Saturday, September 5, 2009

This Thanksgiving I'll have plenty to be thankful for

My heartfelt thanks to the entire medical team of the coronary care unit of Brigham and Women's Hospital of Boston for giving me a third chance at life day before yesterday. By doing a minimally invasive procedure called coronary catheterization, they opened up two of my severely blocked coronary arteries by placing tiny stents in them. I had to stay in the hospital for only one night.

Five years ago, I had landed in the ER of the same hospital with Acute Coronary Syndrome (chest pain). They did the same procedure that time also, only I needed three stents that time and two days of hospitalization.

With five stents in my heart I better be more careful now. "Three strikes and you are out" ... I am well aware of that.

Shoban Sen
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1 comment:

A rootdigger said...

glad your okay, good thing you go in with the chest pain. I am wondering how severe?