Been Too Busy!!!

As you can see I’ve been too busy to write any posts lately because I’ve been working late because we have just started back up with the night crew again because the sub-contractor couldn’t do the job right. Or I should say that he didn’t have enough people on his staff to do the job right. I have also been busy trying to the podcast that I do with my roommate up and running, so between work and the podcast I just have not had the time to do my own thing. I will try to get better though. So until then just be patient with me.

Dawn of a New Day

This is certainly a Dawn Of A New Day for me anyway because as of this past Tuesday morning I was lucky to even be alive. Monday night at work I was lifting a bulky box which I had to lift over my head to carry to the dumpster, everything was fine but later my arms started to get really sore, I didn’t pay attention to it though as I thought it was my arthritis acting up which I got from all the years as a tow-truck driver.

So at the end of the night I just went home and took something for the pain, but as the night wore on it wasn’t getting any better as a matter of fact the pain was getting worse. The pain that had started in my upper arms was now spreading down to my wrists and my hands were starting to get numb and tingly and it felt like somebody was trying to rip my muscles off my bones. So at this point I decided to go to the hospital to find out what the problem was.

I called a cab to go to the hospital as I’m waiting for the cab the pain is getting worse by the minute, it is now starting to creep into my chest and it’s now getting difficult to breath, when the cab finally shows up I tell him to bring me to the closest E.R. as quickly as possible. I was telling the driver was happening and he said it sounded like I was having a stroke.

When I finally get to the hospital the nurse asked me if I was having chest pains? I tell her I am and they immediately bring me to the back room and after making me take all my clothes off they hook up all kinds of wires to me and after a few minutes they tell me I’m having a “HEART ATTACK”!!, I ask how is that possible I’m only 39 years old.

The Doctor said that one of my major arteries is blocked and if they didn’t do something right away that I could die, of course I signed the appropriate paper work to do whatever they needed to do. They had to put in what they call a stent, that fixed the problem of what was causing me to have a heart attack.

Thank ”GOD” they didn’t have to do open heart surgery, the doctor put me on a strict diet to keep the artery from getting clogged again, I now have to take 4 different medications, one of which I’ll probably have to take for rest of my life. 

Now you can see why I call this post Dawn of a New Day, because of everybody at the hospital, I was alive to see the Dawn of a New Day.

I’m Back!

I glad to say I’m back after being gone for over a year of not being able to write a post.