I was asleep. There was nothing but my nightmares and hallucination. I had arrived at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Both the paramedic and the attending physicians were perplexed. My drug screen and blood screen came up negative, but my EKG was positive. Positive for a massive heart attack - at the age of 34. What I don't remember is that the EKG was done in my bedroom and THAT is when they took me to the hospital. The CT scan showed a complete blockage in th eleft ventricular artery and the on-call cardiologist decided to attempt an emergency bypass surgery. They removed a large piece of artery from my right left, opened me up and found ... a heart too damaged for the bypass to be successful. Apparrently this was not my first heart attack. At this point, the calvary was called in. In was determined that the only thing that would ultimately save my life would be a heart transplants. My old heart was still beating, functioning at about 10% capacity. It needed help. Help came in the form of a Left Ventriclular Assist Device of LVAD. Go here to find out more about my particular device.
