That's all good, but was he wearing a leg rope?













To soon?

Jokes aside, great to see the reaper postponed by you all. Mark has too many boards to try yet anyway. Keep up the fight mate.

Hope you have a speedy recovery Lacey... when I saw your birth year as 1961?, thats a bit young for a fit bloke to have this sort of thing happen, I would be interested to hear what symptoms you experienced in the lead up to the heart attack.

Must admit, it has crossed my mind on occasion when going flat out...given I have a few extra years on you, but I have had the thought of the appropriate epitaph " he died doin something he loved" ..could be fun.... apart from the people who have to deal with the consequence...

..... but I reckon, me being an old surfie, I prefer it happening when surfing rather than just flat water....

Great news on Mark's recovery. It is an older guys sport so it's certainly worth a check up. Well done to all of the guys on hand who no doubt saved Mark's life. Wishing you all the best for your recovery Mark.

Get well and back on the water soon....

its already been stated, but with the combination of those events, he will have a great outcome, any links in that 'chain of surivial' and things are very different, add water into the mix and just complicates things even further.

rest up, get well and get back into it (in slow time) Lacey.

Even fit runners and athletes can get an arrhythmia that is not necessarily history based and cause major problems, the only two certain things in life is that we are on borrowed time and that the tax man will chase us.

Time for a check up again for this paddler I think???

Mate, not the same not seeing you on the creek paddling .

Someone was looking over you on saturday. Awesome effort from all who assisted with your rescue on the beach and hospital.

Be kind to the nurses Mark (not too many downwind stories)

Heres to a full recovery.

Waz

Get Well soon Lacey and a big thanks to all those that jumped in to help him, without them the outcome would of been so different.

Lacey, GWS well soon. And not too much excitement until you're completely recovered.

So if those hospital nurses are too hot, get them moved out for the good of your health and we'll start a petition to get DJ transferred up there to look after you!

Lacey, great to hear directly from you.

Rest up, stay away from the nurses, get plenty of sleep and we will do the paddling for you.

Before you know it you will be back out there.

Wonderful news that you are on the mend.

ET.

Lacey
Get well - don't know you but enjoy your posts (particularly next door)
And for all other 50 somethings out there, I had an episode a few years ago. Woke up with chest / shoulder pains about 2 am while working away and living in a motel. Did the correct thing and ignored them, went to work the next morning because there was a concrete pour on, and that was important. Sorted things out, and at about 10.00 am with continuing pain drove myself to hospital. Wandered in and said, if they weren't too busy, I had a bit of chest pain and could they check it out. WOW, whisked in to casualty, put in a bed, ECG, hooked up to a machine that goes "Bong", in to a ward.
Asked if I might go get my toothbrush from the motel next door, and told to shut up and stop being stupid.
Cleared of a heart attack hours later, but weeks of tests to establish I made the whole thing up. Family was in panic, and we need to admit we are no longer 10 ft. tall and bulletproof. Not that I ever was.
Surprised me nurses I had never met before were more concerned about my health than I was.
Blokes our age need to go to a GP.
I say, as I still ignore my cholesterol drug prescription running out 5 months after I was meant to re test.
Going next week.

Congratulations Lacey,

you made it.

I woke up after 3 days, in Charlie Gardner Hospital in Perth, after being helivacced out of Geraldton Base in the early 80's.

Still surfing won't stop till I can't.

kissa said..

Glad to hear you are on the road to recovery and thank you for sharing your story.
One of the reasons I stopped doing serious training was because a lifetime of thrashing the body can't be sustainable. Now I spend most of the time cruising. If I have to take my heartrate to 180, I'll save it for the odd race. I want to be in the water the rest of my life

"Stopped serious training" and "just cruising"....and you still flog everyone else!
Wishing you all the best Lacey for a full and speedy recovery, and congratulations to all those on hand who obviously didn't panic and did what was required to save another's life. Well done!

I went to see Lacey yesterday and it is amazing how he looks now compared to what he looked like on the beach. He said that he would be out of the hospital by Fri/Sat, which is only 1 week after his big day.

While I was there he ran through some of his new ideas. Here are some of them:

He reckons that the beds are a bit wide for someone of his calibre - he reckons that he could handle something as narrow as 24". He also noted that by adding in some chimes it would add a bit more stability. He even had suggestions about concaves and v's but he lost me there.

His walking splits around the ward are improving by the session. He is a bit annoyed, however, that his GPS does not work inside the hospital and reckons that the hospital could work on installing some new technology. I suggested a pseudolite network and he is going to do some r&d into it.

He really does not like the displacement type design of the bed pans and is confident that a more planer shape would work more efficiently. There were a few more details on the bed pans that I probably shouldn't go through on a public forum.

He had a whole lot more ideas on design changes to hospital equipment but I started to nod off a bit and don't remember them. Maybe others who went to go see him can remember and share them with us.

laceys lane said..
Hi. Yeah think that will probably be my plan too. Just be smarter and really good at your your art,/dwing

Scary stuff Lacey - good to hear things are looking up and great work by the first responders.

I'm not sure if it is has any medical basis or not and not sure how much is true for you, but I can name 5 people I know of who went through their early 30's maybe even 40's being overweight, eating wrong, not exercising, sometimes smoking. Then approaching 50 they get a new lease on life, get fitter, feel better and start pushing harder... and harder... and harder. A then the heart attack comes as a complete surprise - fit guy, jogs 2hrs a day, looks better than he did at 35, etc. etc. Why? It just seems that the legacy of not looking after yourself earlier in life doesn't completely leave us. Your experience is definitely another reminder for me to stay within limits.

Best of luck with your recovery.

kissa said..

Glad to hear you are on the road to recovery and thank you for sharing your story.
One of the reasons I stopped doing serious training was because a lifetime of thrashing the body can't be sustainable. Now I spend most of the time cruising. If I have to take my heartrate to 180, I'll save it for the odd race. I want to be in the water the rest of my life

Glad Kissa's taking it easy - he's still beating us all. I'd hate him to be training hard.

Good comments re looking after yourself early in life as it really does reduce the risk of heart attack. But even for those over 40, stopping smoking and changing poor lifestyle habits reduces the risk of stroke , heart attack, diabetes etc significantly. A change to a healthy lifestyle even after a lifetime of poor habits can have significant benefits. Just do things slowly and get checked regularly. There is a free full health check for over 45's. Ask your doctor.

I'm glad you're on the mend Lacey. Your experience has certainly got everyone talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed on the forum previously. Thanks for sharing.