[Heeplist] Health issues

Sat Jan 13 10:04:17 EST 2018

I had a sudden heart stroke on 17th Abril 2006.

I have managed to survive because:

-an excellent private insurance health plan, great doctors, etc

-the essential support and company from my family.

-my soul will be listening to my beloved band forever, but my heart 
preferred me to keep on listening to it ALIVE for many years to come!

Em 13/01/2018 02:31, Bob Winward escreveu:
> Tony, thank you for sharing.  I know there are many on the list who
> have or had struggles, work, health, family.  Yes through it all we
> all have a common bond of friendship and love for Uriah Heep music!
> You’re isn inspiration!
> 
> Tough times never last but tough people do! I have always said that
> no man’s life is devoid of problems,  his character is honed by how he
> handles them!
> 
> Bob Winward
> 
>> On Jan 12, 2018, at 9:41 PM, Kevin Milanowski <11scorpio06 at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I've never met you on the list Tony but I've been on for quite a 
>> while my
>> name is Kevin I'm glad you got your health issues straightened out 
>> and I
>> pray for you in the future God bless and take good care of yourself
>> 
>>> On Jan 12, 2018 5:11 PM, "Tony Bryson" <T_Bryson at msn.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I pre-ordered the signed limited-edition vinyl and the CD. I wish it 
>>> were
>>> in the cards to see one of the shows, but nothing really close 
>>> enough for a
>>> day trip. I would love to see some of you guys, especially since I 
>>> missed
>>> Ron's wedding. I've try to keep up with the list, even though I have 
>>> not
>>> posted for a while.
>>> 
>>> 2017 was a little challenging to say the least, health and career 
>>> wise.
>>> Last year started with an elimination of my position March 1st with 
>>> the
>>> company I worked for 18 years and them exercising the non-compete 
>>> clause,
>>> effectively taking me out of market for my career for what I have 
>>> done for
>>> 25 years for at least 18 months. Still I figured I was resourceful 
>>> and at
>>> 62 started working on a plan. Then in the middle of the process, in 
>>> May,
>>> one of my sons noticed I was having some type of issue and made me 
>>> check my
>>> blood pressure, which showed my pulse rate which was showing 170 to 
>>> 175. He
>>> and my wife made me go to the ER. I had had episodes late at night a 
>>> few
>>> times before over the previous months, took aspirin and went to 
>>> sleep
>>> because I didn't want to alarm my wife in the middle of the night, 
>>> woke up
>>> in the morning and was fine. The right side of my heart was doing 
>>> 320 bpm
>>> on the top and 170 on the bottom, so the BP device only showed the 
>>> 170, and
>>> was having what is called atrial flutter.
>>> 
>>> Ended up in the ER 3 times between May and the end of August with 
>>> them
>>> shocking my heart back to rhythm twice since meds couldn't control 
>>> it. The
>>> last time I developed a-fib on the lefts side of the heart, as well 
>>> as the
>>> flutter. There was not a way I could keep going to the ER and find a 
>>> new
>>> career, so decided to have two different procedures on my heart in 
>>> October
>>> I've stayed busy helping my son some with the studio business while
>>> recuperating. Now after a few months of recovery, I seem to be out 
>>> of the
>>> woods except for some minor residual issues and am looking forward 
>>> to a
>>> better 2018. Luckily, I kept my health insurance through cobra last 
>>> year
>>> even though it was way too much and had a really high deductible, as 
>>> the
>>> total bills for the heart issues paid by insurance were hundreds of
>>> thousands of dollars for last year. Still this puts us out of 
>>> traveling for
>>> concerts for now unless something radically changes. Should have 
>>> made one
>>> of my sons be a cardiac doctor so I could retire.
>>> 
>>> I don't write this to garner anything from anyone, only to warn my 
>>> friends
>>> that you should make sure to take care of yourself and not be 
>>> stubborn,
>>> especially since many of us are older and getting more stubborn. If 
>>> you are
>>> not on blood thinners and have weird feelings around your heart, 
>>> take
>>> aspirin if you are allowed, follow-up immediately, better safe than 
>>> not. I
>>> had tests prior to all of this that were normal and it caused me to 
>>> not do
>>> anything when the issues started. Doctor said I was lucky I didn't 
>>> develop
>>> a clot one of the previous multiple times I had the issues, and 
>>> never wake
>>> up, especially with my history of high red blood cell count, and 
>>> father's
>>> multiple issues who died at 46 from a stroke. He said taking 
>>> multiple
>>> aspirins each time may have been a life saver, who knows. Things 
>>> could have
>>> turned out a lot worse, God had to have been watching over me.
>>> 
>>> I see so many with much greater problems and challenges than I have, 
>>> and I
>>> count my blessings in friends and family every day. Luckily, I have 
>>> 4 great
>>> sons, and a fantastic wife who has made sure I followed the doctor's
>>> orders. She is one of God's angels in more ways than one putting up 
>>> with me.
>>> 
>>> I hope one of you get to do a Pledge Music to play on stage with 
>>> them,
>>> would love to see a video of one of you guys with them.
>>> 
>>> Have a blessed year, Keep on Heep'in
>>> Tony
>>> 
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