I came but I may not be coming

[Guest Dane Scott]

Get Well Soon Mr. Purplekow

Sending you good wishes.

[+ glennnn]

Xoxoxoxoxoxo! Next year!!!!!

[+ WmClarke]

Glad you are home safe!!

[whipped guy]

There will be many PS adventures in the future! Fortunately there will be a healthy PK in that future to take advantage of them! So do look forward to 2017 and beyond as well!

[craigville beach]

I just got home from the hospital and wanted to write and thank you all for your good wishes.

It turns out I had a dissection of the left anterior descending coronary artery which was actively tearing as they did the cardiac catheterization. There was a large blood clot in the vessel but only 50% blocked but that was rapidly progressing as well.

My cardiologist tells me he has never seen this situation with this happening spontaneously and without permanent damage to the heart. I did not have any permanent damage and I had two stents and a road to recovery which will keep me out of Palm Springs this year.

 

I hope you all have a great time.

I will be thinking about you on Saturday, but not for too long, as I am no to overexcite myself.

I feel very lucky. My cardiologist tells me 10 to 15 minutes was the difference between this outcome and possibly a fatal one. I think he is a drama queen.

 

Thanks for your kind good wishes and I look forward to Palm Springs 2017.

 

sounds to me like you have a great cardiologist. don't lose him/her

[Bearofdistinction]

Congrats --

Take Care Kow and Keep your hands on the table and out of your pants!

[manTOman]

Good to see you back PK!

[+ stevenkesslar]

We're gonna miss you a lot PK

 

But I know you will be back to your regular old self soon.

 

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[rvwnsd]

PK, best wishes for a speedy recovery. I am very,very glad your cardiologist caught this in time.

[+ purplekow]

Funny how much difference a day can make. Spent about 6 hours today walking errands, can't really say running errands since I have not actual run since the Nixon administration. I feel good enough to keep my appointment for Saturday afternoon with Tyler and Ace but unfortunately that will have to wait for some other beautiful day. Tyler and Ace, I thank you for accepting this last minute cancellation so graciously. I am sure you will have no trouble filling that gap......in your dance card. Appreciate the warm regards but as much as I do, I still would have preferred the two hot men.

[+ FreshFluff]

Welcome back, PK. Please keep taking care of yourself.

[+ Socalguy]

Funny how much difference a day can make. Spent about 6 hours today walking errands, can't really say running errands since I have not actual run since the Nixon administration. I feel good enough to keep my appointment for Saturday afternoon with Tyler and Ace but unfortunately that will have to wait for some other beautiful day. Tyler and Ace, I thank you for accepting this last minute cancellation so graciously. I am sure you will have no trouble filling that gap......in your dance card. Appreciate the warm regards but as much as I do, I still would have preferred the two hot men.

 

Rob and I are really bummed you won't be able to make it this year, although you were a bad influence on me at Trio so maybe it'll keep me out of trouble Canyon Club isn't going to be half as much fun. Take good care of yourself so we can hang together next year!!

[+ purplekow]

Rob and I are really bummed you won't be able to make it this year, although you were a bad influence on me at Trio so maybe it'll keep me out of trouble Canyon Club isn't going to be half as much fun. Take good care of yourself so we can hang together next year!!

You guys are great fun. Made me feel like a sex driven adolescent with none to the nasty legal consequences. Well I guess there could have been legal consequences of some of the thing that went on in the Trio Parking lot but not of the included the word minor.

I want a blow by blow report.

I will be home enjoying a mechanically soft, salt free, low cholesterol, low sugar, high fiber, low caffeine, gluten free, high protein, low fat cleansing diet. Golden years indeed except that I believe that come qualifies, if you can manage the sugar.

[+ Robster]

I want a blow by blow report.

I see what you did there.

 

So sorry you can't make it this year!!

 

Rob

[+ purplekow]

I see what you did there.

 

So sorry you can't make it this year!!

 

Rob

Oh I intend to make it this year. Just not in Palm Springs. I am on the mend and ready to spend.

[+ Gar1eth]

PK-I hope you continue to feel better and that your health over these next few months continues to improve until you are functioning at a higher lever than before.

 

Since you are now past your cath, I can relate this story. I've had GER since I was at least in junior high-intermittent back then-chronic now. When I was about 40-15 years ago-I was having recurrent severe chest pain even while on PPIs (I think it was Protonix. As it turns out, Protonix, Prevacid and most likely Aciphex don't really work for me. I need either Prilosec or Nexium). The chest pain was so severe if someone had told me I was having a heart attack I wouldn't have been surprised. I had a treadmill test which was normal. They thought the pain was most likely reflux. But they weren't entirely sure. So they scheduled me for a cardiac cath. I had just moved to Ohio. I didn't really know anyone. My mother actually flew in from Texas to be there for it. But she probably would have done that even if I had had some friends in Ohio.

 

So they perform the cath-my heart and blood vessels were fine. (I'd be scared at what they'd show now though). After the cath, they sandbagged my leg to keep it from moving. Some (female ) nurse held pressure on my groin for whatever the prequisite time was-30 to 45 minutes and then puts a pressure dressing on my wound. My recollection of the nurse was that she was short-had to stand on a stool to reach my groin. My Mom is waiting around in the room with me. I can't remember how many hours I had to lie there with my leg held in place by sandbags. But all this time I'm getting IV fluids because they want to flush your kidneys because of the radiographic dye used.

 

Finally they say I can get up. So I go to use the restroom. I remember standing at the toilet doing my business. When all of a sudden I feel this shooting pain in my groin, and I feel faint. I either make it back to bed or someone helps me. All these hospital personnel then descend on me in a rush. They put me in Trendelenburg position to get blood into my brain. And open up my IV fluid wide.

 

 

(As an aside, I just read they don't do this anymore because they've found it doesn't actually get bloodflow to the brain after all).

 

They take my blood pressure through this-and initially it was only about 80 systolic (that's very low in case anyone didn't know.)

 

Someone also starts putting a lot of pressure on my groin again. During all this my Mom is in the room seeing me go though all this.

 

After the fluid they give me restores my blood pressure and after my groin has been held another 30 to 45 minutes-I'm ok. I can't remember if I had to stay overnight in the hospital for monitoring or not. But if I went home it was much later than planned. While I was stabilizing the cardiologist came back in. He said-"You know when I was in training -I and the other cardiac fellows used to hold pressure on the caths. But these smaller(female) nurses aren't as strong and can't hold pressure as well."

 

So obviously what had happened (for the non-medical people)-when I stood up-the clot at the puncture site in my groin wasn't stabilized (and the cath procedure makes a fairly large puncture in the artery). The clot had torn away, and I had bled between the layers into the wall of my femoral artery. It's called a pseudo-aneurysm. They tested my blood count. And from those few moments where I was bleeding into the walls of my artery, I lost a gram of hemoglobin or equivalently 3% of my number of red blood cells. After it was all over I had a nice peanut to grape sized knot in my groin for several weeks.

 

Supposedly bleeding like that after a catheterization is a known but rare complication. And nowadays they have some type of closure device which helps the hole in the artery seal better-so it probably happens even less than it used to.

 

Gman

[+ purplekow]

Certainly sounds like a scary proposition. I actually had the cath through the wrist. I can remember the days that patient's had sandbags on the groin to try and prevent bleeding. I would prefer, say Vin Marco holding down the area but I guess Vin can only be in one place at a time. Where has he been by the way?