The above is a photo of my right thigh.
It is easier to just post an exchange of emails about my new heart problems so here is one that is a good summary. I post it as I seldom visit the four Harris related blogs and if I am gone from them for a few years you can probably figure that I am taking a dirt nap. So here is a photo of a medical screw up where I went in for tests the 22nd and 23 of July 2010 and during the 2nd test where the put wires up your veins and arteries one fellow managed to poke a hole in my major thigh artery.
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In a message dated 7/25/2010 7:24:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, frankcrump@comcast.net writes:
This is a piece of cake in the right hands. But judging from that bruise I'm not sure that you are
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MY REPLY:
They haven't volunteered any info on that and I had other fish to fry so didn't make a big deal about it. I was totally under when I was brought back to semi-conscious state by someone actually pounding on me and applying such pressure to my groin that it really hurt and yelling, I knew something was wrong but went back under soon. Guess that is what a lot of people who die in operations hear, just a lot of noise and shouting then nothing. In my case of course I recovered - at least this time.
I don't even know which Dr screwed up, might have been some intern or less likely my own Dr. Was told by another Dr that came to visit that my surgery would be done by some bright young guy, 'best in the field' so it wouldn't be the same knucklehead that screwed up and went through the vein wall.
For now I have an appointment for an INR test Mon and see an Indian Dr Persaid on Thurs PM, at which time I will be asking a few questions, not so much about the above but about the pending operation and if it can be put off. Keep in mind that for 4 years I was on meds before I had to get operated on (in India). I have now been off the care of any heart Dr for over 2 1/2 yrs so exactly when the situation took this bad turn is unknown. Only know that the symptoms appeared a couple of months ago and grew to where I saw the cardio guy Reitman. If I hadn't had the 'drowning/no sleep' problem this could have gone on for years with no one aware of it.
So there are questions to be asked/answered.
H
It is easier to just post an exchange of emails about my new heart problems so here is one that is a good summary. I post it as I seldom visit the four Harris related blogs and if I am gone from them for a few years you can probably figure that I am taking a dirt nap. So here is a photo of a medical screw up where I went in for tests the 22nd and 23 of July 2010 and during the 2nd test where the put wires up your veins and arteries one fellow managed to poke a hole in my major thigh artery.
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In a message dated 7/25/2010 7:24:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, frankcrump@comcast.net writes:
This is a piece of cake in the right hands. But judging from that bruise I'm not sure that you are
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MY REPLY:
They haven't volunteered any info on that and I had other fish to fry so didn't make a big deal about it. I was totally under when I was brought back to semi-conscious state by someone actually pounding on me and applying such pressure to my groin that it really hurt and yelling, I knew something was wrong but went back under soon. Guess that is what a lot of people who die in operations hear, just a lot of noise and shouting then nothing. In my case of course I recovered - at least this time.
I don't even know which Dr screwed up, might have been some intern or less likely my own Dr. Was told by another Dr that came to visit that my surgery would be done by some bright young guy, 'best in the field' so it wouldn't be the same knucklehead that screwed up and went through the vein wall.
For now I have an appointment for an INR test Mon and see an Indian Dr Persaid on Thurs PM, at which time I will be asking a few questions, not so much about the above but about the pending operation and if it can be put off. Keep in mind that for 4 years I was on meds before I had to get operated on (in India). I have now been off the care of any heart Dr for over 2 1/2 yrs so exactly when the situation took this bad turn is unknown. Only know that the symptoms appeared a couple of months ago and grew to where I saw the cardio guy Reitman. If I hadn't had the 'drowning/no sleep' problem this could have gone on for years with no one aware of it.
So there are questions to be asked/answered.
H
