I'm a SCADMAN

 Good Morning everyone,

It has been a few years since I posted anything, and life goes so fast. For all of us, Covid really took a toll on traveling, eating out, and just enjoying life but being locked in your house for nearly a year was not great. Since covid a lot of Cafes and Restaurants that we enjoyed going to closed down permanently which was sad to see. We finally got covid in April and a few weeks after that I started getting a burning sensation in my chest which came and went regularly. I went to the Doctors and they thought it was asthma related but it wasn't as it turned out. I took up running last year and about a month ago i was on a run and my whole chest felt like it was on fire and my heart exploded so i went back to work and finished the day. I went to the Doctor after work and they sent me to hospital. I asked the junior doctor to check my blood as she was convinced it was gastro. They got my results and sent me straight to the new Heart Hospital at around 1am the following day. I had my blood checked every 2 hours to see the troponin levels  (normally between 0.04 and below 5). My levels got to over 8000 which suggested I could still be having a heart attack. Later on that day they wanted to do an Angiogram ( sticking a tube up my vein in my arm into my heart to check what damage was done). While they were in my heart they could see all the damage that had happened the the aorta and I had no cholesterol there. The cardiologist could see a long tear in the aorta and advised i needed a stent to try and patch up the tear which is called Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) . I was watching the whole operation on the screen next to me which was interesting. I was in hospital for a week and was released. They day i was released i had more chest pains so i was sent back to hospital and spend another 3 days in hospital. Since then i have been in and out of hospital and trying to get used to all the medications. So far we are all coping with the life changes and i should be going back to work in a week.

Here is an image of what SCAD is.

Kind E-gards

Dale

There is a first for everything!

There is a first for everything!

In September our company was sold and the new owners took over in December. Over the last few months they have given  me more work which is fine but it was starting to get unachievable in the timeframe that they wanted. I was doing the job for 2 / 3 people at a time sometimes. last year a different company offered me a job and I turned it down. Last Thursday we had a meeting in my current job and things had been said and I felt insulted. I called up that company and asked if they still wanted me. To my delight they said yes so Monday I went in and had a meeting.  Tuesday morning came and was the first time in my life I got to resign. Its the weirdest and scariest experience I have had to do. Wednesday I got my contract and I now move to my new job in four weeks. Wednesday night I had a sleep study and I have done one before but that was at home where this one was at the hospital. I arrived at 7pm and by the time they had hooked me up it was 9pm. Then they said time to sleep but I go to sleep about 10:30pm, I managed to fall asleep fairly quickly but then I woke up at 1am then 3am and finally 5am.

Last night being Thursday I played Dodgeball for the first time, the game goes for 40 minutes and after 20 minute you swap sides. I was absolutely useless but really enjoyed the game and will probably play again next week.

Now that I am feeling less stressed hopefully I will be in a better frame of mind to get back into more blogs.
Kind E-gards
Dale