Man lucky to be alive thought heart attack was an anxiety attack
Man lucky to be alive thought heart attack was an anxiety attack
Jerry Van Orden took his heart attack for an anxiety attack and made a last minute decision to seek medical help which ultimately saved his life.
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0.41 -> [Music]
4.009 -> if you are having a heart attack would
7.47 -> you be able to recognize the symptoms or
9.9 -> would you be in denial it's something
12.03 -> people want to think about or don't want
13.769 -> to think about but as part of our series
15.179 -> where the gown with UT physicians one
17.73 -> man hopes his experience serves as a
19.619 -> warning to others
21 -> I'm completely panicked I can't make
23.34 -> this pain go away
24.779 -> even as Jerry Van Orden felt a stabbing
27.21 -> pain in his chest and a numbness in his
29.849 -> left arm I got in the truck and couldn't
33 -> close the door or put my seatbelt on he
36.059 -> was still in denial he was having a
38.34 -> heart attack
39.21 -> his wife urged him to get to an ER but
41.85 -> he was hopeful his symptoms would go
43.739 -> away it was the longest six hours of my
46.379 -> life Van Orden was moving heavy
49.02 -> equipment around at his job at a local
50.82 -> theater when he started experiencing the
53.1 -> symptoms he was heading home to lay down
55.41 -> when he instead turned into a UT
58.05 -> physicians clinic a decision that
60.18 -> ultimately saved his life he was
62.34 -> sweating he looked very uncomfortable he
65.309 -> told me he was having one of his anxiety
68.189 -> attacks but his primary care physician
70.47 -> dr. Araceli Vasquez recognized what was
72.96 -> really happening and had him transferred
75.06 -> to a hospital 12 weeks after having two
79.38 -> stents put in Van Orden says he has
81.509 -> stopped smoking and made major changes
83.49 -> to his diet while the chicken fish no I
87.42 -> don't I can have one steak a month
92.54 -> and he's getting back to doing the
94.49 -> hobbies he loves dr. Vasquez says Van
97.22 -> Orden suffered more typical symptoms of
99.23 -> a heart attack but wants people to be
101.09 -> aware of less common signs things like
103.85 -> abdominal pain I have a lot of patients
106.01 -> that think they're having you know acid
107.54 -> reflux indigestion Van Orden hopes his
110.48 -> experience is a wake-up call for others
112.94 -> especially men when we're stubborn and
115.55 -> all those things I get it to recognize
117.44 -> the signs of a heart attack you don't
119.84 -> want to accept it and then even while it
121.82 -> was happening I'm telling myself no this
123.86 -> is not what's happening no this is not
125.479 -> what's happening you know been in the
126.92 -> back of your head that it is what's
128.81 -> happening
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsjMZEtjkFI