frye@cuuxb.UUCP (frye) (01/22/86)
Well, that'd explain what happened to a local firechief a couple of years ago. He had an old school bus he was con- verting into a camper. He fell of a fender and ended up in the hospital. The folks there figured he had a infection in the mitral valve and it burst open. That would have dumped all kinds of nasty things into his system. I do believe he was at the dentist's office some time before his accident. He never did recover. The problem cost the community a fine fire chief and his family a fine father and husband. I must conclude that he was totally unaware that he had MVP. Otherwise, his condition would have been known by his doctor. I doubt he would have developed the infection if he and the good doctor were forearmed. The guy always ran around like a kid prior to his accident. Does this kind of thing happen very often? You'd think a fire chief who'd been through quite a bit of paramedic training (he had) would know enough to look into something abnormal. He must just not have had any clue there was any- thing even close to wrong. Reagrds, Tom Frye