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p20 weekender february 13 1993 st health medical advances saved stouffville mans life kate gilderdale correspondent realtor keith steckley owes his life to advances in medical research funded by the heart and stroke foundation quite a bit of damage the doctor said it was a massive attack they gave him a new clotdis solving drug and that seemed to work i think thats what saved me he noted the angiogram showed one of the three main arteries into the heart was maybe 80 per cent closed up i went to st michaels in toronto where they did an angio plasty this procedure involves the expansion of the artery through the insertion of a balloon it made a big difference there was no pain involved steckley stated i started on a walking program at the rehabilitation centre within two months however he was experiencing chest pains once more and the procedure had to be repeated when the same thing happened again arrangements were made for a third angioplasty about 10 days prior to the sched uled procedure i was having a lot of trouble with angina and chest pains i went into intensive care at markham stouffville over the weekend and they shipped me into st michaels keith steckley does not look like a prime candidate for heart dis ease yet last february the slim fit- looking stouffville realtor suffered a massive heart attack despite the fact that a medical examination just hours earlier had shown no sign of a problem the day before id had a electro cardiogram and blood tests he recalled the next morning i had some pain that would come and go with a lot of activity then it just wouldnt go so we headed for markham stouffville hospital in a rush a reasonably active man who had never been overweight steckley quit smoking 20 years ago and had experienced no serious health problems prior to the attack part of the main problem would be stress and its a fact that if youve smoked at all it does have an affect he spent two weeks in hospital undergoing tests which included an angiogram and stress tests they showed a problem with the heart he explained there was keith steckley his doctors agreed that the treatment was not working and decided that bypass surgery was steckleys best alternative he underwent a double bypass last august and since then i have been a lot better a threemile a day walking pro gram five days a week keeps him active throughout the year to reduce jobrelated stress he now works at century 21 in stouf fville instead of driving to scarbor ough every day im not a fitness nut but i real ize the value of keeping fit said steckley who enjoys playing golf and crosscountry skiing he is well aware of what he owes to the medical advances made in the past few years if his attack had occurred 10 years ago he said i wouldnt be alive today and if it were not for the heart and stroke foundation of ontario the medical breakthroughs that saved him would not have been possible the organization was founded in 1952 by a group of concerned researchers cardiologists and citi zens this year alone an estimated 35000 lives will be saved as a result of research and education programs funded by the founda tion heart disease and stroke are the number one killers of canadians accounting for 40 per cent of all deaths or more than 75000 lives each year february is heart month and every donation helps what are the warning signs of stroke answer the following questions and test your knowledge 1 sudden weakness or numbness andor tingling of the face arm or leg these may he brief dyes dno vf sudden trouble speaking or understanding speech dyes dno h sudden loss of vision w particularly in one eye or double vision dyes dno 4 sudden severe unusual headache dyes dno sme on deductible of most insurance windshield claims plus while supplies last no overcharge to your ins uxbri rd across from williamson ppntiac 8525382 bowmanville 6234225 port perry 9850738 oshawa 4324642 lindsay peterborough minden v