[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or the better part of three months, Wimberley resident Thomas Pletcher could feel something wasn’t quite right with his body.

Every time he did something in the yard, he would get a peculiar feeling that forced him to rest. Eventually it go so bad, he asked his wife to take him to Seton Medical Center Hays.

“I felt this was something I had to take a look at,” Pletcher said.

A quadruple coronary artery bypass later, Pletcher, a 69-year-old retired Air Force heli...