Saturday Night Fun-Not!!

 

I'd been having weird pains in my collarbone and jaw in the early evening.  About 10pm things kind of sky rocketed.  I couldn't get a deep breath, my upper chest hurt. Garry phoned 911 and within minutes I had 3 firefighters and 2 paramedics in my bedroom firing questions at me and hooking me up to all kinds of monitors. Next thing I'm on a stretcher and into the ambulance. Nearest hospital is 5 minutes away so that was good. Brought into emergency right away, hooked up to all kinds of machines, getting poked many times-had to try 5 different sites to finally get a vein!! Blood pressure was 196 over 86!! They were thinking I was either having a heart attack or had an embolism. Had xrays, ECG, tons of blood taken. Had to wait for the results and everything was fine-normal.  Had to have the bloodwork done again because sometimes blood clots show up later. Had that done and then we waited for the results.  Had nitroglycerine a couple of times and that really helped with the breathing. Finally they had all the results.  The doctor said he really didn't now what was wrong but as women present differently from men when they are having a heart attack he was concerned about some of my symptoms so he wanted me to go for a cardiac assessment. We got to go home at 3:30am.  Didn't have a very good sleep as I was still having some pain. Finally got to sleep around 6am and then slept until 10:30.  Did very little on Sunday, slept some more in the afternoon.  I feel much better today and have no pain. The cardiac assessment place phoned this morning and I have an appointment on the 27th. 

So that was more than enough excitement for one weekend!!!!