Hostess Rise'
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Username: Risa
Post Number: 10738
Registered: 05-2003
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My story is a bit different than most, but I am happily here to tell about it. I had rarely been sick throughout my entire life. At one point I worked 23 years without missing a day of work. Then, on a Saturday morning in the spring of 2007 I was sitting in my den, at my desk downloading pictures from my camera that had been taken while on vacation the week before and the last thing I remember was seeing picture 45 load on to the PC ....... the next thing I remember was the black boots of the 3 paramedics in my den. My wife heard my collapse, called 9-1-1 and started CPR. I regained consciousness and was transported to the hospital, a heart cath showed 3 blockages and the doc said, "We'll fix those and have you out of here in 3 days"..... little did he know about the path I was about to take. A triple by-pass followed and things rapidly went down hill from there. My heart simply kept stopping ......... in a 2 week period I coded over 100 times. They tried many different drug therapies and even rechecked the surgery to make sure everything was correct. At one point, and it's one of very few things I remember, was that I was being transported to a larger facility to see if they could help. I was there about 5 days and the word "transplant" was mentioned to my family as my condition deteriorated daily. I was put on the donor list as an A-1, and I won the lottery that night ........ they found a heart that matched. It's a good heart and I'm trying to take very good care of it, every minute of every day. I thank God, my donor, my donor's family, the doctors and nurses and my family each and every day for the blessings bestowed upon me. If you like, you can read the longer version on my story on http://my2ndheartbeat.wordpress.com/
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