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Loc: Corinth, TX, USA
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Re: Embarrassment
[re: Pat]
07/04/08 08:41 AM
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Gosh, Pat, another place we're much alike. In June, 1975, we were attending a Northwestern University Traffic Institute re-training seminar in Shreveport, LA, when I had a severe attack of chest pain, numbness in my jaw on the left side (in fact, the whole side of my face), and numbness in my left arm. So I got to the emergency room of a hospital and spent 20 hours flat of my back in a coronary care unit hooked up to all kinds of wires and tubes. The chest pains went away pretty soon and my personal diagnosis is that I hyperventilated. Anyway, after 20 hours my back hurt so bad, I told them that I was getting out of there, and did so. The doctors tried to convince my wife that I'd had a heart attack, gave us a bottle of nitro pills and said if I was going to insist on leaving, to get home and get checked out in Dallas. So several days later, in Dallas, I did a stress test and all that good stuff, and learned that I have a hiatal hernia. The doctor prescribed Gaviscon, which I used for a few months before quitting. Then for a long time, I took Alka-Seltzer every night before going to bed. I finally quit that, also. I learned many years ago that when I have an attack of severe chest pain, all I need is a couple of big swallows of a carbonated drink, I burp, and the pain is gone instantly. I never go anywhere (not even to the grocery store 2 miles away) without a 7-Up or Sprite in the car. I may need it 2 days in a row, or not need it for a month or more. It can happen while I'm sitting here at the computer, or wake me in the middle of the night; no identifiable pattern, it can happen anywhere and anytime, but relatively infrequently. It can be a terrific pain, but at least, I know what to do about it.
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