My dad's heart is basically a ticking time bomb

Stress Test Tomorrow

Discuss

 

My dad has heart problems too.

 

Well my dad is about 5'8" 340


He brought it on himself, i keep telling him to lose weight but he doesn't listen to me...so now it looks like he will

He told me he was at the hospital yesterday for 5 hours because they couldn't get his blood pressure down

 

stress test, hmm never had one. My dad had a bike test last month...

 

not much you can do if he doesnt want to help himself...

 

I think they hook you up, then have you run/walk on a treadmill and see what happens..I also belive they do some ultra-sound stuff

 

oh then thats probably the same thing, my dad had like a mask on to measure his air intake and stuff... the ultra sound is common procedure its called an echocardiogram.

 

Is the Church of Scientology conducting it?

 

I've done one of those.
I have chest pains sometimes. When I was younger I had them more frequently. They still don't know what it is.

 

I had to do a stress test, I was having off and on chest pains, actually it just hurt to breathe. They found something on the stress test and was in for a Cadiac Catheterization a couple of weeks later and they had to do a Quadruple bypass on me. I was 90% blocked. The surgeon was amazed that I had survived the stress test, and that I came through it without any real problems. I had been walking and climbing stairs the whole time, and even used the snowblower a couple of times. After the bypass I was in the hospital for a week. I got out of bed and was moving around on my own after 3 days. When I went home I wasn't allowed to drive for a month.

BTW I was 56 when I went through the bypass surgery.