JWilsonphoto wrote:
Be back in a few days, this week has been a little bit of a challenge and I'll explain later. Suffice it to say that I now have the cardiologist that my friends have been urging me to get with for several years.
Thank you all, I appreciate you, but you know that. Didn't mean to drop a nuke before but I have had more wires hooked up to me than a Triple 7 for the last four days and the only sleep I could get was between the dogged attempts to drain my veins dry. I'm home now and so very glad to be.
The week has been a bit of a challenge for me but fortunately not for my Creator.And Nick, I promise you I have been and I will, thank you. Spent Monday pulling everything out of the hangar and polishing the floor, felt fine. Tuesday morning I walked from the kitchen to the shower and felt like I had run a marathon. My chest felt funny, tight and I was very winded. I recovered and took my shower, then headed upstairs to work at my desk for a bit. When I reached the top of the stairs I was close to passing out and couldn't catch my breath. Kept trying to figure out what in the world could be happening. I called my Dr and set up a "virtual' consult but he wasn't available until 5:15 so I took it easy but didn't feel very good and was getting anxious to boot. I asked Sheila to loan me her watch and set my weight and height in it so I could do an ecg out of curiosity, that curiosity and God's Grace saved my life. My Dr called at 5:15 for the video consult, I showed him the ecg, he told Sheila to call an ambulance and give me an aspirin. Me being me, I promised I'd get to the hospital as quickly as possible and we hopped in Sheila's car, she drove me to Baylor Heart, which I photographed last year. Long story short, involving panic, crash carts, etc., the wonderful folks at Baylor Heart saved my life. I was having premature ventricle contractions, "sudden death" syndrome to a layman. Four days on my back and a myriad of tests has determined that my heart is actually in excellent shape, with not a whit of blockage. I'm going to wear a monitor for a week and have a cardiac MRI at the end just to make absolutely certain everything is perfect. My cardiologist says, based on what he knows at this point, I'll be back behind my camera, and in the cockpit in short order, maybe as short as a few weeks. So, feeling very Blessed this Friday and more than grateful to The Good Lord for a "do-over".
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thank you all, I appreciate you, but you know that. Didn't mean to drop a nuke before but I have had more wires hooked up to me than a Triple 7 for the last four days and the only sleep I could get was between the dogged attempts to drain my veins dry. I'm home now and so very glad to be.
The week has been a bit of a challenge for me but fortunately not for my Creator.And Nick, I promise you I have been and I will, thank you. Spent Monday pulling everything out of the hangar and polishing the floor, felt fine. Tuesday morning I walked from the kitchen to the shower and felt like I had run a marathon. My chest felt funny, tight and I was very winded. I recovered and took my shower, then headed upstairs to work at my desk for a bit. When I reached the top of the stairs I was close to passing out and couldn't catch my breath. Kept trying to figure out what in the world could be happening. I called my Dr and set up a "virtual' consult but he wasn't available until 5:15 so I took it easy but didn't feel very good and was getting anxious to boot. I asked Sheila to loan me her watch and set my weight and height in it so I could do an ecg out of curiosity, that curiosity and God's Grace saved my life. My Dr called at 5:15 for the video consult, I showed him the ecg, he told Sheila to call an ambulance and give me an aspirin. Me being me, I promised I'd get to the hospital as quickly as possible and we hopped in Sheila's car, she drove me to Baylor Heart, which I photographed last year. Long story short, involving panic, crash carts, etc., the wonderful folks at Baylor Heart saved my life. I was having premature ventricle contractions, "sudden death" syndrome to a layman. Four days on my back and a myriad of tests has determined that my heart is actually in excellent shape, with not a whit of blockage. I'm going to wear a monitor for a week and have a cardiac MRI at the end just to make absolutely certain everything is perfect. My cardiologist says, based on what he knows at this point, I'll be back behind my camera, and in the cockpit in short order, maybe as short as a few weeks. So, feeling very Blessed this Friday and more than grateful to The Good Lord for a "do-over". ...Show more →
Cool ……. I can have my breakfast now. And, today's assignment is reading up about PVC’s …. this is exciting. NOT !!!!! Oh, and feel free to give Sheila a big hug.
Thanks everyone for you kind thoughts and prayers. Will do Nick, it'll be easy because she doesn't get more than a couple of feet away from me of late, she's watching me like a hawk................
Um Jim, don't be tempting the fates so fast, will ya? James III needs flight lessons and photo lessons first.
Take it easy (I know, that's a tough one to follow) and do what the docs are telling you.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Be back in a few days, this week has been a little bit of a challenge and I'll explain later. Suffice it to say that I now have the cardiologist that my friends have been urging me to get with for several years.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
As Laura so accurately surmised a long time ago, "I'm going out with my boots on........" The Good Lord knows the day and the hour and my plan is, as Malcom Forbes once said......"While alive...........LIVE!"
Yeah, she will be watching you like a hawk for sure. Good to see that you LISTENED this time.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks everyone for you kind thoughts and prayers. Will do Nick, it'll be easy because she doesn't get more than a couple of feet away from me of late, she's watching me like a hawk................
Next time, call the ambulance. Had you passed out while Sheila was driving...
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Me being me, I promised I'd get to the hospital as quickly as possible and we hopped in Sheila's car, she drove me to Baylor Heart, which I photographed last year.
Jim, I'm sorry to hear about your health issue, but happy to hear that the prognosis is good.
That being said.....
"Tuesday morning I walked from the kitchen to the shower and felt like I had run a marathon. My chest felt funny, tight and I was very winded. I recovered and took my shower, (deleted)". At that point you acted like an idiot. You shouldn't have bothered with a shower, you should have immediately called 911 for an ambulance.
I had a coworker who (I was told), was at home feeling very tired and run down. His fiancé tried to get him to go to the ER. He refused to go. After a short while she insisted that he go, and he said he would as soon as he got a shower. He took his shower, and they went to the ER. He died from a heart attack shortly after arriving at the ER. The doctors told his fiancé that if they had arrived just a few minutes earlier, they could have saved his life.
From now on, don't be an idiot. Your family doesn't want to lose you, and neither do we. Listen to your doctors, listen to Sheila, and take care of yourself.
Thanks Ken, will do. My Buddy Bryan Martin, you'll remember, was a controller at McKinney. Brian had been feeling crummy for several days but was an independent Cowboy spirit, died in the tower on duty. It's a weird thing though, if you ran to the ER every time you felt crummy, you'd be broke and embarrassed. Guys being guys, were kind of prone to popping an Advil and moving on. Obviously a dumb strategy in my case.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks Ken, will do. My Buddy Bryan Martin, you'll remember, was a controller at McKinney. Brian had been feeling crummy for several days but was an independent Cowboy spirit, died in the tower on duty. It's a weird thing though, if you ran to the ER every time you felt crummy, you'd be broke and embarrassed. Guys being guys, were kind of prone to popping an Advil and moving on. Obviously a dumb strategy in my case.
Good to see you up and running again (no pun intended there) you had me worried there for a sec.
Take it easy my friend life is just to short.
Thanks Jan Arie. I am chillin' and it's the perfect weekend for it, nice steady rain outside my bedroom window and nothing tempting me to move from exactly where I am. I've got a couple of architectural shots to to tomorrow afternoon/dusk, not far from home. Hoping that I can get those captured if the weather cooperates. Couldn't use my right arm/hand for anything until right now and I'm not supposed to lift anymore than 5 lbs with it for a week so we'll see. Sure don't want that artery they tapped into coming unglued after all of this.
kwbarnes wrote:
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From now on, don't be an idiot. Your family doesn't want to lose you, and neither do we. Listen to your doctors, listen to Sheila, and take care of yourself.
Ken
Well said, Ken...
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JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks Jan Arie. I am chillin' and it's the perfect weekend for it, nice steady rain outside my bedroom window and nothing tempting me to move from exactly where I am. I've got a couple of architectural shots to to tomorrow afternoon/dusk, not far from home. Hoping that I can get those captured if the weather cooperates. Couldn't use my right arm/hand for anything until right now and I'm not supposed to lift anymore than 5 lbs with it for a week so we'll see. Sure don't want that artery they tapped into coming unglued after all of this.
Give me Sheila's phone number, I want to talk to her!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thanks Jan Arie. I am chillin' and it's the perfect weekend for it, nice steady rain outside my bedroom window and nothing tempting me to move from exactly where I am. I've got a couple of architectural shots to to tomorrow afternoon/dusk, not far from home. Hoping that I can get those captured if the weather cooperates. Couldn't use my right arm/hand for anything until right now and I'm not supposed to lift anymore than 5 lbs with it for a week so we'll see. Sure don't want that artery they tapped into coming unglued after all of this.
So please help me understand. How do you reconcile not wanting the artery to come unglued with going out on a shoot tomorrow evening? This against the background of an INSTRUCTION not to lift more than 5 lbs with your right hand, for a week.
Clearly your trying to wind us up. Well, you’ve succeeded with me. So……
This last week was a warning – heed that warning.
You’ve paid good money for medical advice – so quit being selective in takeing the advice. Did the Doc say you are OK to start work tomorrow evening ? Did you ask?
Given the events of last week, how confident are you about the status of you medical and life insurance if you go and work tommorrow evening?
None of my business I know. So I’ve stopped being concerned – I’m now very worried.
No, no, no Nick, my cardiologist said that I should be perfectly fine to do this little shoot if Chili set my tripod up and I did the composition and exposure. Just a matter of verifying the perspective and mashing a button. I have no intention of pushing any of this. I've got about 10 days of squaring this away and rebuilding my strength and hopefully it will be as though it did not happen, except for the fact that I know that I don't have any heart blockage which is a good thing. I don't really have much on the books until 6/01 so this will work out very nicely. Tomorrow's shoot is just a couple of shots late afternoon and a couple at dusk of a simple single story complex, piece of cake. I'm being really good, honest.
Take care...
