Sunday, June 19, 2011

Father's day and so much more!

Happy Father's day to everyone out there who is a dad, acts like a dad, wants to be a dad, is just like a dad or a dad-to-be!!


Today is Father's day for my husband as well as everyone else's husband. Yet it is sooo much more.
Ten years ago today; Father's day 2001, Ron had a massive Heart Attack, it took over 18 hours for his cardiac enzymes to get more normal. After a stress test on Thursday afternoon, they send him home on Thursday evening. Everyone was notably happy and a bit surprised that he had borderline damage, as well as lived through it. (NOTE: his symptoms started somewhere around 3am, he did not say anything to me until 9am....%$#@^& MEN!!)

Friday was a day that was uneventful. 

Saturday we got up, and I was making breakfast, while he was playing on the computer, and he said to me my arm is bothering me, I am going to go lay on the couch. (his left arm) I was concerned(being an educated health care worker). I told him I thought perhaps we should go back to the hospital. He waved me off. Twenty minutes later, he said "Ok, I'll go back."
Sure enough he had a 2nd heart attack in the same area of the heart. He was kept in the ICU for 3 days and then was sent to Deborah Heart and Lung Hospital where he would undergo Angiography, and possible stenting or whatever.  the whatever turned out to be a double bypass.

That started our summer from Hell, as I ended up having a kidney stone that wouldn't pass, my Mom ended up in the hospital down in FL with chest pains...no heart attack, but she needed 5 bypasses, which were followed by infections in one of her leg incisions. Then they had her on too many BP medications, and he kept passing out, they had lowered it so low., and In August we had to put my beautiful White GS "Honey" down (tumor enveloping her bladder and ureters)...then of course we all know what happened on Sept. 11.

anyway...

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY RONNIE!! and CONGRATULATIONS on this your TENTH ANNIVERSARY of SURVIVING a MASSIVE HEART ATTACK!!! I love you and am OH SOOO GRATEFUL that you are STILL HERE WITH US!!

Here is the card I made for him, I'm keeping the inside to myself :)


Card stock by STAMPIN' UP, Printed paper-BASIC GREY-Olivia, German scrap by COLLAGE STUFF, roses rec'd as a RAK, Top sentiment computer generated, bottom sentiment by RAINDROP ECHO DESIGNS, Prisma color pencils and blending pencil, Digi Image--Unknown, can anyone help with that?

3 comments:

Toriz said...

Yeah, that would definately qualify as a Summer from hell! *Hugs*

I hope Ronnie had a great day, and I'm glad he made it through and is able to be celebrating the tenth anniversary of doing so. I hope he is able to celebrate many more Fathers' days, and that the two of you have many more years together!

Life@Cee said...

I'm glad this Father's Day was uneventful for you. May you and your husband be blessed with many more years together.

blackdragon said...

I am so pleased your Husband survived a massive heart attack and has had 10 more Fathers days to celebrate.
My husband wasnt so lucky.... he died of one 5 years ago this july.
I wish you and Ronnie a happy long life life together.
love lynx