On Tuesday of this week I was out shopping for supplies for a flowbench build for a customer at my local hardware store, prior to leaving I was having some chest pain which I felt was my typical pain I have a medical condition for so thought nothing of it. As I was walking around the store the pain started to get worse and I was getting warm so I took off my jacket and kept shopping. I noticed the pain was radiating out towards my lungs and I could not take a deep breath with out a lot of discomfort so I was thinking something was not right. I finished my shopping and headed off for home but made a second stop to pickup some heating oil for my shop furnace. I noticed my arms were really weak and had trouble lifting the 5 gallon container back into my truck.
While heading home the pain started to go out my into my shoulders and I knew something wasn't right, when I got home I sat down in my office thinking some rest would help, I remoted into someone's computer to assist in a flowbench software issue, finished that up quickly and then told my wife we needed to head to the ER as I was not feeling so good!
I ended up with what is called a NSTEMI heart attack which is found with an enzyme test every 3 hours looking for a rise in levels of a blood enzyme related to your heart muscle, my rise was minor and I caught it before damage was done! I ended up in ICU and getting heart cath surgery which had 2 stents installed through my wrist with 70-80% blockage
I came home Thursday afternoon and feel great! Looking back over the past few months I can say I had a decline but just was thinking it was old age creeping up on me.
The point of my post is DON'T look past something that does not feel right!
This can happen to anyone at any age the Doctor was telling me. It will be a week or two until I can resume what is to me a normal schedule so please understand if I'm slow getting back to you . . .