Nick Lappos - Get Well Soon

[OnePerRev]

It was Reported in another thread that Nick is inn the hospital, recovering from massive cardiac arrest.


Nick - We will keep you in our prayers as one of the family. Speedy and full recovery is wished for you.


Maybe some R&R will get you to be soon chiming in here.

[SASless]

I have heard from Nick.

He is recovering and expects to be out of Hospital very soon.

Long story short...he did not have a typical Heart Attack and in effect there is no damage to his Heart as a result of what happened.

He has had a De-fillibrator installed which should prevent any catastrophic events as he experienced in Church last Sunday.

He described it as being a Hereditary Malady that can be passed down and is usually discovered prior to about age Forty.

The very good news is the lucky Sod managed to find the exact right time and place to have that problem manifest itself....something like seven Doctors sat around him in the Pews....one being a Cardiologist.

He expects to be back at work in a week or so but the bad news is he has permanently lost his Medical.

I am sure he will be along to tell us of his progress.

[CRAN]

Get well soon Nick, always love your posts.

Glad you're ok.
CRAN

[VeeAny]

Get well soon Nick.

[ShyTorque]

Just shows how dangerous religion is.

Best wishes and get well soon, Nick!

[Nigel Osborn]

I'm sure you'll be back to full speed very soon! I lost my license too after 45 years & it's surprising how I don't miss flying anymore & I don't have all your qualifications.
Get well soon & enjoy your new life. We do expect to hear from you still!:ok:

[Self loading bear]

Get well soon.
There should be many Revs left.
SLB

[handysnaks]

Agree with all the above, best wishes Nick.

[muermel]

Get well soon Mr. Lappos, all the best :-)

[soggyboxers]

Get well soon Nick. I look forward to learning more from your posts again soon

[John Eacott]

I had a long chat with Nick on Friday, and as SASless says he chose the right place! Apparently Mary asked if anyone could help as he slowly collapsed (as most of us doze off during the sermon it wasn't immediately apparent!) and 5 doctors and two nurses (one from the hospital emergency admissions) saved his life :ok:

In his words:

My heart went into fibrillation while sitting in church and my blood pressure went to zero, next thing I knew my head went down on the pew!

As divine luck would have it, in the congregation were seven medical professionals including a cardiac surgeon. Mary organized the best CPR money could buy that kept me alive for the 10 minutes it took for the ambulance to arrive with a defibrillator.

My heart is entirely undamaged and there is no blockage so it really wasn't a classic heart attack.

The MRI found an inherited 3/4" growth on the interior heart wall that is the absolute cause. It is possible that my kids can have it. They will check my genetics to see.

On the internet: "an inherited condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which causes a thickening of the heart muscle, especially the wall between the two ventricles. In severe cases, the extra muscle obstructs the passage of blood out of the heart and may cause fainting or even sudden death. This disease usually occurs before the age of 40 and can affect children as young as age 10. It has been responsible for the deaths of several young athletes. "

To fix it, a defibrillator/ pacemaker works like a charm. They put one in this week.

He should be back home now and approaching a time to start traveling and enjoying life: get well soon Nick.

[helmet fire]

Great news Nick. Thinking of you!

[Ascend Charlie]

...and on the third day he rose again, but no longer sitteth on the right hand of the copilot. Nick was lucky to have doctors in the church, if he needed a lawyer he would have been clean out of luck there. Wish you a speedy recovery.

[megan]

+1 to all the above. The wings may be folded, but the spirit lives. You'll be playing touch with the kids in no time I'm sure Nick. All the very best.

[Sir Korsky]

Nick has helped me out and the people I work with on many occasions. He'll be along again in no time I am sure. Get well soon Mr L ! :ok:

[Gordy]

Echo everything....

[helimutt]

Get well soon Nick. Just means you'll have more time to pass on some more words of wisdom on PPRuNe. :ok:

[Paul Cantrell]

Nick, glad you're okay. Best wishes on your recovery!

[cattletruck]

So many times has Nick clearly, unequivocally and undisputedly sorted out many of the grey areas of them egg-beaters that live as preconceptions in our mind.

Your job's not over sonny, instructors can only know so much, and your impeccable knowledge on the subject is very much respected, listened to and absorbed.

Get well soon Nick, and we look forward to hearing from you very soon.

[tottigol]

All the best wishes for a quick recovery Mr. Lappos.

[Wwyvern]

Best wishes, Nick, from a Brit who was always grateful for your help and advice many years ago.

[heli1]

Sorry to hear the news Nick....Sounds like you were fortunate with those around you at the time.Am also sure you will bounce back so good wishes from the UK.

[IFMU]

Glad to hear you are ok Nick!
Bryan

[Rotorbee]

Get well soon Nick.

[twinstar_ca]

get well soon, Nick... I too, lost my medical after a small stroke in 2003 and a triple by-pass in 2008.... I have found we make great passengers!!!! ;)

[Lonewolf_50]

Get well soon Nick, and come "see" us.

[chopper2004]

Nick,

Speedy recovery mate ,

Take care,

Cheers

[Phoinix]

I wish you a speedy recovery Nick!

[tigerfish]

Nick,
The big pond is no barrier to your fame, so i send best wishes from the UK to you. Get well soon!

Tigerfish

[[email protected]]

Get well soon Nick - I have just lost a colleague to ischaemic heart disease who was younger than you and wasn't so fortunate with the medical profession.

[Soave_Pilot]

Best wishes to a speedy recovery from Brazil to you Mr. Lappos, your contribution to this forum has helped many of us.

God Bless!

[NickLappos]

I am reminded of the Douglas Bader story of graciously greeting a beer hall full of former Luftwaffe pilots by asking, "Christ, I thought we killed you all!"

I am quite fully recovered with no residual damage, and feel great. Thanks to you all for the wishes and support, and the kind words!

Here is the story, an expanded one from the shorter one I sent via email to a few:

Mary and I had one heck of a scare last week that started last Sunday. I am quite well now, but the story is something! Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested.
On Sunday, Sept 18th, my heart went into fibrillation while sitting in Mary's Later Day Saint's church in Madison, CT. My blood pressure went to zero, next thing I knew my head went down on the pew!
As divine luck would have it, in the congregation were seven medical professionals including a cardiac surgeon. Mary organized the best CPR money could buy that kept me alive for the 10 to 15 minutes it took for the ambulance to arrive with a defibrillator. I truly owe my life to these fine folks who stopped the service and turned that pew into an ER. The team worked on me from head to foot, with a thoracic surgeon who reached to my femoral artery to call out the pulse (there was none). They switched off the compression guy about 6 times. Overheard from the team: "Push harder!", "But I'll break something if I do!" "Then Break Something!"
Their teamwork paid off, my heart and brain are entirely undamaged.
In the hospital they searched for the cause. A dye check showed that here is no heart blood flow blockage so it really wasn't a classic heart attack. Later an MRI found an inherited 3/4" growth on the interior heart wall that is the absolute cause. It is possible that my kids can have it. They will check my genetics to see. I think it is from my father's side but am not sure. On the internet: "an inherited condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which causes a thickening of the heart muscle, especially the wall between the two ventricles. In severe cases, the extra muscle obstructs the passage of blood out of the heart and may cause fainting or even sudden death. This disease usually occurs before the age of 40 and can affect children as young as age 10. It has been responsible for the deaths of several young athletes."
To fix it, a defibrillator/ pacemaker works like a charm. They put one in at Yale Hospital this week. I am home recovering for a few weeks and feel great. Mary is a great helper so I am as comfortable and happy as someone with an electric train set implant can be! My pacemaker logs onto the internet each night and downloads the days experiences for the Doctor's office.
I still work for Sikorsky and I am looking forward to retirement in a year or two but I'm having a lot of fun at work right now. I am a senior fellow for Sikorsky now part of Lockheed Martin.

[Shell Management]

Glad to hear you are recovering and now have a Heart & Usage Monitoring System.;)

[roundwego]

Glad to hear you are recovering and now have a Heart & Usage Monitoring System.

Nice one :D

NL. May your recovery continue unabated.

[SASless]

As that new fangled monitoring is a Bluetooth device....better hope your memory doesn't get deleted by a Hacker!

[Cyclic Hotline]

Glad to hear you are doing so well, Nick. Very best regards.

[rotorboater]

Get well soon Nick, I always take a look at every post you do and they are always worth looking at. Good luck with the recovery.

[Gregg]

Nick- Glad to hear you are doing well!

[Devil 49]

Glad you're doing well and looking forward to retirement.
Guess nobody's getting your boots, Nick. (Maybe it was only my company that initiated FNGs with that question...?)

[Colonal Mustard]

Whilst I don't know Nick directly.... I must say that all of nick's posts are thought out, considered and extremely well written and focused on a technical level.

It is so ironic that out of all of us members that Nick yet again leads the way with technology and is one of the first to have an Internet of Things (IoT) healthcare device implanted.

I will chuckle intently when he decides (in a couple of weeks no doubt) to publish a list of experiments he will have conducted on himself to see how the device works and understand it's "flight envelope"..... just make sure you don't turn the darn thing off...:=

Speedy recovery :ok:

[Thomas coupling]

A little angel was sitting next to you that day Nick. They did what they were paid to do and saved you for another time so that we could benefit from your wisdom for a wee while longer!
Rest and recuperate and enjoy being looked after by your family old boy.

Best wishes

[TeeS]

That's the age we live in!! "It seems to have stopped working - oh bugger - try switching it off and back on - that seems to have worked - right where was I? Ah yes Psalm 23; The Lord is my......"

Bloody good to hear you are recovering well Nick.

TeeS

[Arm out the window]

Great to hear you're well and feeling good, Nick! There may be something to this church business after all ...

[rancid]

Get well legend!

[Droop Snoot]

Medical or no medical, I'd still rather have Nick in the right seat than A. Tony Moss!