Well i get out of surgery and they wheel me into the Hospital room where i get to spend the next 3 wonderful days. The first 3 hrs they come in every 15 min and do my vitals. Since it was about 9 o'clock when i finished surgery i didn't sleep very well if you can imagine. After 3 hrs they came in only 2 times and hour and then finally when my family arrived the next day it was once and hour.
The doctor had few more test ran on me to see how much damage happened to my heart. I only hoped it was not very much so i can play baseball and continue to be active. My older brother who had the heart attack at 21 lost i think a quarter of his heart. I was a little scared because i would like to have my heart. I wanted to be around for our kid and our 2nd one on the way. After the test were done the dr. said there was maybe a scar on my heart that was about it very minimal. they told me i had one thing going for me that was that i was young and that we caught it so fast and the dr and nurses at malad hurried me up here that there was no significant damage. What a relief I couldnt wait to get back into action. playing baseball and sports getting back to work everything.
Probably the highlight of the hospital stay was they said i can get up on my own and use the bathroom without telling the nurse. When i went to do this without asking i unplug my moniter and then as i went into the bathroom i heard all these beeping noises and people came running in. I told them i was sorry and that i was told i could go anytime i wanted to.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
July 4,2009.... The Day That Changed My Life
It was a hot summer day in malad. I was with my family all weekend looking forward to some good food and fun. My wife and i were in charge of dinner that day and we started making the best bake beans you ever had. I was asked to go umpire some softball games that afternoon. I felt just fine through out the whole day.I wasnt sick or dehydrated or anything. After i was done with the softball games were over my couzin ben said we had a dodgeball game right now. So we took off and got in the arena and won 3 games with a little break inbetween. Our 4th game we bearly lost and if we would have one we gone to the championship. About 5 min after our last game i had this dull heavy pain in my chest like someone was standing on me and it hurt. My wife said i looked pale. and was confused. I hadnt eaten anything all day except for breakfast and it was around 4pm. i was wondering confused across the park, because i was sweating like never before and felt like i wanted to throw up. After pacing back and for across the field i decided to head towards the bathroom to go throw up. I spotted my dad. He was getting something to eat and i told him that i dont feel good. he asked me what was wrong i told him my chest hurt really bad and i felt like throwing up. he asked if i wanted to go to the hospital and i said yes. He went to go get the truck and bring it to me. I layed down and my energy left me. i couldnt move. I just had the dull pain in my chest that was hurting more and more. When we got to the hospital i thought i was dehydrated untill the dr. gave me a Nitro pill and that helped the pain go away i then relized i was having a heart attack.
Heart Attacks run in the family i guess you could say. My dad has had 2 my brother had one at age 21. he is now 32 and is still doing fine. My grandparents both had heart attacks.
I figured i would have a heart attack one way or another i just didnt think it would be so soon. After the dr. gave me the nitro pill i felt great i stopped sweating my chest pains went away. I was able to talk to my family who were there, and umy strength returned. The nitro pill then stopped working and i felt i was going to die.
They gave me some Morphine and more nitro pills but they did not seem to work anymore. The morphine helped a little bit but i could still feel the pain. They called the lifeflight and it was going to take me to Macadee Hospital but it was raining in pocatello so they could not come. I was hoping for a helicopter ride because i always wanted to ride one but i guess the ambulience would do. I knew all the nurses in the ambulience so it was a good ride. they drove 90 the whole way there and we got there fast. I was trying to enjoy myself the best i can so i would crack a few jokes and felt like waiving to the people as they let the ambulience pass them.
We arrived at macdee and they instantly put me in to the Cath Lab were they send a camera and a wire up through your groined artery and look into all the arterys of your heart. After a hour and a half i was pretty comfortable i just about feel asleep a couple of times but my pillow kept on falling off the skinny bench they had me on. He found one artery closed do to fatty build up and ended up putting a stint in. It was the weirdest feeling. once he put it in i felt better. My heart would flutter which was normal because it was trying to get blood to those arterys that were effect by the closed artery.
Heart Attacks run in the family i guess you could say. My dad has had 2 my brother had one at age 21. he is now 32 and is still doing fine. My grandparents both had heart attacks.
I figured i would have a heart attack one way or another i just didnt think it would be so soon. After the dr. gave me the nitro pill i felt great i stopped sweating my chest pains went away. I was able to talk to my family who were there, and umy strength returned. The nitro pill then stopped working and i felt i was going to die.
They gave me some Morphine and more nitro pills but they did not seem to work anymore. The morphine helped a little bit but i could still feel the pain. They called the lifeflight and it was going to take me to Macadee Hospital but it was raining in pocatello so they could not come. I was hoping for a helicopter ride because i always wanted to ride one but i guess the ambulience would do. I knew all the nurses in the ambulience so it was a good ride. they drove 90 the whole way there and we got there fast. I was trying to enjoy myself the best i can so i would crack a few jokes and felt like waiving to the people as they let the ambulience pass them.
We arrived at macdee and they instantly put me in to the Cath Lab were they send a camera and a wire up through your groined artery and look into all the arterys of your heart. After a hour and a half i was pretty comfortable i just about feel asleep a couple of times but my pillow kept on falling off the skinny bench they had me on. He found one artery closed do to fatty build up and ended up putting a stint in. It was the weirdest feeling. once he put it in i felt better. My heart would flutter which was normal because it was trying to get blood to those arterys that were effect by the closed artery.
27 Who would have thought
A little bit about myself
Hi my name is Jesse Howe. I am 27 years old. I am married to an amazing woman who has stood by me through everything. I have a one and a half year old son who always puts a smile on my face. I decide to create a blog about whats going on with me personally. Its more of something to look back on and how i have progressed. It probably wont be updated very often but we will see how it goes. I think of it more as a Journal then anything else. So It might be boring who knows.For those who don't know me very well. I am a pretty simple guy. I can easily be bribed with food and love to help others around me. I am currently going to school to become a Teacher/Coach. I am from a small town called Malad, Idaho. Served a Lds Mission to Lansing, Michigan. I have been married for 3 years now almost 4 and it has been awesome. I am a fun person to be around and in the color coded personallity i am a yellow, but people usually figure that out by being around me.
Friday July 3. 2009. Oh Happy Day.
I get off of school and hurry home so we can take off to my parents house in Malad. It is going to be a awesome weekend. Malad usually has tons of activites going on over the 4th of july. They have bed races, fireworks(which are not the greatest but it is still fun) and tournaments like softball, dodgeball, toddler races. tonz of things to do. Alyssa got everything packed up and we had to stop at the store for a few things. I walked into the bathroom and noticed a pregnancy test sitting on the counter reading positive. We were so excitied that we forgot to get my mom a birthday present. opps. we had dinner at wingers with my mom she had came over to pick up some grandkids. told her happy birthday. We didnt tell anyone she was pregnant because she was only 2 or 3 weeks along. But we were excited. then off to malad we went and played games with my family that night
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