Sandra stone:
CLASS OF 1978
James T. Alton Middle SchoolClass of 1978
Vine grove, KY
Sandra's Story
Sandra is from Fort Dix, New Jersey. Sandra's schools include James T. Alton Middle School. Sandra works(ed) at The Estate Of Earl Shaw, The Estate Of Earl Shaw, The Estate Of Earl Shaw.
Music Sandra likes includes I Mostly Listen to Audio Books. Books Sandra likes include Christine Feehan, Karen Robards, The Official Iris Johansen Fan Page. Movies Sandra likes include Gone. TV shows Sandra likes include HGTV, Sanctuary.
One of Sandra's favorite quotes is:"Treat others as you would have them treat you! Do Unto others as you would have others do unto you. Love they neighbor as you would have them love you.".
More about Sandra:"A very happy mother of this beautiful 5 yr old, my 17 yr old nephew and stepsons 12 and 18. My heart and soul are forever joined with my Husband Bill. Life is wonderful!
At 42 my husband and I found out we were expecting a beautiful daughter and we were thrill and understandably concerned with my age. Everything went great till the last trimester. My BP shot up to 214/106 and I was put in the hospital where they determined I could not carry the baby to term. They kept me for a week giving me meds to help the baby's heart and lungs and scheduled me for a C-Section on 11/11/05. The let me go home for a few days to get things ready but I had to report to the Dr's office every morning for blood test and BP check and a listen to the little heart beat. Around 11:00pm the night before the scheduled C-Section I started having the most intense pains, I had my gallbladder removed several years before and suffered a lot during my pregnancy from (constipation)... NO ONE ever told me that labor pains felt like constipation pains, only a lot lot worse. I was up all night and finally woke my husband at 4:30am so we could get to the hospital at our arranged 5:45am time frame. The C-Section was scheduled for 7:45am. Upon arrival we are told that I was 1cm dilated and my contractions were less then a min apart. They still planed on doing the C and they would not give me anything for the pain. At 6:30am my water broke and in 10 min I went from a 1 to 10 and was ready to push but no one else was ready. I was still in a surgical prep room without even a call button. They rushed me to a delivery room and scrabbled to find my Dr or any Dr who could deliver the baby. Kathryn was born 6 weeks early and totally natural 14 min prior to a scheduled C-Section. We spent 4 days in the hospital and then we went home. I noticed a lot of swelling in the hospital and I had to be almost completely vertical to sleep as I could not breath when I lied down. I did mention these things to my Dr and he just said it was the stress of the natural child birth and my age. We went home and I progressively got worse. By 4am I knew I was in serious trouble. My nephew took me to the ER and I left my sweet new born baby at home with my husband. I walked in the door and set for 2 hrs before they finally saw me. I was taken back and when they tried to get an oxygen reading with the little finger monitor it would not even register. They had the do the needle blood oxygen.... PAINFUL test and determined my blood oxygen level was 51%... they put me on an IV drip of lasix and order a Echo. The Echo showed a EF% of 17 (of course I had no idea what this meant and no one ever used the words "congestive heart failure or abnormal heat" to me). They kept me there for 17 hrs and then they sent me home with the promise to see my DR first thing in the morning. I still could barely walk but I was breathing better. I still could not sleep in a bed so I set up in a chair and went to see my Dr the next morning. He did not bother to read the reports from the ER. He took my lasix away and gave me an inhaler and told me it was asthm...Expand for more
a. I used an entire inhaler in 3 days trying to breath. I called and called my Dr to tell him what was going on and he kept telling me it would take about 6 weeks for everything to get back to normal and that I needed to stop calling him everyday. For the next 2 weeks I honestly felt that I was dieing. I could not even go to the bathroom without help by this point. My husband took me back to the Dr office and insisted he do something! He called a pulmonary specialist he knew and asked him if he could see us that day and that he would send over the records. After he hung up the phone he told my husband and I both that he never bothered to read the ER report and that maybe he should have and well he was sure the pulmonary specialist would figure it all out. So away we went to another Dr office. The Dr took one look at the report from the ER and said "You are in Severe Congestive Heart Failure, didn't your Dr look at this report?" We told him no that he admitted that he had not and felt it was asthma. The Dr promptly sent to the pharmacy for lasix and made me take it there in his office and then scheduled me for a batter of month long pulmonary testing schedule... yes pulmonary tests. At the end of the month I still could not breath well enough to lie in bed nor could I walk across the room unaided and the Dr determined I had no pulmonary issues/damage. I went the ER Nov. 15, 2005 and finally saw the cardiologist on Jan. 26, 2006. He was amazed that I was not in a coma at this point and that with an EF% of 17 and blood oxygen of 51 to 60% (was 60% when I got to his office) I was the deadest walking person he had ever seen. This seemed to really amaze him that I was conscious. He did another echo and still 17% and the EKG came back very abnormal so he decided to do a cath to see what was going on. They did the cath and all came back good except for an extremely enlarged left ventricle which they already knew. There were no blockages. He started me on a drug regiment and we all hoped for the best. 3 days later we found out that Bill (my husband) no longer had a job as they were downsizing the plant he was manager of. My Mom started having chest pains so they sent her to Paducah to have a heart cath done by my cardiologist (4 days after my heart cath). When the Dr came out of the procedure he looked so incredibly sad and told me "Sandi I'm sorry there is just nothing we can do for her. She has advanced heart disease and vascular disease and there is just nothing left to work with". They gave her 6 mths to a year to live. Bill found a new job in Mississippi and had to start right away. I stayed back in Ky to sell the house and take care of the kids and my mother till we could get moved. To this day I still do not know where I found the will to do what needed to be done being as sick as I was. But we got our home ready for sell and determined we would have to move my mother with us as there was no way she could take care of herself. So we put her house on the market as well. Our house sold and hers did not .... we packed up both houses and moved into my mothers house till we could close on our new house in Mississippi. The children got a real kick out of camping in her huge living room in sleeping bags. We had everything put into storage and we were ready to get moved. On Sept 19 we finally closed on our house in Mississippi and moved Mom down on the 21st of September 2006. Mom died Aug 21, 2007 in our home in Mississippi after also being diagnosed with cancer in Feb., 2007 and today my EF% is up to around 40. Life is good and I am so very happy to be PPCM survivor. It's not an easy road but one I would not trade as our daughter is the most precious thing to us. Live life to it's fullest!".
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