>>>>This suddenly seems pretty trivial to me. I got a call an hour ago from my brother Kevin saying our mom had a heart attack this morning and was in the ER. I worked my way through the phone system at Maine Med and got to the ER and then a ward nurse on a different ward. She couldn't give me much information with HIPAA and privacy laws but I take it as encouraging that she was moved out of the ER. She said she would ask the attending doctor to call me. My mom has lived in Maine her whole life and is 79 years old with some health issues. You never know how serious they are because she is a true Mainer, never complaining unless maybe she has a gunshot wound. Fingers crossed....
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>>>Hope your mom gets well quickly.
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>>The news has gotten significantly better. They found that one of her ventricles was 90% blocked, which they blamed for the heart attack. They cleared that. She is not allowed phone calls yet but I was told she is awake and alert. The doctor did call me and said she is fine and should be released on Saturday. (Indian; have I happened to mention that I like immigrants?). What an enormous relief.
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>Wonderful! With a lot of heart issues, the treatments and repairs are so far advanced now as to be almost routine and the recovery rate is generally terrific. Glad this one went well.

I was able to get her on the phone yesterday and again this morning. You're right about how advanced treatments have become. It still amazes me that she had a heart attack in the morning and sounded like her normal self in the afternoon. I don't know exactly what the procedure was to clear the ventricle but they didn't have to cut her open.