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Nana's are Beautiful
Well, lucky me just spent the last 24 hrs in the hospital for chest pain.
I had went to bed with sharp pains in my left armpit and down my left arm tuesday night. It went away on it's own, so I didn't worry about it. (I have it periodically) Next morning Wed, I was fine and went off to school.
Came home from school and husband showed me the IRS thing that we don't get to keep our desperately needed tax return. It actually is going back to repay his ex's welfare bill. I'll stop here for now, not really up to getting into it.
The pain hit in the arm again. I went to ly down, hoping it would go away. Seemed to leave. So went to go get food and supplies needed at wallie world and eat at Dakota's.
Supper was first. Walking into the restaurant triggered the horrible left arm pain and chest pains. Not long after sitting at our table it again went away. Ordered the meal. husband, Nichole and baby ate, I just picked.
Went to wallie world. Hit me in the parking lot. Kept telling myself it was stress and kept right on shopping. By the time I gave up I could barely stand. Pain in left armpit and arm unbarable, pain in chest crushing, pain radiated up the sides of my neck and made my head pound.
husband asks me to go to ER. I said no, as once we were in the car it started to be ok again.
Get home, walk across the floor and it's horrible again. I have Nichole take my b/p. 160 over 80. Not great but not horrible either. But I'd been hoping to blame the symptoms on high b/p. (it really wasn't high enough to do that)
So I call easy child because it's not getting better. It's getting worse. She talks me into going to the ER, saying I should at least have the blood enzymes checked to make sure it's not the heart.
Only decent ER is the hospital where easy child works, 40 mins away. husband takes me. I'm pretty ok in the car. Get out to go in and nurse has to run for a chair cuz walking aint happening.
If you ever wanna get immediate care in an ER tell them you have chest pains.
Lord, my room was crowded.
Initial blood enzymes looked ok, EKG was ok, chest xray ok. I wanted to go home. The nitroglycerin was working. (and I had class today) ER doctor argued. husband begged. So I agreed to the admit.
Throughout the night movement triggered the symptoms until the nitro had many hours to work. No sleep of course, cuz you just don't sleep in hospitals. lol At 5 am they came for the stress test. Took about a gallon of blood. Had god knows how many docs taking medication history ect.
Everything came back good. My blood pressure was awfully high on admit (184/ 86) but stress test and everything else came back fine. Just got discharged a couple of hours ago. Cardiologist didn't like letting me go. But I did promise if I have more symptoms I WILL return to the ER and also call her. She explained (as did reg doctor) that those things coming back normal didn't necessarily mean I'm ok. They both seem to think I've probably had a mild heart attack and got to ER before any major damage happened.
Cardiologist wanted to do an angiogram. I don't have a problem with that. I'd just like to end the school quarter if possible first.
Scarey.
But I will go back to ER if necessary.
Just lying there in the bed though, I was having no symptoms. Seemed stupid to be there. (it's probably a week wait for the angiogram anyway) And I only have 2 wks of classes left.
Did get knew scripts for b/p medications, lasix for higher dosages.
So far so good. I haven't really been moving around much. I'll probably be off to bed soon. I'm pretty drained.
Hugs
I had went to bed with sharp pains in my left armpit and down my left arm tuesday night. It went away on it's own, so I didn't worry about it. (I have it periodically) Next morning Wed, I was fine and went off to school.
Came home from school and husband showed me the IRS thing that we don't get to keep our desperately needed tax return. It actually is going back to repay his ex's welfare bill. I'll stop here for now, not really up to getting into it.
The pain hit in the arm again. I went to ly down, hoping it would go away. Seemed to leave. So went to go get food and supplies needed at wallie world and eat at Dakota's.
Supper was first. Walking into the restaurant triggered the horrible left arm pain and chest pains. Not long after sitting at our table it again went away. Ordered the meal. husband, Nichole and baby ate, I just picked.
Went to wallie world. Hit me in the parking lot. Kept telling myself it was stress and kept right on shopping. By the time I gave up I could barely stand. Pain in left armpit and arm unbarable, pain in chest crushing, pain radiated up the sides of my neck and made my head pound.
husband asks me to go to ER. I said no, as once we were in the car it started to be ok again.
Get home, walk across the floor and it's horrible again. I have Nichole take my b/p. 160 over 80. Not great but not horrible either. But I'd been hoping to blame the symptoms on high b/p. (it really wasn't high enough to do that)
So I call easy child because it's not getting better. It's getting worse. She talks me into going to the ER, saying I should at least have the blood enzymes checked to make sure it's not the heart.
Only decent ER is the hospital where easy child works, 40 mins away. husband takes me. I'm pretty ok in the car. Get out to go in and nurse has to run for a chair cuz walking aint happening.
If you ever wanna get immediate care in an ER tell them you have chest pains.
Lord, my room was crowded.
Initial blood enzymes looked ok, EKG was ok, chest xray ok. I wanted to go home. The nitroglycerin was working. (and I had class today) ER doctor argued. husband begged. So I agreed to the admit.
Throughout the night movement triggered the symptoms until the nitro had many hours to work. No sleep of course, cuz you just don't sleep in hospitals. lol At 5 am they came for the stress test. Took about a gallon of blood. Had god knows how many docs taking medication history ect.
Everything came back good. My blood pressure was awfully high on admit (184/ 86) but stress test and everything else came back fine. Just got discharged a couple of hours ago. Cardiologist didn't like letting me go. But I did promise if I have more symptoms I WILL return to the ER and also call her. She explained (as did reg doctor) that those things coming back normal didn't necessarily mean I'm ok. They both seem to think I've probably had a mild heart attack and got to ER before any major damage happened.
Cardiologist wanted to do an angiogram. I don't have a problem with that. I'd just like to end the school quarter if possible first.
Scarey.
But I will go back to ER if necessary.
Just lying there in the bed though, I was having no symptoms. Seemed stupid to be there. (it's probably a week wait for the angiogram anyway) And I only have 2 wks of classes left.
Did get knew scripts for b/p medications, lasix for higher dosages.
So far so good. I haven't really been moving around much. I'll probably be off to bed soon. I'm pretty drained.
Hugs