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10 years of life
- By nanamo · Posted October 19, 2009
- Journal · 3 recommendations
- today is 10 years of having a massive heart attack at the age of 32 family history and smoking were my factors women need to edcuate themselves in warning signs and symptons of heart attack for women ...
Life with a survivor
- By wdiane · Posted June 26, 2009
- Discussion in Tips for caregivers · 3 recommendations
- My husband experienced a sudden cardiac arrest on May 2. He was saved by people who administered CPR to him immediately and the paramedics who shocked him. After spending a month in the hospital he is ...
The stages of grief/acceptance
- By Jamesrochelle · Posted November 5, 2009
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 2 recommendations
- Until this week I had been going along in what I refer now to as denial. My SCA happened in July and within a week I had an ICD. It all happened so fast and without warning. I had a dream last night and ...
Arrhythmias
- By redhead4u777 · Posted October 8, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- In my mind I was planning out my day, mindlessly performing my pre-work morning rituals. Make my lunch-check. Iron my shirt-check. Wake up on the kitchen floor. What? Did I just faint again? On the way ...
life after sca
- By Tch4fn · Posted June 13, 2009
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 2 recommendations
- Hello new friends, On April 4th at 4:00 a.m. I went into full cardiac arrest. My wonderful husband began CPR and saved my life. I was rushed to the ER and then flown to a bigger hospital in Birmingham ...
Should I get an ICD for Cardiac Sarcoid?
- By luv2fysh · Posted February 25, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 2 recommendations
- Hi- I have sarcoids on my heart and my doctor is telling me I should get an ICD. I just came across this site looking for more information on living with an ICD. While this is a wonderful place to share ...
Our 13 year old girl passed away from a cardiac event
- By tdhssp · Posted January 1, 2009
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Our little girl passed away in December 2006 from a cardiac event at the age of 13 years. Samantha had a rare chromosome disorder and a bicuspid aortic valve, however, no other similarly diagnosed persons ...
Obituary...
- By Axykatt · Posted December 11, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- Words cannot create for you a proper effigy Describe your manner, the way you loved, or your personality. Your intellect was vast but your manner never vain Though times were sometimes tough never once ...
Why'd I survive?
- By NWWriter · Posted March 11, 2008
- Journal · 2 recommendations
- As I'm approaching my second 21st birthday (SCA 7/16/87) I'm quietly pondering how this 21st differs from my first 21st. It's an especially poignant time, too, right now, because the picture I've got ...
ICD, LQT, low potassium
- By edmar · Posted November 3, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I'm a SCA survivor, and i'm lucky to be alive again. I fainted, April 23, 2009, the reason i was rushed to the hospital. I was admitted for 12 days, and after a series of tests and investigation, my doctor ...
HAS ANYONE OUT THERE HAD MORE THAT ONE PHANTOM SHOCK
- By bingo · Posted October 31, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 1 recommendation
- Has anyone out there had more than one phantom shock? I have had (2) two. I was told that I dreamed it. If I did then it wasn't funny. I'd just like to know if I'm losing it or have already lost it. bingo ...
I'm an RN that got hurt and my health went to pot!
- By RobynRae · Posted October 7, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- This is my first time on this site to recored any info and I hope I do it right! I'm still in the learning stages of the computers and what I can and can't do which is keep my fingers on the right keys ...
love the fall weather
- By nanamo · Posted September 29, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- but hate how my body aches every year today its 50 crisp cool morning here in ga mountains and yeah i hurt my chest bothers me buts its a ache from being sawed and pulled apart...anyone else hurt in the ...
ummm...my chest is beeping....
- By mery · Posted August 29, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Ok, so I get up this morning and I'm sitting in the bathroom, just sitting, yawning and what not, ya know the regular morning bathroom stuff....and I'm hearing this beeping. So I look all around like ...
Here Comes my ICD
- By adad5757 · Posted August 13, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- Greetings to one and all again, I am just amazed at the amount of wonderful people here on the site and the profound and loving support that everyone is quick to give and share with each other. So many ...
Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder..it has a name??
- By eviefor3 · Posted June 29, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- finally........a name for what so many of us go through every day. now i have a LEGITIMATE excuse for what i do lol A. A. A. D. D.: Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests ...
Travelling around the world with a St Jude ICD
- By blake76 · Posted May 17, 2009
- Discussion in Living with an ICD · 1 recommendation
- Hi I've been advised not to go travelling to places too remote or where hospitals could not support my ICD. I have a St Jude ICD but I'm struggling to find which countries they have follow-up clinics ...
new member
- By pam82 · Posted February 25, 2009
- Discussion in Surviving SCA · 1 recommendation
- Hi my name's Pam, i hope i've put this in the right place sorry and feel free to move it elsewhere if needed. I survived a cardiac arrest at the age of 24 in 2006 and i've just found this group and would ...
Thank goodness I found this site.
- By Laura802 · Posted February 22, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I just found this web site tonight, 3 weeks exactly from my true love's SCA. I didn't even know that term until now. I'm thankful to be able to hear from others who went through similar situations. Dan ...
Losing our 16 year old son
- By skydog · Posted February 18, 2009
- Journal · 1 recommendation
- I'm not sure if I'm in the right discussion group but I have been searching the internet trying to find one and I hope nobody minds that I place this entry. We lost our 16 year old son this past September ...
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