Rick Ellis

Salem High School

Class of 1971

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First Name	Rick
Last Name	Ellis
Graduation Year	Class of 1971
Gender	Male
Current Location	Kimberling City, Missouri
Hometown	Salem, Missouri
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	Lets go have fun! Today at Mark Twain National Forest Golden Mo. area. Toby Teeth sleeping Rick Ellis ,Well Wednesday 11-19-2014 I was deer hunting camping in Mark Twain Forrest. I was in a place that the road was kinda hidden it looked like a drive to someones home and makes a quick right just before two rock pillars. About one mile down that road I set camp on small creek. The weather had become very cold 20s and 30s for days cold. I cut firewood and I had walked up the creek I was camped on and got dizzy sweat and dry heaves I thought I had the flue I called Bear and told him I had the flu dry-heaves and I was up the creek I was camped on. Bear went back to cleaning a deer . Then realized I was having a heart attack I had I tried reaching Bear and he was not able to now he was out cleaning a deer. 100 percent blockage now I made it back to my camp and called another friend Rob Beyer but I was in so much pain I could hardly talk. He thought I was at another location where I fish he thought I was in my fish camp near Shell Knob. I called 911. I was all alone extreme pain so bad I thought I was a goner . They found me with my cell phone signal in the woods at camp. My dog Toby Teeth became viscous to who ever got close to me. Rescue workers showed up they ask me if I called out I said yes then they said that none of there phones would work there. Miracle The Doctor told me I should have died heart was 100 percent blocked put in stem Miracle. People have told me I have nine lives or blessed for all the things I have survived for a reason. God is mysterious and good. They took me to the highway and the helicopter was there by the time I got to hospital it had been about 3 hours of unstoppable extreme pain. I use Straight Talk from cell phone service. Cox S. Hospital saved me with hands God was in control with the best Doctors mine was Dr. Stephen Kuehn he put in a stint to my heart from the groin . I have always had confidence Cox has some of the best doctors I got a stint the same day.. The hospital staff are priceless. I was released on Friday afternoon the 21st. Before this I had been chronically ill but did not know. For 38 years I was sick from blood transfusions in 1976 when I lost my left leg with Hepatitis C. In the year 1999 a Doctor told me I had a liver disease and that is another story. When I was a college student I sold blood to blood banks like a lot a people were doing for cash. The Hep C virus had not been discovered yet. So I infected thousands more maybe by the same way I got it and millions more be infected and do not know it now . I took experimental treatment year 2000 for 12 months interferon and rebavirin combination called Reba-tron. 13 years later no sign of Hep C .but I have diabetes now caused from Hep C. I have had a hard physical trade since about 1985 to present 2014. I worked hard self employed and was not afraid to travel with my beautiful wife Sandy on an adventure to California too make enough too live on Table-rock Lake. It took five years too buy and sell real estate in Oxnard CA. Twice While I worked at contract Painting Sandy had a good job at EMC.. We moved to Table Rock lake in 1989 before the real estate Boom in Branson...(read more)