Bad Day

[CAP1]

That story would sum up last week for me. It was a jellyfish week.

Woke up Tuesday morning and was getting ready for work. Was getting dressed and when I stood up had a sharp pain shoot across my chest. Sat down for a minute and when I got back up it started again, radiating down the backs of both arms. UH OH   Grab a fist full of asprin, chew em up, and call the paramedics. Get to the hospital and they confirm, having a heart attack. 2 hours and a cardio cath later, I'm in the ICU, left leg in a brace so I can't move it due to the hole they just put in my femeral artery. Miss my company Christmas party Wed night since I'm stuck in the hospital. Get out Thursday afternoon, get home, take a shower to get the hospital funk off me, and when I get out there is a voice mail from my ex wanting me to call her.

Round two. My ex has lost her mind since we split 3 years ago. She had 5 dogs and 6 cats in the house, wasn't keeping the place clean and when my son went to school on Monday last week his coat reeked of cat piss. The school started asking questions of him and my daughter, social services got involved, and they took my kids out of the house. 4 days later she decides to tell me what's going on. Now I know why she never wanted to me come over to pick up the kids or drop them off. So that was what I got to deal with less than hour after getting out of the hospital from having a heart attack, and all of that a week before Christmas when I STILL don't have all my shopping done, now I'm trying to make sure my kids don't end up in foster care.

Social services paid me a visit Saturday because I had the kids with me all weekend to make sure my place is clean (it is spotless and I keep it that way) but they told me if I want to take the kids full time I have to move into a larger apartment. I'm in a 1 bedroom place because it's all I can afford after paying child support.

Yeah big jellyfish

HOLY CRAP DUDE!!
hope ya get better......soon....

as for your kids.....well, you already said you';re moving,....and f you take em, you won't have the child support, so it should work out.

 i hope it does for you.

Merry Christmas dude........

[CAP1]

Hornet good job calling the medics right away and downing the aspirin. Most guys try and denie it's happening and destroy their heart or die. Hope things improve for you.

a question, although probably a stupid one.....what does the asperin do?

[Fugita]

A friend of mine was taking a shortcut across a cattle pasture one day on his way to visit his girlfriend. When he reached the end he had to climb through a barb wire fence. When he did this he ripped the crotch of his pants. He wasn't wearing any underwear at the time but he didn't get damaged. Just a little drafty. It wasn't a big rip so he thought he could live with it. So he gets to his girlfriends house and they're sitting on the back porch in those cheap nylon webbed lawn chairs. But when he sat down his pants ripped some more and these nylon webs have a tendency to spread apart when you sit on them and that's exactly what happened when he sat down and his two "co-pilots" plopped through an opening. The girlfriends mother came out on the porch with some drinks and when he tried to stand up the webs closed and he was attached to the chair. He sat back down pretty quick. After the mother went back in the house his girlfriend said he was being disrespectful for not standing when her mother was there. He explained the problem. After she took a look and finished laughing, she helped free him from the chair. He was just glad that her cat wasn't out there with them.

[Hornet33]

a question, although probably a stupid one.....what does the asperin do?

It thins the blood and reduces constrictions of the arteries. I had my first heart attack 6 years ago and ignored the symptoms for several hours thinking I had just slept wrong and that's why my shoulder and arm were hurting. By the time I realized what was going on and got medical attention the damage was done permantly.

This time around I recognized it for what it was and took action quickly, called the paramedics who administered nitro and got an IV going, and made it to the hospital where they got in quickly to fix the problem before any damage occured.

Going to the hospital sucks but better to waste a day getting checked out for something that may turn out to be nothing at all, than waiting until it's too late to fix the problem.

[smkelly13]

A friend of mine was taking a shortcut across a cattle pasture one day on his way to visit his girlfriend. When he reached the end he had to climb through a barb wire fence. When he did this he ripped the crotch of his pants. He wasn't wearing any underwear at the time but he didn't get damaged. Just a little drafty. It wasn't a big rip so he thought he could live with it. So he gets to his girlfriends house and they're sitting on the back porch in those cheap nylon webbed lawn chairs. But when he sat down his pants ripped some more and these nylon webs have a tendency to spread apart when you sit on them and that's exactly what happened when he sat down and his two "co-pilots" plopped through an opening. The girlfriends mother came out on the porch with some drinks and when he tried to stand up the webs closed and he was attached to the chair. He sat back down pretty quick. After the mother went back in the house his girlfriend said he was being disrespectful for not standing when her mother was there. He explained the problem. After she took a look and finished laughing, she helped free him from the chair. He was just glad that her cat wasn't out there with them.

Haha.