A scare for the Trampster...

Tramp Steamer

Tramp Steamer

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Night before last I was sitting in front of the TV when out of the blue I had a chest pain, and a pretty darn good one to. I took a couple of slivers of nitro, but it didn't do much, so becoming a bit worried I called 911. The Fire rescue truck was at my door in less than two minutes, and the ambulance crew was there in about five. They put me on O2 and off we went to the hospital.
The chest pain had mostly subsided by the time we arrived at the ER, so after an EKG and blood work-up, the ER room Doctor had me admitted. The next morning a cardiologist scheduled a cath lab for me and off I went.
The Doctor who was doing the angiogram found a 90% blockage in a left circumflex vessel and opened it up with a medicated stent. The procedure was successful and I was removed to the ICOU. I spent the next six hours quietly laying on my back, not moving my right leg, in order for the insertion site in the femoral artery to clot over. That seemed to be the worst part of the entire experience.
I was discharged this morning and came home, where I promptly died. Just kidding.
The prognosis is I'm good to go for a few more years, and I just thought you might like to know. :)
 
Sorry to hear about the blockage. Be sure to take things easy for a while - no drinking, smoking or wild women. Well at least cut out the drinking and smoking.
 
Good to hear you're getting better

just out of curiosity, were the first responders volunteers?
Regardless, good for them, for responding so quickly.

Best wishes,

slim
 
Tramp Steamer said:
Night before last I was sitting in front of the TV when out of the blue I had a chest pain, and a pretty darn good one to. I took a couple of slivers of nitro, but it didn't do much, so becoming a bit worried I called 911. The Fire rescue truck was at my door in less than two minutes, and the ambulance crew was there in about five. They put me on O2 and off we went to the hospital.
The chest pain had mostly subsided by the time we arrived at the ER, so after an EKG and blood work-up, the ER room Doctor had me admitted. The next morning a cardiologist scheduled a cath lab for me and off I went.
The Doctor who was doing the angiogram found a 90% blockage in a left circumflex vessel and opened it up with a medicated stent. The procedure was successful and I was removed to the ICOU. I spent the next six hours quietly laying on my back, not moving my right leg, in order for the insertion site in the femoral artery to clot over. That seemed to be the worst part of the entire experience.
I was discharged this morning and came home, where I promptly died. Just kidding.
The prognosis is I'm good to go for a few more years, and I just thought you might like to know. :)
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We need you and your humor here on the all zaniness site to keep the yeasayers and aiming system folk from taking over.

Tell me what you think about air pivots when you have the time.:grin-square:
 
SLIM said:
just out of curiosity, were the first responders volunteers?
Regardless, good for them, for responding so quickly.

Best wishes,

slim
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The Firefighters here are paid (we have 12 stations and a training facility) and I am a retired member of their group. Tramp Steamer used to be a Firemarshal.
The crazy thing about firefighers (God bless em') is they'lll run into a burning building while eveyrone else is running out. :)
 
Damn, Tramp...

I could have saved you a lot of dough by doing a similar procedure here at the Sunnyside garage. Just got this new, made in the USA, very heavy duty toilet snake. :p

Ah, time was probably of the essence...

Be well, buddy.

Best,
Brian kc
 
We need you for more than a few years, Tramp.
We need more time to figure out some of your jokes...:confused:

So take care of yourself

regards...pt
 
Good to hear your doing better,we don't need yet another person passing away way to soon on us.
 
Tramp Steamer said:
Night before last I was sitting in front of the TV when out of the blue I had a chest pain, and a pretty darn good one to. I took a couple of slivers of nitro, but it didn't do much, so becoming a bit worried I called 911. The Fire rescue truck was at my door in less than two minutes, and the ambulance crew was there in about five. They put me on O2 and off we went to the hospital.
The chest pain had mostly subsided by the time we arrived at the ER, so after an EKG and blood work-up, the ER room Doctor had me admitted. The next morning a cardiologist scheduled a cath lab for me and off I went.
The Doctor who was doing the angiogram found a 90% blockage in a left circumflex vessel and opened it up with a medicated stent. The procedure was successful and I was removed to the ICOU. I spent the next six hours quietly laying on my back, not moving my right leg, in order for the insertion site in the femoral artery to clot over. That seemed to be the worst part of the entire experience.
I was discharged this morning and came home, where I promptly died. Just kidding.
The prognosis is I'm good to go for a few more years, and I just thought you might like to know. :)
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good to hear brother! glad your well.........keep on keepin on
 
jrhendy said:
We need you and your humor here on the all zaniness site to keep the yeasayers and aiming system folk from taking over.

Tell me what you think about air pivots when you have the time.:grin-square:
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Thanks, jr.
I, personally, have never cared for a pivot, be it air or otherwise. I much prefer the more refined movement of the pirouette, followed immediatly by an en l' air.
This is where the working leg is raised high off the ground. It is especially dramatic when used with the break in 9 Ball.
The grand jet'e is one of my favorites as it adds a dramatic effect to what would otherwise be a very dull aiming system. This is where, after a shot is made, the shooter (almost always yeasayers) makes a big leap. If, during the leap, they should employ a split in mid-air then they are guaranteed a round of applause. :)
 
Tramp Steamer said:
Night before last I was sitting in front of the TV when out of the blue I had a chest pain, and a pretty darn good one to. I took a couple of slivers of nitro, but it didn't do much, so becoming a bit worried I called 911. The Fire rescue truck was at my door in less than two minutes, and the ambulance crew was there in about five. They put me on O2 and off we went to the hospital.
The chest pain had mostly subsided by the time we arrived at the ER, so after an EKG and blood work-up, the ER room Doctor had me admitted. The next morning a cardiologist scheduled a cath lab for me and off I went.
The Doctor who was doing the angiogram found a 90% blockage in a left circumflex vessel and opened it up with a medicated stent. The procedure was successful and I was removed to the ICOU. I spent the next six hours quietly laying on my back, not moving my right leg, in order for the insertion site in the femoral artery to clot over. That seemed to be the worst part of the entire experience.
I was discharged this morning and came home, where I promptly died. Just kidding.
The prognosis is I'm good to go for a few more years, and I just thought you might like to know. :)
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Well I'm happy you didn't stroke out because the rabble needs a strong leader to fight off the repression of the Joey A - led cheerleading nits.
 
Tramp Steamer said:
Night before last I was sitting in front of the TV when out of the blue I had a chest pain, and a pretty darn good one to. I took a couple of slivers of nitro, but it didn't do much, so becoming a bit worried I called 911. The Fire rescue truck was at my door in less than two minutes, and the ambulance crew was there in about five. They put me on O2 and off we went to the hospital.
The chest pain had mostly subsided by the time we arrived at the ER, so after an EKG and blood work-up, the ER room Doctor had me admitted. The next morning a cardiologist scheduled a cath lab for me and off I went.
The Doctor who was doing the angiogram found a 90% blockage in a left circumflex vessel and opened it up with a medicated stent. The procedure was successful and I was removed to the ICOU. I spent the next six hours quietly laying on my back, not moving my right leg, in order for the insertion site in the femoral artery to clot over. That seemed to be the worst part of the entire experience.
I was discharged this morning and came home, where I promptly died. Just kidding.
The prognosis is I'm good to go for a few more years, and I just thought you might like to know. :)
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Happy you're doing ok. This place would be kinda dull without you.
 
Glad your doin better I'm sure somebody would have missed you around here.....crickets. lol I actually like your posts :p

And the real heros of the world are.... doctors, nurses and all the E services, they never get enough credit imo.
 
my wife would have said,' It's just gas," and gone on to play pickle ball.

Just kidding. I live in Sun City West and half of the population have stents installed and are still playing 36 holes a week.

Tell you what though. Here's my plan for when I rattle my last 9-ball. I want a memorial service , of course, and a large wake/party with an open bar afterward. But my pool buddies, if I know them at all, will try to skip the service and go straight from the pool room to the open bar. So what I have planned is that when people leave the memorial service they will be given a ticket . This ticket will have to be presented in order to attend the wake and bar. That way I can be assured of a large attendance at the service having to endure a long stretch of testimonials about what a great guy I was and how much I will be missed.

What d'ya think, Tramp? :woot:
 
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So glad to hear that you are well.
Great response on your part and on the fire rescue truck.
Stay healthy- we need you.

This line has been added merely so that the entire post doesn't look like a weird, miscounted haiku attempt.
 
Scary sh*t, man! Glad you came out of it alright. I get nervous when I get indgestion:p
 
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