If you’ve been watching my Youtube series on converting a Mercedes Sprinter van into a camper van, you might be aware that I’ve been banging on about not feeling well. Turns out that not feeling to well was leading me up to having a heart attack.
Yep you read that right. At the age of 40 something, a guy who used to cycle 40 miles on a weekend without thinking about it, 32 miles 3 times a day to goto work. Someone who used to do half marathons for fun on a Sunday and a whole host more… had a heart attack.
I can;t go into too much detail about things sadly. I’ve a work situation that’s causing a whole lot of stress so I cant talk about things. Ironic really given that after a heart attack the one thing your told is to avoid stress and try to keep the blood pressure down. Speaking of blood pressure mine was ranking about the 170 / 120 – hypertension and worse, obviously what I had.
Things had gotten so bad before this that a week before I was struggling to work, blaming this on a hectic work schedule that involved many, many hours of driving, followed by up and down ladders, so a bit of leg ache is to be expected, right? Though this wasn’t leg ache, I’ve ridden 140 miles in a day and my legs never felt the pain soaring through my calves than I did walking some 20 metres from office to kettle to make a brew.
The morning of the heart attack was a mix between feeling like I had trapped wind, sleeping funny on the arm and being out of breath from being unfit. Little did I know that a hour after waking up I’d be in hospital making light of everything I my usual way I deal with anything.
Before you know it im in the cardiac care unit on 24×7 monitoring, having to barter and sign off a non blame agreement that If I go for a poop, pass away like Elvis on his throne, the staff won’t be to blame.
When you have a heart attack and you are able, you are then sent for an angiogram, a process where long tubes are sent up your arm, you get scanned and see what the heck caused your heart attack.
For me I needed a bit more investigation, signed off for 6 weeks, unable to drive for 4
