Bill Self's health situation

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KBLEE

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Montgomery, IL
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Glad to see folks being skeptical of rumors* and waiting for official confirmations. Of course, I will now engage in similar non-official rumor-mongering!

- Insider word is he's fine. Had some chest discomfort overnight, thought it best to go get it checked out.
- He may or may not have received a stent or two.
- If a normal person with a normal non-stressful job, he'd already be up and back at life. Maybe take a long weekend to rest.
- Of course, he doesn't have a normal non-stressful job. Won't coach this weekend, but likely fine for the tournament next week.
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TIFWIW - above is second hand from a KU message board
 
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Tacomallini

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Washington State
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WyattEarp said:
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bergd91

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🙏 up to Coach Bill Self. I'm glad he got his clogged arteries stented. He's to young to be moving on. Surprised he's rushing back. Blessings and stay healthy Coach.
 
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Snoopy

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Navy_illini said:
I wonder how he knew he had to go to the ER very lucky he caught it before a heart attack
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From personal experience, Google worked. I searched on the symptoms I was having (chest, back pain and shortness of breath) and it returned get to an emergency room. So I drove myself there. Turned out my left anterior descending artery was 99% clogged. But I had no significant heart damage nor indicators of a heart attack. Went home feeling normal after 3 days or so with a stent. Hope Bill’s experience turns out as well.
 
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illiniguy

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Snoopy said:
From personal experience, Google worked. I searched on the symptoms I was having (chest, back pain and shortness of breath) and it returned get to an emergency room. So I drove myself there. Turned out my left anterior descending artery was 99% clogged. But I had no significant heart damage nor indicators of a heart attack. Went home feeling normal after 3 days or so with a stent. Hope Bill’s experience turns out as well.
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Google didn't tell you not to drive yourself to the ER?
 
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Illini in Italy

Illini in Italy
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Snoopy said:
From personal experience, Google worked. I searched on the symptoms I was having (chest, back pain and shortness of breath) and it returned get to an emergency room. So I drove myself there. Turned out my left anterior descending artery was 99% clogged. But I had no significant heart damage nor indicators of a heart attack. Went home feeling normal after 3 days or so with a stent. Hope Bill’s experience turns out as well.
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Very similar experience for me. Shortness of breath and sweating like an Iowa hawg walking off a plane on a business trip. When I got home, I discussed it the wife who is an RN, and got an appointment for that afternoon. All tests came back normal, nothing out of order. The nurse practitioner asked to to get a stress test in the morning. 30 seconds into the treadmill test, the technician mashes the STOP button, grabs me by the back of my shorts, sits me in a chair shives baby aspirin in my mouth. When you begin exercise, your blood pressure is supposed to rise - mine dropped.

A quick trip to the cath lab, and I'm laying on the table when the technician yells across the room, "Hey Tom, come look at this s*it, can you believe this guy walked in from the street with this?" HEY, I'm right here dude, I can hear you! They spun the screen around to show me the blockage of the Left Main artery. Most people are Right Main dominant, I happy to be Left Main dominant, and it was 90% occluded. They put in an intro-aortic balloon pump and wheeled me off to the ICU to await surgery. Unfortunately a stent was not possible due to the location of the blockage, so I was awarded a three vessel bypass. Recovery from the surgery (they have to cut your sternum and deflate your longs to give the surgeon room to work) was a bi@tch, but like you I had no heart attack, so there was no cardiac rehab necessary. Back to work at home in a week, on the road for work in 10 days.
 
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pruman91

pruman91
Paducah, Ky
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Illini in Italy said:
Very similar experience for me. Shortness of breath and sweating like an Iowa hawg walking off a plane on a business trip. When I got home, I discussed it the wife who is an RN, and got an appointment for that afternoon. All tests came back normal, nothing out of order. The nurse practitioner asked to to get a stress test in the morning. 30 seconds into the treadmill test, the technician mashes the STOP button, grabs me by the back of my shorts, sits me in a chair shives baby aspirin in my mouth. When you begin exercise, your blood pressure is supposed to rise - mine dropped.

A quick trip to the cath lab, and I'm laying on the table when the technician yells across the room, "Hey Tom, come look at this s*it, can you believe this guy walked in from the street with this?" HEY, I'm right here dude, I can hear you! They spun the screen around to show me the blockage of the Left Main artery. Most people are Right Main dominant, I happy to be Left Main dominant, and it was 90% occluded. They put in an intro-aortic balloon pump and wheeled me off to the ICU to await surgery. Unfortunately a stent was not possible due to the location of the blockage, so I was awarded a three vessel bypass. Recovery from the surgery (they have to cut your sternum and deflate your longs to give the surgeon room to work) was a bi@tch, but like you I had no heart attack, so there was no cardiac rehab necessary. Back to work at home in a week, on the road for work in 10 days.
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So glad to hear it has been addressed bro.........I imagine the saucy Italian foods had to be cut back ??....................

Any way , so glad you caught it b4 it caught you .................I really really am...................
 
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gibb52

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Wife woke me up in the middle of the night. We sat there for a moment or so and it didn't go away. Called an ambulance. She ended up with a stent in the widow maker. Scary and could have been much worse.
 
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purcy51

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Billings, MT
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I was at work, in the cardiac cath lab. I've worked in cardiology for about 17 years. Had been having a very sharp pain in my chest for a couple of hours. Went outside at lunch to have a cigarette ( yes I know!) . Came back in and told one of our cardiologists. He immediately sat me down and performed a 12-lead ECG. Right after that we did a echocardiogram. Next thing you know, I'm on the table getting a cath. All in about 30 minutes. Ended up with a stent in a diagonal branch which comes off the left anterior descending artery. Did not have an MI, so no muscle damage. Then...about a year later I had a massive GI bleed so they stopped all my antiplatelet and blood thinning meds & w/in 3 months I was back on the table getting 2 more stents, this time in the LAD. Still no muscle damage. I often recite the Hair Club for Men line for my nervous patients- "I'm not just a cath lab technologist, I'm also a client!"
 
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