I’m going to try and get through this intro as quickly as possible. My name is Matt and I’m 51 years old. At the end of March in 2024, I had a massive and likely lethal heart attack. I will go into this more later; I’m just going through the timeline.
My EF went down to forty-four percent. I was healthy and going to the gym frequently, I worked at a physical profession and while my stress was high, but aside from smoking, I had no real bad habits. They out in three stents in my main cardiac artery.
In late August 2024 I had a PCI procedure to clear the arteries that remained clogged. Nothing was ultimately done due to danger of rupture. I was left basically still sick and with congestive heart failure.
In September a family member arranged an appointment with a renowned heart surgeon in another city. I went to the appointment, and they scheduled the operation for two weeks from that day. Due to issues, the surgery got delayed another week. In the middle of October, I had open heart surgery. I woke up the next morning in the ICU with the surgery a success. Later that day, I went down again due to an issue that shouldn’t have been possible. I went back into surgery and again woke up in the ICU for the second time in twenty-four hours. I spent a week in the hospital split between ICU and step-down.
Once I was released from the hospital, I went home to recover. In a few days I was visited by home health care. I had my follow up appointment with my surgeon, got a primary care doctor that was local and had an appointment with my new cardiologist.
I am now three months out from my surgery and I’m in cardiac rehab.
Through this blog, I’m hoping to give some people a little more possible information that the hospital won’t tell you and why they won’t tell you. Many of the things that happened during this journey were not what I expected them to be and there are effects that you may not even be aware of.
I hope you get something out of this. Thank you for your time.
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