Was it cancer? I thought it was heart problems.Just got back to this thread.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Fuck cancer. I was hoping Gravy could see the Chiefs pound that Patriot ass this weekend.
So, Monday morning I'm getting ready to go back to the hospital to get cardioverted again, and en route, I have a massive heart attack.
I got to the ER, and they take me to the cath lab right away to get any blockages open. Only there weren't any blockages. My atrium have suffered so much damage, they are no longer wanting to work. My ejection fraction was at 8%, which is not very good at all, and the cardiologist went out to tell my wife that I probably wouldn't make it off the table. I could feel myself dying as I lay there, which is a surreal experience. They ended up cardioverting me anyway, and placed a balloon pump in my aorta. Super shitty day, but I made it through the night.
Next day, I find out I'm going to be on the balloon pump, which is basically making my heart pump for another day, and then they'll wean me off and see what happens. Half the staff think I'm a dead man, the other half are saying I've got a couple weeks.
Wednesday, they start to wean me off the pump, and I do fairly well with it, but I'm being heavily supplemented with drugs and oxygen. I'm being told that hospice has been notified, and that I need to get signed up for it ASAP. I actually come hope Wednesday evening and sleep until Thursday evening.
I'm on oxygen here at home, and I haven't signed up for hospice yet, but it will probably happening Monday.
tl;dr I'm dying and it sucks.
Happy to answer any questions or comments when I feel up to being on the computer. I'm also got a morale issue I need to address, and I'd like some feedback, but hopefully I have time to bring that up a bit later.
Uncle Gravy
All I know for sure is I'm getting cremated, and I want 2 poems read at my funeral. "Do not stand at my grave and weep" (which is why I'm getting cremated) and "The road less traveled". Wife is going to do whatever she wants with my ashes. She's talked about dumping some at Cowboy's stadium at the base of Tom Landry's statue, using some to make a glaze for a bowl or a cup (yes you can do that, her sister teaches ceramics and she's done it before with one of her cat's ashes. It makes a pretty blue color that she likes), and she'll keep some with her.Well, most of him is heading for the earth in the cemetery in which I played as a child (the land adjoins my parents' land). Out of his love for me, we chose a place that is a happy one for me; the cemetery grounds also backs into woods where I still hike and in the Springtime, mushroom hunt.
Parts of him will be going to special places, I haven't decided on all of them yet. Chimayo, NM is one, Knob Noster state park in MO likely one and maybe Door County WI. All special places for us.
Do you guys have your end of life plans in order? I mean I know some of you are not even a quarter century yet but if you have a family - you really should think about it.
Yea derp it was, had been avoiding re-reading this thread for a long while after I saw it the 1st time for some reason I was remembering cancer along with everyone else with cancer lately.Was it cancer? I thought it was heart problems.
Welp, here we go.Mrs. Gravy, while every indication seems to be that Gravy was an awesome individual that you were lucky to have had as a part of your life, I think we can all agree that Mr. Gravy was the luckier one. I've been single all my life (I'm 46, so don't fret about being older), but if I ever found someone even moderately attractive that could crack a joke about my cremation after I die, I would marry her in an instant.
I was hoping I wasn't the only one reading that post that way because for a second I thought I was a terrible humanWelp, here we go.
I apparently have handed out too much reputation - like being the best house on the block at Halloween, with the full size Snickers bars.Sorry for your loss. I always enjoyed Gravy's posts in the sports threads even if he was Chiefs fan. As a Broncos fan, I feel a little dirty wearing this avatar on purpose but Gravy was a good guy, I'll wear it with pride.
It was heart problems, I think people assume if you are on hospice it has to be cancer...it doesn't.Was it cancer? I thought it was heart problems.