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Beverly Carrizales
After a month of begging my physician to find
out why I could not breath at night and was so tired after walking to the
telephone, I had a Heart Attack. He had assured me nothing was wrong and I just
had "stuffy lungs". This is where we started after the MI
Jan 2000 Angioplasty/Stent #1 95% Blockage
Apr 2000 Angioplasty 90% Blockage
Oct 2000 Angioplasty 80% Blockage
Feb 2001 Diagnostic Cath
Feb 2001 Angioplasty/Brackytherapy 85% Blockage
Oct 2001 AngioW/Artherectomy due to "Candy Wrapper effect" from radiation
85%Blockage
6 days Later Angioplasty W/ #2 conjoinining Stent
75% Blockage
June 2002 Double AngioW/Brackytherapy to #2 stent
95% & 99% Blockage
12 days Later Re-coiled to a 80% Blockage
Artery is so mushy that nothing else can be done. My problem is Cell
Proliferation that blocks up everything they do. (scar tissue) It does not know
when to stop. If I agreed to Open Heart Surgery to attempt to By-Pass,I KNOW
that it would just close back up. I left against Medical advise and called
Hospice. I do not want to spend the rest of my life having one by-pass after the
other until I died or stoked out from one of them. The Interventionist have done
everything they can do to patch my poor old Left Anterior Artery. I pushed them
to go on and on. They say they have never had a patient have this many
procedures. I also have a 70% blockage in the Circumflex, a 60% blocked Carotid
artery, Angina, Left Bundle Branch Block, mild Mitral Valve Prolapse and
Documented Coronary Artery Spasms. My Dad had his first MI at 38 and he died
from the 2nd one at 52. I was 53 when I had my MI.
I intend to live my life to the fullest and when it blocks back up, I will not
call 911 but will call Hospice. They already have Oxygen here and have ordered
liquid morphine for the time I might need it. I guarantee you that I do not want
to die but know in my heart that getting on the By-Pass train would not help me.
I have a marvelous family that I love dearly.
Good Luck To You All..........Beverly
email me at macmember@earthlink.net if I can help anyone
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