Re: Heart attack
Originally Posted by
Mups
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Blimey, that seems quick if you only walked for the first time yesterday, Bakerman?
I hope you will have help with chores and getting your meals etc?
I wish you well soon, but dont try and rush, will you.
Having stents is not a major trauma Mups, the blocked arteries can be accessed by catheter either inserted through the groin or the wrist.
After my first heart attack I had three inserted and was out of hospital the next day. I was walking ten miles within a fortnight, and I never doubted for one minute that I would never be able to run again. Three months later I was running three miles, and exactly four years later I ran my first half marathon since the heart attack.
Your arteries that received the stents will have been blocked long before you had the heart attack bakerman, so if anything, after recovery, you should feel a good sight better than you had for a long time. I'm not saying go out and run marathons, but there is no reason why life shouldn't be a lot better you expect it to be, you have been given a second chance so go for it mate.....