# There's a reason it's called Good Friday... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-reason-its-called-good-friday/442449 "2008-03-23T17:28:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-reason-its-called-good-friday/442449/1 "2008-03-23T17:28:08Z")
Way back in December, I ate some bad chicken and promply spent the next 24 hours in the bathroom, and the next 24 hours in a state of more-or-less constant dizziness. The dizziness was getting to me, so I broke down and saw a doctor for the first time in quite a few years. Well, the doc tells me I have high blood pressure (170/100), and prescribes some meds. She then asked me when my last physical was – IIRC, it was in 1981. Over the intervening years, I’d gone to urgent care for minor issues, but never had a regular doctor, as I’ve always been quite healthy. So we schedule a full exam for January. During that exam, the doctor picked up a heart murmur. Since my mom’s family has a long history of heart disease, she refers me to a cardiologist. The cardiologist recommends ultrasound & a stress test, again based solely on family history – there’s no real evidence of anything wrong at this point. The stress test showed a possible blockage – however, the results were inconclusive, as the diaphragm sometimes casts a shadow on the scans that looks like a blockage. So the cardiologist recommends cardiac catheterization, which was performed on Good Friday. The cath revealed a 90% blockage of the LAD artery, which was treated with angioplasty and a stent. I got out of hospital last night, and expect to return to work on Tuesday. Chances are pretty good that if I hadn’t gotten food poisoning back in December, we wouldn’t have caught this blockage until I had a heart attack. So it turned out to be a very Good Friday in spite of having to spend the day in the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-reason-its-called-good-friday/442449/2 "2008-03-23T17:30:20Z")
That’s why I hate going to doctors. They are always delivering bad news and expecting me to do something about it. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-reason-its-called-good-friday/442449/3 "2008-03-23T23:49:13Z")
Well, hopefully you remember what good going for a regular checkup can do for you, just like Christians remember what good Jesus dying on the cross did for them 😉 My uncle had a valve repaired on Friday, and he made the joke that he died on Good Friday just like Jesus (they stopped his heart momentarily). I told him he’s much more proficient than Jesus as it only took him a few minutes to come back to life as opposed to a few days. heh ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-reason-its-called-good-friday/442449/4 "2008-03-23T23:52:05Z")
[QUOTE=ZipperJJ] My uncle had a valve repaired on Friday, and he made the joke that he died on Good Friday just like Jesus (they stopped his heart momentarily). I told him he’s much more proficient than Jesus as it only took him a few minutes to come back to life as opposed to a few days. heh [/QUOTE] Well, it looks like _somebody_ just got his ticket to Hell punched! 😃 Ok, that was funny. **3waygeek** glad everything’s ok. I’ll be keepin’ you in my thoughts and prayers. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/theres-a-reason-its-called-good-friday/442449/5 "2008-03-24T02:10:05Z")
My father, in 1983, had a heart attack on Holy Saturday. On Easter Sunday they had to revive him, a code blue. He’s fine now, but said if he’d died he couldn’t think of a better day to go. **3waygeek** , I’m glad you are OK! Thank God,(literally) for modern medicine. That’s why we still have you as a poster, and I have a father. But now you are in the clutches of the doctors, and they will probably insist you start coming in for regular checkups!