snowhunter
10-06-2013, 08:00 AM
This is a story of a classic denial of heart attack.
My hunting partner, at 76, finally got his Bison LEH tag. After much preparations, we meet up in Merrit and starts to head North.
By time we reach Prince George, my hunting partner is very uncomfortable and claim that his chest pains are from his otherwise cured pneumonia he had earlier this year. I suggest that we go to the emergency in Prince George before moving on with the Bison hunt. My hunting partner, in an act of serious denial of an heart attack in progress, insist we drive on to Chetwyn, "where he will have a nice hot bath and a shower that will cure this persistent pain in his chest".
Next morning in Chetwyn, my hunting partner ask me to turn down the heat, since he is sweating a lot, and I tell him we have no heat on. I then go out and find out where the Chetwyn hospital is, and back in the hotel room, I tell my hunting partner "that he need to see a doctor in order to get prescriptions for antibiotics for his lung infection, before we move on with the Bison hunt", and he then finally agrees to see a doctor, in Fort St. John, if he still has this nagging pain in the chest. I the convince my hunting partner, in order to save time and get a prescription for antibiothics "for his lung infection", it is better to see a doctor before we leave Chetwyn, and then leave for the hospital.
After the doctor tell me about my hunting partners serious heart attack, where he was "booked" and immediately listed in critical condition, I called up his wife, and told her the bad news.
Three ours later, my hunting partner is by an Air Ambulance, airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital.
Both the doctor and nurses at Chetwyn Hospital told me "that I saved my friends life by bringing to the hospital, and I could not have brought him in much later, and he would never have made it a live to Fort St. John".
My hunting partner is under the circumstances, doing fine at Vancouver General Hospital, but still undergoing test because, due to denial of his heart attack, he waited to long to get help, and might have caused further damage to his heart ?
My hunting partner, at 76, finally got his Bison LEH tag. After much preparations, we meet up in Merrit and starts to head North.
By time we reach Prince George, my hunting partner is very uncomfortable and claim that his chest pains are from his otherwise cured pneumonia he had earlier this year. I suggest that we go to the emergency in Prince George before moving on with the Bison hunt. My hunting partner, in an act of serious denial of an heart attack in progress, insist we drive on to Chetwyn, "where he will have a nice hot bath and a shower that will cure this persistent pain in his chest".
Next morning in Chetwyn, my hunting partner ask me to turn down the heat, since he is sweating a lot, and I tell him we have no heat on. I then go out and find out where the Chetwyn hospital is, and back in the hotel room, I tell my hunting partner "that he need to see a doctor in order to get prescriptions for antibiotics for his lung infection, before we move on with the Bison hunt", and he then finally agrees to see a doctor, in Fort St. John, if he still has this nagging pain in the chest. I the convince my hunting partner, in order to save time and get a prescription for antibiothics "for his lung infection", it is better to see a doctor before we leave Chetwyn, and then leave for the hospital.
After the doctor tell me about my hunting partners serious heart attack, where he was "booked" and immediately listed in critical condition, I called up his wife, and told her the bad news.
Three ours later, my hunting partner is by an Air Ambulance, airlifted to Vancouver General Hospital.
Both the doctor and nurses at Chetwyn Hospital told me "that I saved my friends life by bringing to the hospital, and I could not have brought him in much later, and he would never have made it a live to Fort St. John".
My hunting partner is under the circumstances, doing fine at Vancouver General Hospital, but still undergoing test because, due to denial of his heart attack, he waited to long to get help, and might have caused further damage to his heart ?