TPC

[Gramps]

any updates on his adventure yesterday????

 

[TPC]

They just about discharged me then decided more treatment and tests.

In the AM they’ll run a stint from my wrist or groin to my neck, inject a dye, then further tests.

They think that’s where the clot came from.

Studies on strokes and their treatment have come a long way. This hospital is tops.

Thanks for asking.

There is a new treatment that will blast the clot before it damages the brain permanently but ya got a 4 hour window from paralysis to treatment.

Been an incredible experience. I was blown out rag doll paralyzed on my right side. 100 % good to go now.

Wife by my side. Knows all the staff.
When this ends I’ll post all the names and treatments.
Truly incredible. Thanks

 

[JDKRXW]

Keep pushing forward! ... and we'll say a prayer for you!
I was going to say keep your head up - but the dr. may have told you not to !!!

 

[lakemadness]

Damn, TPC. Glad to hear you're on the right path.

 

[rrrr]

@TPC This is wonderful news. We're gonna start calling you Dodger. That you've escaped any permanent damage from a couple of serious health issues is really fortunate, and I'm looking forward to many more of your entertaining contributions to this motley collection of goof offs.

 

[Mandelon]

I am happy to hear things are going well!!

 

[Gelcoater]

Holy shit!
Not something you want to hear about someone. But awesome to be reading it from them!

 

[musicFunsun]

Many good thoughts & prayers to you! Having a wife that is a nurse, well , I don’t have say it

 

[Romans9]

Great news!

Godspeed!

 

[stephenkatsea]

Outstanding!

 

[throttle]

Wow! Glad to see the positive outcome. Hang in there bro!

 

[4Waters]

Get better Ross

 

[DILLIGAF]

Awesome. Glad you have access to excellent medical.

 

[SoCalDave]

That's great news!

 

[Mr. C]

Damn I must have missed any and all of this.
So glad to hear things are positive.
As always. If there’s anything you need to help if I can I will. Just give a shout out.

 

[monkeyswrench]

That sounds like things are going well, and I surely hope they continue down that path.

Please, know that you don't have to throttle your insurance company every month...it's ok to take a break

 

[steamin rice]

Yikes! Strokes are nothing to mess around with. It sounds like you got treatment early. Hopefully you have a smooth recovery and get back to full speed quickly

 

[DaytonaBabe]

How scary! Wishing you a swift recovery!

 

[Ducksquasher]

Glad to hear you are doing well!

 

[TPC]

Man O man thanks for the positive comments everyone. It means so much.

Doctors and reps from all over are here in the Hospital learning this breakthrough treatment.
Kaiser, UCLA all kinda teams from all around the world here learning this.

Maynard dragged me out to the car.

Wife pulled me up in front of the ER, got the ER crew out to the car, a big guy lifted my rag doll body up, onto a gurney.

3 minutes of questions as needles galore in each arm, drips started, wheeled into MRI, doctor said what drug they will “push in” to fix this as they rolled me into the chamber, teams of doctors present all focused and cheering me on,,,,

MRI banging away trying to see what got me as the drug flowed in,, 12 minutes in then pulled out of the MRI,,, drug had blasted the clot off my brain and I had full feeling again.

,, as I was pulled out of the MRI I wiggled my fingers lifted my leg and wiggled my toes the house went up into a roar.

It’s been a day in the ICU with teams of Doctors coming in and out talking to me.
All here to learn it.

This is revolutionary and I am one lucky person.

Now, treatment to prevent this happening again.

Dinner:

 

[Sleek-Jet]

Jeezus Ross, I guess I missed all of this. Glad you received quick and competent care, it is amazing what they can do for stroke victims today.

 

[lakemadness]

Wow. Incredible.

 

[OCMerrill]

Wow Ross. Timing is a big deal and yours was perfect, your wife just awesome and so knowledgeable, your son was home to get you loaded, and now you have inadvertently trained a bunch of Doctors.

A fearful moment in life, that's for certain. My friend you have stories to tell and this one is full of success.

 

[waterboy]

Looks like you have a great team on your side. What were you doing when you went numb? Sleeping, sitting,walking? Were you able to talk clearly? I’ve been putting off doing the pre screening of your vessels by a private company, since insurance won’t cover it but need to make appt soon after reading this. Get home soon and let your wife - nurse take care of you.

 

[OLDRAAT]

Ross,

Glad you're on the mend. You are blessed with having an alert and loving family to get you to the hospital quickly.
Get well soon!
Tom

 

[dave29]

Somebody was watching over you. Truly a miracle. Congratulations.

 

[monkeyswrench]

I'm a believer in "all things happen for a reason". No matter how good or bad, there is a reason, a lesson or something that can be taken from it. As was brought up above, timing of big events also plays a role in life's events. Things like stopping for a cup of coffee can change the course..."butterfly flaps it's wings..." kind of deal I guess. In this case, people were around that knew what to do, and had the ability to get the afflicted to treatment. Things had to fall in place just right for there to be a good outcome...they did, and there was.

We always talk about "winning the lottery", as a comparison to tremendous odds against us. Miracles, luck or fate, however someone looks at it, it's still amazing. The hospital did their work, and apparently very well, but much more was at play before you even arrived. I'm truly very happy for you and your family

 

[Long Way Home]

So sorry to hear this, hang in there. It might be hard to see it now, but better days are coming. And remember a recovery must be celebrated….

 

[rivermobster]

Modern medicine. And a shit ton of good fortune. Amazing You can tell the story.

 

[angiebaby]

I'm so happy to hear that it seems you are out of the woods. Thank you for checking in.

 

[rivergames]

Shit man, Glad you'll be Alright!

 

[coolchange]

Wow. Know you’ve got a great support group. But we’re Simi neighbors if I can do anything.

 

[RVR SWPR]

The history all these years regarding your family is incredible. All the way back to Cottage Hospital In Santa Barbara
Well Done,all of you. Thanks Ross for including all of us thru the journeys all these years.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

WOW, holy crap Ross!!!

So thankful you are on the way to recover, what a heck of a scare man!
Best to you...I suspect Mrs TPC will make sure you are on the rehab 100%...
Amazing medicine for sure.

 

[TPC]

Modern medicine. And a shit ton of good fortune. Amazing You can tell the story.

Newer version of TPA.

A effort being made for paramedics and ambulances to carry it.
If not administered soon enough the clot will damage the brain.

The Angiogram went from groin to my neck.
Sounds brutal but was really easy and painless (except a drop of the antiseptic coating the entry area dripped on my sac and it felt like a glowing hot cigarette touched it.)

The Angiogram enters at the groin and follows an artery so the recovery healing process at the groin is the tricky part.

A special bandage on the groin entry point and inactivity for 24 hours.
Then continue pressure on it for several days.
I wadded up washcloths held in place with my waistband to keep pressure on it.

On our bed with evidence we have a German shepherd close by:

 

[Willie B]

 

[HNL2LHC]

Not sure how I missed the thread. I gotta say holy crap that is an adventure You went through. So good to hear that everything aligned for you at the time of need. Best to you and the family while you recovery and the years to come. Is there another thread or did @Gramps know what you were going through and posted this thread?

 

[Gramps]

Not sure how I missed the thread. I gotta say holy crap that is an adventure You went through. So good to hear that everything aligned for you at the time of need. Best to you and the family while you recovery and the years to come. Is there another thread or did @Gramps know what you were going through and posted this thread?

it was mentioned in another thread

 

[RaceTec]

Glad to hear you are on the mend! Speedy recovery...

 

[DrunkenSailor]

Happy to hear your doing well. Scary stuff for sure. Do what the doctors tell ya and take it easy for a bit.

 

[TPC]

Thanks for the support and kind words.

If you can't get the stroke victim in the car or truck, call the Fire department and they'll do it.
4 hour window is everything.
In my case it was rush hour, considering time for the FD to get to the house, traffic and time to get to the hospital, wife went for broke.

Larger hospitals may stock the drug, read that maybe, out here small hospitals pack you up and send you to the larger hospital.
Time is essential.
The angiogram decides if to stent (aka sleave) the artery area that is causing the issue. Encapsulate the plaque that cause this. Tricky thing to do.

Certain criteria, in my case the artery not narrow enough yet, they want to wait a couple years and control it with Plavix in the meantime.

Los Robles Hospital in Thousand Oaks is on their game.

 

[Gramps]

@TPC name of the drug???

 

[TPC]

New Version of TPA,, I think spelling Tissue Plasminogen Activator.
An IV injection, more to it than I mention.
May cause brain bleeding so was done under the CT Scanner to watch for this (not MRI like I said earlier, correct by the wife)

 

[TPC]

Lying in bed in the ICU, this affects all ages, not us old guys. Young women, kids affects anyone.
The cutest, funniest, savviest nurses made this a better experience.

We were having so much trouble will Walgreens prescription filling it's obvious they are folding and going BK, and so we switched to Walmart. Way better.

What made the check-in faster was wife gave to OK to import all my medical information from UCLA Health and that knocked serious time off the check in.

 

[coolchange]

So you went to TO. Not that little hospital by the city hall. Wife had an episode and urgent care wanted to send us somewhere out there but she wouldn’t and we went to Holy Cross. Turned out not to be a stroke though.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Lying in bed in the ICU, this affects all ages, not us old guys. Young women, kids affects anyone.
The cutest, funniest, savviest nurses made this a better experience.

We were having so much trouble will Walgreens prescription filling it's obvious they are folding and going BK, and so we switched to Walmart. Way better.

What made the check-in faster was wife gave to OK to import all my medical information from UCLA Health and that knocked serious time off the check in.

Interesting to hear you say that about Walgreens.
We have used them for 10 plus years, and recently we have been getting grief about one of my scrpits every damn time we go to refill it.
Docs have sent the approval insurance has approved, yet Walgreens blame every delay on someone else.
Out here in Podunk we don't have a walmart. if we are able to sell and GTFO here there will be one.

 

[TPC]

Interesting to hear you say that about Walgreens.
We have used them for 10 plus years, and recently we have been getting grief about one of my scrpits every damn time we go to refill it.
Docs have sent the approval insurance has approved, yet Walgreens blame every delay on someone else.
Out here in Podunk we don't have a walmart. if we are able to sell and GTFO here there will be one.

That's what we went through.
At one time on their game, really good.
Now a chain in defeat and taking their customers down with them.
Sad.
Consider Delivery pharma.

 

[TPC]

So you went to TO. Not that little hospital by the city hall. Wife had an episode and urgent care wanted to send us somewhere out there but she wouldn’t and we went to Holy Cross. Turned out not to be a stroke though.

Dr Taqi on his game.

So you went to TO. Not that little hospital by the city hall. Wife had an episode and urgent care wanted to send us somewhere out there but she wouldn’t and we went to Holy Cross. Turned out not to be a stroke though.

Staff at Los Robles say that's what happens. Simi ships you off to Los Robles, and time is critical, way too critical for that.

 

[Caydens Cat]

Great news and recovery! Hang in there Casanova

It’s been awhile but I was pretty up to date with strokes. We’ve come a LONG ways in our treatment.

Some background, I had worked on the first bed side instrument (vs large lab analyzer) around early 2000’s for determining a patient stroke in 20 minutes via blood draw. Unfortunately the assay was denied by FDA as the determination between ischemic and hemorrhagic was too narrow to differentiate in their opinion. So we nailed stroke… but because the treatments are so radically different the efficacy was denied. Can’t believe it’s been 20 years since that work.

 

[HTTP404]

Man O man thanks for the positive comments everyone. It means so much.

Doctors and reps from all over are here in the Hospital learning this breakthrough treatment.
Kaiser, UCLA all kinda teams from all around the world here learning this.

Maynard dragged me out to the car.

Wife pulled me up in front of the ER, got the ER crew out to the car, a big guy lifted my rag doll body up, onto a gurney.

3 minutes of questions as needles galore in each arm, drips started, wheeled into MRI, doctor said what drug they will “push in” to fix this as they rolled me into the chamber, teams of doctors present all focused and cheering me on,,,,

MRI banging away trying to see what got me as the drug flowed in,, 12 minutes in then pulled out of the MRI,,, drug had blasted the clot off my brain and I had full feeling again.

,, as I was pulled out of the MRI I wiggled my fingers lifted my leg and wiggled my toes the house went up into a roar.

It’s been a day in the ICU with teams of Doctors coming in and out talking to me.
All here to learn it.

This is revolutionary and I am one lucky person.

Now, treatment to prevent this happening again.

Dinner:







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So did you pass out or what? Any symptoms leading up to this? I missed the orig thread.