ken's V. A. adventure

Before

After (stent in place)

Ken's been feeling a little poorly for awhile and he finally took himself to see his wonderful people at the Veteran's hospital instead of going to work on Monday.

It was a really, really good thing!

These are pictures of a major artery to his heart.  When he went in, they quickly decided to admit him and do some tests.  The first clue was a slightly elevated enzyme in his blood.  Things quickly moved to doing a heart catheterization where they put in a stent to open up this nearly occluded artery in the before picture (the really skinny place just inside the shadow on the x-ray).  I think he averted a major heart attack.  The amazing thing to me was that the surgery took about three hours and he was home the next day, a little sore, but with so much more energy.  (He had actually predicted what was wrong, but didn't want to face it.)