Just wondering if any post heart attack patients have been denied a bypass as I have been without a reason given for the denial? And if anyone was fired from a job because of their heart disease? I had an acute MI in March of 08, they did angioplasty and placed a stent,I was released in 3 days and told to make an appointment for consultation and to discuss the damage. When I called to schedule I was told to bring the 300 dollar fee or not to schedule the appointment, they would only accept payment up front for a consultaion that I feel should have been part of my emergency treatment for a heart attack regardless of my ability to pay. (I was laid off and broke). So I ended up going to a state funded charity hospital, they discovered that the first hospital had'nt opened the stent enough so they went in and reopened it, after recovery I felt great better in fact more so than before the heart attack. After a couple months I went back to work for 3 weeks on a movie then left it to return for season 2 of Breaking Bad a Tv series(ironically named) After a few weeks I started experiencing shortness of breath and chest pain, I went back in and they discovered more blockage in the LDA and stented it afterwards they told me a diagonal artery was now clogged but because it was in between the 2 stents (stent jail) that they could not open it and I would just have to live with the symptoms.The icing on the cake was being told i was picked for first cut lay off, they told me it was for missing 5 days while in the hospital for for cath, I work in the film industry as a propmaker and when i complained that it was wrong to hold missed surgery days against me I was asked what right I thought I had to die on their stage and put my fellow employees through that trauma and my union backed them up so please boycott Sony when possible and write them letters about them discriminating on disabled people. My quality of life seriously went down so I scheduled an appointment with my cardiologist and asked about getting a bypass, he smirked at me and told me that I was not a candidate, without a reason being given. I think I'm being denied because I have no insurance and a bypass costs 25 to 40 g as opposed to the much cheaper angioplasty. Lord knows I dont want to have my chest cracked open like a walnut, but I'm willing to try about anything if it would even partially eliminate my symptoms of breathlessness, pain and chronic fatigue.
Steven