Well I'm very pleased to say I can scratch Near-Death Experience off the bucket list. Well s*** I wasn't even like near-death, I died. Along with CPR. A heart attack. A stroke. Falling down the staircase (again...oh wait, that wasnt on my bucket list anymore... been there and done that expert level)...let's see,...
being defibrillated. Being resuscitated. Slamming my neck into the floor three times as hard as I can being the last memories of my first wife. Oh, and you can forget being revived. Still no damn helicopter. Too bad I wasnt further from the hospital... oh, never mind. Lol
I remember dr.lam incorrectly diagnosing my "nutcracker of the esophagus" oh please give me a break I thought let me just get home and f****** die... hahaha and saying I was pretty intense. Maybe he'll get it now. It wasn't his fault, the EKG didn't show any signs of takotsubo then.
I think it'd be 240 beats per minute for 14 hours. No reason for a pacemaker there right? He needs a defibrillator right. Let's just let it keep running on Full Throttle.
Way back when when that happened maybe eight or ten years ago, they woke me up the next morning to go for a jog on the treadmill and I said are you out of your f****** ever-loving mind? Are you trying to f****** kill me? I tore that treadmill up... I ran on that thing hardcore and they cranked it all the way up and I kept a-rollin because it was a good day...
It amazes me how many doctors just would not believe that I had good days and I had bad days. It's amazing to me that f**** Social Security they don't believe that I have good days and bad days. They even denied me after I've been dead !!! What a farse !!! I don't have time to be better but I do have time to make change and be heard and be known. I'm also not a quitter so they're not just going to give you Social Security Disability unless you qualify but if you walk in there and appear to be okay they don't give a s*** what your records look like. I'm that guy. I refuse to quit. I am nothing compared to my father and I haven't even began life yet nor have I ever feel like I have been truly challenged when I compare myself to the great example he has always been, and I don't mind having that drive behind me. It has kept me full of Hope for life even in the most dire of circumstances and it is made me challenge myself to push myself far past above and beyond anything I could ever have been if left to my own pitiful devices. So I said I really tore up the treadmill and what I mean is like I was pretty old at that age but I ran on that thing like I was in my teens or twenties and I think the doctors just can't understand all of this stuff but that's the interment into issue of takotsubo syndrome and I'm going to keep pounding away about this until this little-known and rare disease is out there for everybody to know about until we all hear it from The Mountaintop so that other people don't get left behind.
and there's guys thought I was all full of s*** oh, but they knew that the night before I was almost gone. That was a piece of cake compared to what I went through above that remove so many wonderful items for my bucket list from hell.
Two different occasions I wore Holter monitors for either 48 or 72 hours maybe even up to 5 days I don't recall it's been a long time ago but never was any event caught them either. Again, doctor lamb is a wonderful man and in good faith treated me to the finest and best of his ability into the funnest in the best ability that science had to offer due to the evidence that was able to be examined under the circumstances. That goes for all of this medical professionals at that time. My point here is again, how do we see a head of what's really happening when we don't understand?
If I don't share experience in the hope of helping others and in the hope of seeking Solutions, then what is the point of it?
I'm joking and I'm serious all at the same time because there's not one single lie in here and I'm using a little comic relief but my point is don't ever give up Faith in the medical professionals that surround you and your community and don't ever give up Faith in yourself or the ability for the body to heal.
Anyways...
...and I thought when my best friends from high school came into town that I hadn't seen for 30 years that was a hell of a night... holy crap!!!
So there's a little sarcasm in a little humor in a little reality all mixed up but this is really part of a therapeutic exercise in expression of an experience that is most certainly miraculous and most certainly also mind blowing to a multitude of people, because I saw their eyes.