ERLING R. - LIVING TO TELL THE TALE
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ERLING R. - LIVING TO TELL THE TALE
Erling R. was working in Cary, MS separating cows with his son when he began feeling strange. “I was getting very, very tired,” Erl says, “And I started feeling a little pain in my chest.”
Erling had quit smoking the month before and thought the burning in his chest was his lungs aching from the withdrawal.
He left early to drive home to New Orleans to rest. Shortly after falling asleep, he was awoken by an immense pain in his chest. “I decided I was going to drive myself to the best heart hospital that I knew of,” Erl recalls.
Upon arriving at Ochsner, Erl was in cardiogenic shock, hypertensive and in congestive heart failure. At that time, he was treated with an Impella, a state-of-the-art heart pump, and his blood pressure immediately stabilized.
I decided I was going to drive myself to the best heart hospital that I knew of.
“My father, his father, had a massive heart attack[s] and [they] never lived to talk about it. I was the first one of us to tell our story afterwards,” says Erling. When the Impella was removed, Erl asked if he could keep part of the device as a souvenir. “I have it at my house, on the wall, in a frame,” he says, “The technology saved my life. I really treasure the time I have and look forward to a great future.”