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Marjorie: My symptom was tremendous chest pain before the first angioplasty. I procrastinated until I could no longer walk 2 blocks from my office to Grand Central Station in NYC without resting. I don't think my lips turned blue. I did get short of breath. I am not aware of the slinkies. They gave me a card to carry lest they set off alarms in the airport -- didn't happen. The slinkies are positioned on the tip of the "snake" which is placed in the artery at the groin and snaked to the blockage at the heart. The slinky fits over a balloon which is inflated pushing the slinky into the artery wall. The body within several weeks covers the slinky with the cell wall so it cannot move. Keep me posted. Best of luck. Joe. Marjorie L. Moorefield wrote: > Josè, > What were your symptoms? > Did your lips turn blue? > Where you short of breath? > Are you aware of the slinky? > How do they keep it from moving and > blocking someplace where it doesn't belong? > > -M > > At 01:31 AM 07/26/2000 -0400, you wrote: > >Marjorie: Not one -- two, in the artery at the heart. My second angioplasty > >was required because my artery closed up somewhat right where one of the > >stents > >was positioned.. Jose. > > > >Marjorie L. Moorefield wrote: > > > > > Joe- > > > Let me get this straight---you have a slinky for a heart? > > > just me, > > > Marjorie > > >