wife live in socal home without air conditioning. She gets hot and eats acai by the beach but has heart attack at 34 and nearly dies but survives. He leaves lawfirm to go out on his own. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141843) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:57 PM Author: insanely creepy mother faggot firefighter The part of the story that I had a clear vision of in my head: Her eating an acai bowl by the beach-- like a commercial for acai granola crap or something. Oh and also doctors ripping her clothes off |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 3:59 PM Author: anal field Lol 180 summary brother!
I should also note that she puked the açaí bowl all over the cath lab and the docs working on her.
She was going I’m going throw up and everyone was too busy trying to save her so they were just like go ahead and she puked everywhere,l. Anesthesiologist was like I guess bows a good time to put her under! |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:04 PM Author: salmon gay wizard trailer park so she didn't die to death? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141907) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:14 PM Author: anal field No, just temporarily det. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38141956) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 1:21 AM Author: flushed zippy turdskin liquid oxygen Not permanently, just temporarily. Until the doctors figured out what was going on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144616) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:29 PM Author: curious well-lubricated juggernaut dilemma Any history of heart problems in her family?
Rate her looks.
Quit work already. The only reason to keep wage cucking is for kids. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:41 PM Author: anal field None. SCAD is pretty rare and not a lot is well known about it particularly in extreme cases like hers because usually the person just dies of a heart attack and they don’t investigate too much further.
She’s not bad for 34 but has gained some weight post surgery. 5’2 119 because she wasn’t able to work out for a while. Probably a 7/10 with clothes on, 5/6 out of ten clothes off. She’s back at it now and was cleared to go back to spin. Has been back at Pilates for a while. Body is steadily improving.
I have my exit date and am looking forward to working for myself. Actually met up with CSLG the other weekend and am hoping he’ll send me some overflow.
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:35 PM Author: shimmering garrison Man I’m sure that was tough to handle. Glad it ended the way it did. 180 story. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142053) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:37 PM Author: anal field Interesting Anecdotes from the ICU:
Spent over 7 days living in ICU next to almost det wife and there’s was a lot of funny shit that happened.
1. ICU nurses are insane. They work incredibly hard and have to deal with patients going through insane shit and who can literally be maddening to deal with. My wife didn’t really sleep starting day 3 as she was pretty conscious at that point and in tons of pain. By day 5 she was completely insane. Most of the nurses were incredibly kind and patient with her.
2. We were the youngest people in the ICU but a solid 40 years. Many boomers in there hanging out after their second or third bypass surgery high giving each other etc.
3. Walking by people in clearly vegetative states or who probably wouldn’t survive every day was heart wrenching and pretty rough.
4. More people seem to die at night then during the day. Also the effect sunlight has on body is incredible. Very pronounced there.
5. We had a flamboyantly gay nurse who was incredible. He would watch bravo with my wife and tell her if she wasn’t nice to me he’d steal me. Dude was hilarious and would go prancing around the ICU.
6. They were measuring my wife’s urine to check for signs of infection and other things and on at least several occasions she overflowed the measuring pan and it would drop to the floor spraying piss everywhere. Gay dude would just walk away and call for a clean up lol. Refused to deal with it himself.
7. Surgeons would roam halls like lone wolves while doctors always wanted to wait for the whole “team”. Surgeons would also do all kinds of kooky random shit whether or not the “team” was onboard. For example at one point my wife was scared when they were going to take her off the balloon pump and the surgeon was like look, if I was worried you’d know, ask your husband. Plus worst case is we just open you back up and I can fix you that way. No big deal.
8. Surprising amount of hot nurses in ICU given how hard the work is and how many disgusting bodily fluids you need to deal with. Old boomers were hitting on them right and left. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:23 PM Author: slimy abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142286) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:31 PM Author: Lake crusty lettuce business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142331) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 4:44 PM Author: Charcoal nursing home travel guidebook dam son (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142118) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:12 PM Author: Floppy wild mexican temple lmao im a doctor and can't believe this bitch is actually alive. would've expected them to keep tossing the malpractice hot potato around and told you to go fuck yourself. it's cool the surgeon actually operated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142235) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:19 PM Author: anal field That was definitely what it sounded like. Surgeon was legit pissed when he talked to me and was like these guys are screaming at me she’ll die u less I operate. If they had balls they’d try to stent her but I guess they’re concerned about stents rupturing and her bleeding out so I guess we’re operating.
Look here’s how’s its gonna work, we’re going to do x, if she survives that we move to y, and so on. There’s not a good chance of survival of any of these things but we’ll do our best. I’m also worried because she’s on more plavix then anyone ive ever operated on but nothing we can do. She may also have brain damage but the fact she was awake till we put her under is good sign.
Dude was the man. My wife works with a ton of surgeons and all of them were like oh that dude is the man. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:20 PM Author: Floppy wild mexican temple yeah sometimes you'll run into these guys, they tend to be surgeons not regular doctors, and they're like actual competent alpha males who will go balls to the wall to save your life they are 180 people real heroes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142274) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:25 PM Author: anal field The dude is a legit hero and 180 guy.
My wife and I saw him a month after surgery and my wife started crying when she said thank you and he gave her a hug and started crying too and he was not the crying type.
I think him having a daughter her age and the fact it was like a high point surgery for his career really connected him to her.
Tearing up in my office thinking about it brothers. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 8:57 PM Author: Spectacular Crystalline School Cafeteria Very moving story, she should offer to maybe suck him off or something don't you think (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143334) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:49 PM Author: anal field I would have no problem with that FRIEND. Normally not an intellectual but I’m forever indebted to that dude so... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143602) |
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Date: July 23rd, 2020 7:28 PM Author: Trip Cuck Are any of them libs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#40651683) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:18 PM Author: disrespectful boyish center police squad What did she see when she died? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142256) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:22 PM Author: anal field Nothing friend, they put her under before she coded out so she didn’t have the whole near death dopamine rush.
Interesting breakdown of the dying process here though: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/4w9it6/eli5_so_how_does_the_body_die_also_what_does_it/ |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 6:11 PM Author: Ultramarine pocket flask newt > Inhibitory interneurons also regulate the release of neurotransmitters involved in the reward pathway. So you get a huge rush of dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin. This is related to the "feeling of euphoria" that NDE survivors sometimes report.
Sounds like a PEAK experience |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 7:42 PM Author: brilliant fiercely-loyal point masturbator that doesn't sound too bad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142942) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 7:47 PM Author: anal field Apparently was very traumatic prior to that with excruciating chest pain, docs literally freaking the fuck out and screaming at each other totally ignoring her and a general sense that she was 100% going to die.
She said it was unlike anything she had ever experienced before.
Then she had three rounds of adenosine about a month later which also makes you feel like you are going to die and she said the adenosine was worse. She’s terrified more of having to do adenosine again then emergency open heart. And the days after emergency open heart are very unpleasant. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:24 PM Author: Lake crusty lettuce business firm Wow
Ps - impressive flame |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:27 PM Author: anal field 100% NOT FLAME.
I think any doctor can prob confirm that I could t flame on this unless I was a doctor given my knowledge of SCAD.
Also CSLG got the cliff notes of this story the other weekend and can confirm NOT FLAME. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:32 PM Author: Lake crusty lettuce business firm Lol it’ll be a 180 heel turn if you get cslg to sue (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38142337) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:39 PM Author: anal field Would never sue the docs or hospital, they saved her life.
I talked to him about starting my own practice and hoping he’ll kick me some work. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 5:26 PM Author: Yapping Sapphire Brunch Boltzmann Crazy story! Glad you still have her.
I wish this would happen to my ex-wife... but they weren't able to revive her. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:03 PM Author: Coiffed Half-breed Stead Come on man, she's still the mother of your children (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143372) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:05 PM Author: bright razzmatazz theater stage gunner hie to coreywayne.com you wench (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143378) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:37 PM Author: learning disabled passionate brethren cuckoldry Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143529) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:51 PM Author: brilliant fiercely-loyal point masturbator (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143610) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:41 PM Author: Federal spot dragon Damn dude. That’s crazy.
If you ever want to grab a beer let me know when. Any MWF after work is good for me if you ever head over here. |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 9:50 PM Author: anal field I’ll actually probably be up there this coming Monday. You free in afternoon/early evening? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38143607) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 2:42 PM Author: Federal spot dragon yeah man shoot me an e-mail im in DTLA for a court appearance in the morning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38147081) |
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Date: April 25th, 2019 11:18 PM Author: Sepia overrated base I'm proud of you for leaving your firm to focus on living and your own practice, brother. Some people just keep stumbling forward until it's over. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144191) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 12:15 AM Author: Magenta mediation how much BBC has she taken? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144443) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 12:20 AM Author: Cocky Big Address Dude, literally got PTSD from reading this. Gave wife a hug and, while I didn’t get a blowjob tonight, I still love her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144455) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 12:32 AM Author: odious yarmulke coffee pot *intelligently designed heart shredding itself to pieces for no reason* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144487) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 12:43 AM Author: purple bipolar theater tattoo fuck you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144504) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 6:47 PM Author: odious yarmulke coffee pot Chill out bitch, he said she's fine now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38148257) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 9:26 AM Author: Contagious hissy fit codepig *intelligently designed T-cells just giving up for a specific reason* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38145307) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 1:06 AM Author: odious yarmulke coffee pot what's so terrible about adenosine? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38144573) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 8:42 AM Author: anal field Fortunately I’ve never had it but the gist of it is it makes it feel like you’re actually dying which isn’t really untrue because it legitimately stops your heart.
They have to inject as close to heart as possible meaning far up on her arm or in her neck and her body would legit come off the gurney and tense up to an extreme and like 5-10 seconds later she’d be crying because she felt like she just died and would be asking me to hold her.
Apparently you can feel it travel through your vein and into your heart where it then abruptly stops your heart for a few seconds while everyone holds their breath hoping it starts again.
Apparently it can feel like falling down an elevator shaft AND hitting the ground. https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/46hnqt/adenosine_is_one_hell_of_a_drug/
From googling around two rounds isn’t super common let alone three and she had very high doses each time as her heart rate was well over 200 bpm and it being so close to surgery they were worried about it prompting some other head problem. |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 2:43 PM Author: Outnumbered Umber Idiot Institution sounds trippy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38147084) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 2:57 PM Author: bisexual bistre black woman I have literally never heard of something like "SCAD" and I'm wondering what the risk factors are and that all sounds absolutely, horrendously horrifying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38147157) |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 3:51 PM Author: exciting low-t dysfunction How much life insurance do you guys own? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38147465) |
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Date: July 27th, 2019 6:51 PM Author: anal field I have a 1.5 mil policy, she has like nothing because we don’t really rely on her money and we always assumed if anyone were gonna die early it would be me.
Lol at trying to get life insurance on her now. |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 6:20 PM Author: Poppy piazza internal respiration did you see the insurance bill? did the surgeon get a new porsche out of this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4248647&forum_id=2#38148180) |
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Date: July 27th, 2019 6:46 PM Author: anal field All in the insurance bill was close to a million. Surgery alone was several hundred thousand.
Fortunately my wife is a nurse at the very hospital that saved her so total out of pocket was like 300 dollars lol. |
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Date: April 26th, 2019 6:40 PM Author: misunderstood multi-billionaire Jesus, dude. I'm so sorry you and your wife had to go through that, but obviously I'm happy to hear things are okay now. Your wife basically saved her own life with the steps she took. She sounds 180.
I had a childhood friend who died from SCAD last summer. She had symptoms like your wife, told her family she was going to take a nap, and never woke up. Left behind a husband and three young kids. |