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On Thursday, March 31, 2011 Pat Schwind had a heart attack.
A real heart attack, like in cardiac arrest, congestive heart failure,
or angina pectoris
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Pat was at his home working out and he was feeling weak. A friend drove Pat to the doctors office. There Pat had a heart attack and collapsed in the waiting room. Pat was then taken by an ambulance to the Arizona Regional Medical Center in Mesa. There they put a stent in one of his arteries which was clogged Pat was then hospitalized over night. He was doped up and had a breathing tube forced down his throat. At 5:00 p.m. the next day they performed a quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery on Pat Schwind. The operation took a little over three hours and finished shortly after 8 p.m. A quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery is a really, really big set of words doctors use to say they replaced 4 clogged arterys in Pat's heart with four unclogged veins they removed from his leg. (Why these doctors can't talk in English beats me, but I am just a lowely computer programmer, who is no where near the God level of a doctor) According to Marie, Pat is fantastic shape after the opperation. Well fantastic shape for someone that just had open heart surgery. Mentally Pat has fully recovered and is back to his old normal self. Pat was hospitalized for a total of 5 days and is now back at home. How much did it all cost? A measly $209,000 for the 3 hour opperation and 5 day hospital stay. Check out Pat's medical bill. That is almost $42,000 for each day Pat stayed in the hospital or amost $70,000 for each hour Pat was in the opperating room. You thought that illegal drugs people use on the street are expensive? The legal drugs used in this oppertion cost almost $16,000 - $15,428.90 to be exact. Which was almost $3,100 a day. It will take Pat 6+ weeks to recover enough that he can drive. |