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<\/a>Warren Ward<\/p><\/div>\n
For those who may not know, what is a full IRONMAN?<\/strong>
\nIt is a 2.4 mile open water swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile run.<\/p>\nAre you an elite athlete?<\/strong>
\nOh heck no! I\u2019m pretty much a middle-of-the-pack kind of guy, maybe top third at
\nthe half marathon distance and always bottom third at any kind of triathlon or
\nmarathon.<\/p>\nIt was exactly a year ago today. You were training for the Portland marathon and<\/strong>
\nsomething happened\u2026<\/strong>
\nYes, August 17, 2014, something very bad happened. It was 2 weeks before
\nwhat would have been my 36th half marathon in Disneyland, followed a month
\nlater by the Portland marathon. I was out doing what was planned to be an 18-
\nmile run and I was taking it at a very comfortable pace. At mile12, I was feeling
\nvery good and the remaining 6 miles were going to be pretty easy. Then I started
\nto have this very subtle weird feeling. I couldn\u2019t pinpoint it at all, just that
\nsomething was wrong. Physically, I felt fine. Then I started getting this
\nincreasing feeling that something bad was going to happen. This sort of
\npremonition thing is not normal for me at all. I still felt physically fine and stayed
\non pace. Then it built up until it was almost like a voice in my head repeatedly
\nsaying \u201cDoom is coming your way!\u201d This was the weirdest thing. So I stopped
\nand kind of did a quick head to toe check and concluded that I was physically
\nfine. I felt very weird, but I couldn\u2019t tell at all what part of me was the problem. It
\nwas like everywhere and nowhere. I debated for a moment whether to finish the
\nremaining 6 miles, or turn around and go 3 miles directly home. But this \u201cdoom\u201d
\nthing was consuming my thoughts. Something was definitely wrong, but I had no
\nidea what. So I decided to sit down on a large rock that was nearby and sort out
\nwhat I was feeling. It was early on a Sunday morning and I was on a very quiet
\nstreet with no cars at all. The houses were all set back far off the street, and I
\ndidn\u2019t have a phone. The rock was in front of a wall so I wasn\u2019t visible from the
\nhouses. This is where I should have died.<\/p>\nLet\u2019s skip forward a second. What was wrong with you?<\/strong>
\nThe clinical diagnosis was \u201c100% occlusion of proximal LAD\u201d, the worst form of
\nheart attack. This is the one they call the \u201cwidow maker\u201d. I always picture Fred
\nSanford faking it, grabbing his chest and saying \u201cIt\u2019s the big one! I\u2019m coming to
\nsee you Elizabeth\u201d. When proximal LAD gets completely blocked it causes a
\nmassive heart attack and usually a sudden death.<\/p>\nSo at this time, you had no physical symptoms at all?<\/strong>
\nNo.<\/p>\nNo chest pains?<\/strong>
\nNone. I just felt weird but nothing specific. And I couldn\u2019t get this \u201cDOOM is
\ncoming!\u201d out of my head. I was sure that it was a nutritional thing because of my
\nlong run.<\/p>\nSo then what happened?<\/strong>
\nI heard a car coming fast down a driveway that was a few feet away. The driver
\ncame to a sudden stop just beyond the wall, right next to me. She rolled down
\nthe window and asked if I wanted a ride home. My first thought was, \u201cWhat
\nwoman is going to offer a strange guy a ride like this?\u201d She even knew the
\nneighborhood I lived in, and got me home very quickly. Yes, I did go back later
\nto verify that this was a human and not an angel. Seriously.<\/p>\nWhy didn\u2019t you have her take you to the hospital?<\/strong>
\nI thought about asking her to go to the ER, but in the absence of physical
\nsymptoms, I was convinced this was a nutritional problem. My first potentially
\nfatal error. In other words, pay attention you guys over 40: I was in denial. Go to
\nthe ER! Actually, this was my second fatal error. The first was not carrying a
\nphone.<\/p>\nSo now you are at home. Was anybody else home?<\/strong>
\nNo, I was alone. My wife was out doing a long run also. Looking back, going
\nhome was an extremely bad choice because I knew nobody would be there.
\nThat means nobody to help me or call 911. At first, I lay down on the floor still
\nwondering what the heck was wrong. I could have easily died right there on the
\nliving room floor. Anyways, then I thought that if this was nutrition it won\u2019t go
\naway until I eat something. So I took a small bite of a banana and instantly I
\nwanted to throw up. Finally something physical and nausea is very unusual for
\nme, so then I knew something really was wrong.<\/p>\nAnd at this point you had no other symptoms?<\/strong>
\nNot yet. Well, the whole \u201cdoom\u201d thing was still in my head and getting worse. It
\nwas more like \u201cDOOM is upon you!!!\u201d at this point. With the nausea, I
\nimmediately thought about \u201cheart attack\u201d, but at that time I didn\u2019t understand how
\nthe \u201cdoom\u201d thing fit with that. Again, guys over 40, a \u201csense of impending doom\u201d
\nis actually a documented symptom of major heart attacks. Don\u2019t ignore this one!
\nEvery second counts. So I remained in denial for maybe 30 more seconds.
\nThen I started to feel a very subtle ache on the left side of my jaw. It was about
\nthe size of a quarter and under any other circumstances I would have totally
\nignored it. Then it clicked. That was now two heart attack symptoms. I\u2019m having
\na heart attack!<\/p>\nSo then you called 911?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m a guy over 40, of course not. First I took two aspirins, which every doctor
\nagreed was a great decision. Guys\u2026CALL 911. Do not do what I\u2019m about to
\nsay. Then I followed that wise decision with a very foolish one. I went to the
\nfront door, bounced up and down a couple times on my toes, took a couple deep
\nbreaths, swung my arms around, and concluded that I was still in control
\nphysically and could make the drive to the ER faster than an ambulance would
\ngo.<\/p>\nNo! You drove yourself?<\/strong>
\nYeah, I drove myself. It was less than two miles and I figured I had a least a few
\nminutes left. So I drove 85+ mph to the ER. When I got there I was feeling
\nVERY weird and could tell that I was going down hill rapidly.<\/p>\nSorry, but that was stupid.<\/strong>
\nI know, I know. That was very stupid. And I lost count of how many doctors
\nscolded me for that. Guys\u2026CALL 911. It was only by God\u2019s grace that I made it
\nthere. I only had a few moments of control left. I parked right by the door,
\nwalked in, and told the nurse I thought I was having a heart attack. Right away,
\nthey took me to the back and I sat on the edge of a gurney. Everything seemed
\npretty low key like it was a slow day for them. But as soon as they put the EKG
\non me everybody jumped into high gear, like someone disturbed an ant hill.
\nRight away two people pushed me down and others pulled me to the top of the
\ngurney so my feet weren\u2019t dangling. Someone else pinned down my arm while
\nanother stabbed an IV in me. That is when it hit me: \u201cDoom is coming\u201d meant I
\nwas about to die.<\/p>\nYou ok?<\/strong>
\nYeah, I still get a little choked up thinking about what it was like. At this point I
\nwas in the ER for maybe 30 seconds. They were fast! Then the doctor came
\nover and said, \u201cYou are having a major heart attack and we can\u2019t treat that here.
\nYou\u2019re going to (another hospital) NOW.\u201d Technically, I was a CODE STEMI, the
\nworst kind of heart attack and the medical emergency that has priority above
\npretty much anything else. They called my wife who was still running and let me
\ntalk to her for a few seconds. Then they started literally running my gurney out to
\na waiting ambulance. It was around this time that I started having massive chest
\npains and instantly couldn\u2019t breathe anymore. The forced oxygen they put into
\nmy nose and me rapidly panting kept me going. Once the chest pains started I
\nwas completely incapacitated.<\/p>\nSo now you\u2019re in an ambulance. What were you thinking?<\/strong>
\nI am going to die. This is it. At any moment the Lord is coming to get me. It was
\na little obvious that the people with me didn\u2019t expect me to make it. They always
\nsay your life flashes before your eyes, but that wasn\u2019t my experience at all. I
\nthought about all of the things I\u2019ve ever regretted and people that I\u2019ve wronged. I
\nknow that I\u2019m forgiven for everything, but I wasn\u2019t ready to go yet. So, I just kept
\nasking God to save me. The paramedic repeatedly asked me to try to keep my
\neyes open and to keep talking. But I said very little verbally because breathing
\nwas so difficult. I did look out the back of the ambulance and could see that we
\nwere on the freeway going incredibly fast, with the siren on.<\/p>\nHow long were in you the ambulance?<\/strong>
\nThe distance between the hospitals is just over 16 miles. They told me the driver
\nmade it door-to-door in 9 minutes flat.<\/p>\nAnd you were awake this whole time?<\/strong>
\nYeah, I never lost consciousness at any time. When I arrived at the second
\nhospital a huge team of people were waiting. It was amazing how coordinated it
\nwas. Like something from a movie. Some people yanking the gurney out the
\nambulance and running, others already holding the doors open. Running
\nthrough the ER and into another room that was filled with people waiting for me.
\nIn no time, they were cutting just above my leg to get to my femoral artery and go
\nup into my heart. They quickly found the problem and fixed it with a stent. Then
\nthey checked all my other coronary arteries.<\/p>\nDid they find anything else?<\/strong>
\nNo. I had a 100% blockage in the worst place, proximal LAD, but the rest of my
\narteries were completely fine. No build-up or narrowing at all. They have no idea
\nwhy this happened.<\/p>\nSo then you were fine\u2026<\/strong>
\nOh, no\u2026it was still pretty scary for a while, but at least my wife was there now.
\nDuring a heart attack the parts of the heart muscle that are not getting oxygen
\nstart to die. A large part of my heart had no blood flow for many minutes. The
\nnext few hours are critical, and many don\u2019t make it. For those that survive a
\nSTEMI, there is often extensive damage that leaves scar tissue which can cause
\nsudden cardiac arrest at any time in the future. They did an echocardiogram
\nsoon afterwards that showed my heart function was significantly impaired. After
\na couple hours in the recovery room, I was moved to a heavily staffed special
\nunit for critical heart patients. For the next eight hours or so, my heart was pretty
\nmuch going crazy with all kinds of strange rhythms. I could feel it going crazy.
\nAnd I kept going into V-tach for a couple seconds which caused alarms to sound
\nand nurses to rush in. This happened numerous times. At one point, my alarms
\nstarted sounding continuously and everyone rushed in. I could see the V-tach
\npattern on the monitor, but it wouldn\u2019t go away. One nurse was holding her
\nfinger on the Code Blue button ready to push it. Then more people rushed in
\nwith a crash cart and were ready to shock me. They didn\u2019t because I was sitting
\nup fully alert and asking what I was supposed to do. That V-tach episode lasted
\n45 seconds. Everyone said it was very unusual that I remained conscious. It
\nshould have been lights out. They also said that if I went out, they were going to
\nshock me right away. This was a very tough 8 hours. I still wasn\u2019t sure if I would
\nsurvive through the night and if I did, what kind of condition I would be in? Would
\nI be able to walk? Would I be on oxygen the rest of my life? It was pretty scary.<\/p>\nThis does sound scary. But it also sounds like something happened after eight<\/strong>
\n hours\u2026<\/strong>
\nAfter about eight hours, all of the weird rhythms stopped and my heart returned to
\nnormal. I was still scared to sleep and stayed up almost the entire night. But I
\ncould tell that my heart felt different. It felt normal. The next morning I just felt
\nlike a caged animal and wanted to be on my feet every moment they would allow.
\nThe nurses coming on duty all seemed very surprised that I was the STEMI
\npatient because I looked fine. The second night, my nurse removed the IVs and
\ngave me a portable monitor so I could walk around. The next morning I got up
\nvery early and walked back and forth, 80 laps of the unit, which was about 25
\nyards. Then some people started referring to me as the \u201cmiracle patient\u201d. On
\nthat second morning, the cardiologist who performed the surgery, ordered
\nanother echocardiogram. This test showed that my heart was functioning
\ncompletely normal and with excellent efficiency. A couple hours later I became
\nthe first person ever discharged from that unit to go directly home.<\/p>\nThat is amazing. But there must have been some restrictions?<\/strong>
\nMy permanent cardiologist, ordered me to do nothing except very slow walking
\nfor at least two months. This was very frustrating and during this time I gained
\nmore than 10 pounds. I wanted to go back to work right away, which was
\nallowed, so I missed only one week of work. They were convinced that there
\nmust be damage to my heart and continued testing to find it. After two months, I
\nwas given permission to ease back into running short distances.<\/p>\nTaking it easy doesn\u2019t sound like you.<\/strong>
\nWell, I did take things very easy and slow, mainly because I was scared. Always
\nvery slow. But exactly five months after the heart attack I ran a very slow half
\nmarathon. I then did a second half marathon just before meeting with my
\ncardiologist again. I was very concerned about exertion. Was there a point
\nwhere if I do too much I\u2019m going to have another heart attack? Or could I just go
\ninto cardiac arrest? This was on my mind all the time, especially when I was
\nrunning. But basically I was scared all the time.<\/p>\nCan you share what your current condition is?<\/strong>
\nMy cardiologist has concluded that there is \u201czero damage\u201d to my heart, and noted
\nthat this was \u201cvery, very unusual\u201d. Because of this, there is no elevated risk of
\nme having another heart attack or going into cardiac arrest. My chances are the
\nsame as anyone else. She also said that me running and constantly holding
\nback was unhealthy stress and was a problem. I braced for bad news, but then
\nshe said, \u201cI need you to stop holding back.\u201d I couldn\u2019t believe it. We then had a
\nlong talk about exertion, and they are convinced that any level of exertion is
\nok\u2026including marathons or even IRONMAN. And she recommended that I do a
\nfull marathon to get the nerves over with. God didn\u2019t just save me, he fixed me
\ngood as new.<\/p>\nSo what races do you have coming up?<\/strong>
\nIn a couple weeks will my 40th half marathon in Disneyland, the race I had to miss
\nlast year and lose my Legacy status. I will continue to do a few half marathons
\nhere and there.<\/p>\nAre you planning to do another marathon?<\/strong>
\nA full marathon could literally kill me and if possible I would like to go out in
\nstyle\u2026so I signed up for Honolulu. Hahaha. I have faith that it won\u2019t kill me, but
\nthat\u2019s a good excuse to go to Hawaii.<\/p>\nSo you\u2019re really doing the Honolulu Marathon?<\/strong>
\nYes, that\u2019s in December. And then the Surf City full in February.<\/p>\nWhat an amazing story. How do you think you got through this?<\/strong>
\nReally, I didn\u2019t do anything. Well, actually I did everything wrong. This was
\n100% God. So many people die from what I had. The fact that I was alone with
\nno phone was pretty much a death sentence right there. But God sent me a ride.
\nThen when I went home instead of the hospital, he gave me hints that something
\nreally bad WAS happening and held off the major symptoms until just after I got
\nto the ER. Then he held my heart together until I could get to the correct
\nhospital. He gave the surgical team the speed and skill to find and fix the
\nimmediate problem before I died. Then for whatever reason, what should have
\nbeen permanent damage to my heart completely healed and left me good as
\nnew. This was all God.<\/p>\nAnd IRONMAN\u2026are you seriously considering IRONMAN\u00a0again?<\/strong>
\nYes, I already registered. Lord willing I will race in IRONMAN\u00a0Coeur d\u2019Alene next
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