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Tuesday 18 May 2010


not good news. Last week in Berlin had actually started great. I felt as fit as long as no more and the evening was still in theaters. On Tuesday, then the drama began. I had felt at 5 degrees outside temperature and a cold east wind, almost 2 1 / 2 hours in the cold and work. In the evening I could tell that something is wrong. I got a headache and cough, and the pressure around the heart, which had only reported occasionally increased. The next day I went to some extent, but the pain and the cough increased. After further 2 1 / 2 hours outdoors in temperatures similar to rotten on Thursday evening, I was pretty much done. I had the feeling I have caught a flu. That I would not really worried because it was planned on Friday to fly back to Mainz - then I could have rest at the weekend. But it turned out quite differently. The pressure in the heart area widened over the entire breast area, beamed up to the left shoulder and into the back of - on Friday afternoon, I was totally wrecked. Arrival at Frankfurt airport - because I was already clear after the train home, I can not. So taxi and not go home, but in the emergency room of the competent Department in Mainz - directly and without detours. The doctor there could be my whole story and also of the infection and of course the chest pain - also from the fact that I was in a much lesser extent that would have had during therapy has been established, but never at heart by ECG was. She heard from me, took blood pressure (no ECG !!!!) and sent me with the painkiller painkillers and the diagnosis "You have nothing at heart, you have an orthopedic problem (Verspannungen!) that you should seek treatment at a Ostheopaten" back home. The night was a horror. I could not sleep despite the painkillers as good as hell and had pain in the chest and back. Early in the morning made the pain a little after and I'm back in the emergency department. There I told the new doctor that I could hold out so not to Monday and told him everything once more. He sent me then to the University Hospital emergency room to check on my to inflammation in the blood. All this time I leave now, without comment, but I have quite a rage at the incompetence of the concentrated doctor in the emergency department and also to the Notfallaufmahme in the university clinic. The fact I had on Friday called on the first trip to Mainz and have me after I had told all, caught in the other hospital to go. As I now, on Saturday, with the detour via the other hospital there was where I had been told the day before, I was not right, suddenly everything went very quickly. Frantically, I was in the stroke unit shipped to the clinic in a room and connected to the EKG, blood was taken, measured blood pressure and pulse. Then everything went very fast. The ECG was "striking in the points" - suspected heart attack, it had a heart catheters are placed and, if necessary, the closure must be operated with a stent - so great! I was strangely calm and watched the goings-almost like a spectator. Then the cardiac catheter, which I have not felt - no anesthesia, my coronary arteries were few knots - no infarction - uff! Then in intensive care - a new suspect. Possibly a heart muscle inflammation and / or pneumonia. My blood tests showed inflammation values were increased around the multiples. Diagnosis - nothing in the lung but "only" a bladder infection that I had not even noticed. Antibiotics. The night was good, I was almost pain free, although the doctor said she had actually still "not done". Okay - I got painkillers and a sleeping pill. Nevertheless, one more night before I could throw inside me so much painkillers as I wish it had been of no use. And now? The pain was felt during inhalation are strong, but not at rest -?
An MRI, so a kind of computed tomography should bring certainty - but only on Monday. On Sunday I was after a conversation with the professor dismissed from the clinic to me the next day to the MRT again einzufinden. The release came to my operation, but with the blessing of the doctor, because I wanted my son, who had already done all the therapy to me worry, no more worry. The MRI revealed then the finding of a "mild in the initial stage myocarditis. Treatment: None - except peace and not a sport. Three to four weeks I will stay home, would last at least three months, until all is healed without consequences. go to So much for my plan in two weeks to go hiking in the mountains - may be driving, but certainly not walking. And not a sport! Then I was really happy after the therapy the most.
did when I was in the hospital to the MRI, I still like my Hep-Doc attended to him the good news. "But they have a pitch" was his comment - I think so too. Good news gabs but still - not detected virus that is at least the state directly after the end of therapy. That would have been even better! I believe a negative message would have now given the rest. The next check is next week - I hope the beasts remain "not detected".
My condition at present varies greatly - sometimes you go pretty well, sometimes I feel like I'm out sick. The headache is still there - not so hard and they come first evening. The chest pain I still feel if I breathe deeply, the pain in the heart area is quite a presence again tonight - significantly more than during the therapy. There are also skeletal pain, a "strain" or something similar in the area sciatic nerve, neck pain, such as had, more or less and I am very tired. My HB was at 10.1 times the meantime, now, after this story, he is back at 9.3 - as during the therapy, yes - we remember - ended three weeks. All this does not sound really good, but what can I do? If at the end, the overall result is correct, then the whole crap for me was definitely worth it. If not I'll just give the ball ..... fun!
No, of course, I do not lose courage, but it backwards rather than forwards at the moment is very annoying.
Since my immune system is still very much in the cellar, I must not learn too soon, the "normal" life to live again. I am far from fit again. Therefore, I could also put such a small infection on the heart muscle. I know that everything is fine again, but it also is small vinous as the cries in the forest ....