AGCM Frank Baillie, USN RET
From: Fay Crossley
Subject: Frank Baillie
Date: Mon 1/30/2012 04:37 PM
Following received from Frank Baillie's son Mark. Frank is Fred Baillie's older brother.
Hello all hope you all survived the snow storm. hope it's our last this year. Earl called and cancelled our last meeting due to the pending storm,Thank god he canceled the meeting.Sorry I haven't gotten back to you all sooner,but we have been busy running from one Hospital to another.My father's heart decided to take a two minute time out on Sat. and I don't know what i would have done if It had happened while we were driving down the road at the time.
We were sitting around watching the football game when he started to conplain about something not feeling right with his chest, so I took his heart rate and his blood pressure.His heart rate was a little higher than normal about 25 Beats so i checked it by hand on his wrist and I could not get a pulse on his left wrist so went to the right and it was fast and erratic. so again to the blood pressure / heart rate machine now I watched as the heart rate was fluttering ,and gained another 30 beats going to 105 beats so we called 911. when the paramedics arrived they asked some questions and hooked him up to a heart monitor and saw that his heart was in Ventricular Tachycardia and was quivering more than pumping.He passed out a few minutes later ,and the paramedics were doing C.P.R. on Dad it took a couple of minutes to get the his heart back in rhythme but they stablized him at the house. Then it has been from harrision hospital to U.W.medical center where they installed a I.C.D. device in his chest. I.C.D stands for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator. It helps control his heart rate to keep it from going into ventricular tachycardia agian, or if it gets too high then he has his own defibulator in his chest to give him a kick start.( the docter's say it's like getting kicked in the chest by a mule ) He spent about a week in and out of hospitals then we got back home the 21 of January.We are now getting some in house / home care from a nurse, a physical therapist, and a home care to assist him with bathing and teach him techniques into getting dressed easier. I don't know when we will be able to get together again.
Frank Baillie
1693 Roosevelt Ave SE.
Port Orchard, WA. 98366-2947
VR...Fay
