@ZEPHYRA He became short of breath walking from his car to the building at work. A friend of his who had just had heart bypass surgery encouraged him to go to the doctor. My dad was only 46 at the time, the friend in his 40’s also. Anyway, they did a stress test and wouldn’t let him finish it. Then they did an angiogra, which showed his left main artery (the widowmaker) was over 75% occluded, so they scheduled the surgery.
Years later he went for a regular check up and had been switched to a new doctor because the other one had moved away, or left the service, I don’t know, and the new doctor listened to his neck. He immediately sent my dad for an ultrasound. Long story short they did carotid artery surgery and once inside he was over 90% blocked and they felt it was safer to tie of the side. He is extremely lucky to have that perfect system (I forget what it is called) of movement of blood in his brain from one side to the other. I think his internist really fucked up never listening to his neck before. My dad had bypass at 46, that surgeon had told him since he was so young that means he has to worry about arteries blocking up, because obvious he blocks up young. In fact during the bypass they wanted to use a mammory artery, but it was too blocked so they stuck with using veins.
I don’t know what his symptoms were before the recent stent surgery.