I have a non anal, non sexual story to tell, some may find it exciting...I'll give it a try and see if anyone is interested. It will be in installments tho....if may suck for lack of anal.


Tuesday Morning: Erik has a couple of beers as usual and then heads out to do his daily routine. Suddenly he feels severe pain in his chest like someone is tearing apart his insides. It is so intense that it takes his breath away and he has to go to the ground. It subsides significantly but is still painful. He wonder's if he should just wait it out. He decides to go to the emergency room.


Just for safety and HIPPA sake, Erik Smith is a fictional name.

 

Tuesday around 1pm. Raj is excited because he is done early with his day. A couple of small orthopedic cases were all he had. He walks out to the parking lot and is putting his computer bag into the s2000 trunk. He gets a call on his cell phone....




Phew, it's just a friend on the heart team who has seen Raj putting the bag into the car. She's sitting across the street in an eatery with the rest of the heart team. They've had an early day too. They invite Raj to hang out with them for a while. Raj orders a lemonade/iced tea and talks to his friends. He mentions that the call team this beautiful Southern California tuesday is the same one as the last time they had a really big bad emergency case. One of the people on this call team is part time, but seems to be a 'black cloud' for big bad cases.

 

Erik is in the ER, he feels better due to some morphine, but is wondering what happened. His vital signs have been checked and a CT scan has been ordered. Erik has been healthy all his life. He doesn't take any medications. He's in his early 40's, married, doesn't smoke, drinks a little, smokes a little marijuana.

 

The Heart team is a close knit group. It consists of a lot of guys and a few women. The guys are regular guys and talk a lot of trash and fairly rude to each other in a guy way. The women are really cool in that they do not get offended and often egg on the guys or comment right along with them. It makes for a very good team dynamic where everyone gets along and works well together. When there is work to be done this team is a well oiled machine with everyone knowing and doing their part and helping others.

 

I'm still reading..keep goin

 

One of the nurses gets a phone call. A heart team tech tells her there's a rumor of a Thoracic aortic dissection in the ER. We all say STFU LIAR, but she's serious.

Another nurse calls the ER and sure enough it's true. Thoracic aortic dissection always involves the Heart team if it's an operative case.

3 tense minutes later the call...The first nurse looks up and says, we have a Bentall, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentall_procedure)

 

hurry the #### up.

 

I'm actually okay with this pace!

 

damn bro fulling replacing the aorta......damn. No wonder you guys perk up

 

Erik has a thoracic aortic dissection. If it gets worse it's liable to cause deadly consequences. He's really confused. He doesn't feel that bad, just that one bout of chest pain. Coming to grip with the reality is difficult. He's been told that the cardiac surgeon will come talk to him. Dr. Heart Surgeon is a handsome man in his 50's who comes in and talks to Erik. He explains the procedure to Erik. He talks about the risks and benefits, what will happen in the operation, what would happen without the operation and what to expect afterwards. He explains that the cardiac anesthesiologist is on the way to talk to him too.