Thanks SO much to all of you that have written with good wishes for a speedy recovery. In answer to the inquires about the nature of the problem…long story short.
Because of an irregular heartbeat my doctor ordered an echo cardiogram and discovered I had a narrowing of my aortic valve and had scheduled an angio and heart cath for the following week.
Because we live an hour from the hospital the doctors couldn’t catch the arrhythmia for diagnosis because it would convert to a normal rhythm before we got there. So once again we were on the way to Urgent Care in the evening and once the again the erratic beat converted. I was tired and trying to get Rick to just go back home but he wouldn’t do it.
After we arrived they did and EKG… told me I didn’t belong in Urgent Care, practically threw me into a wheel chair, and raced me over to ER.
In ER they swooped down on me and started connecting me to a heart monitor with nurses on either side of me starting an IV in each arm. Seems I was in a very dangerous rhythm.
I don’t remember much after that….An ambulance ride to a cardiac center in Fontana for a heart cath…a middle of the night ambulance ride into a cardiac center in LA for immediate surgery…replacement of the aortic valve. It’s all pretty much of a blur.
They discharged me on May 12 and in the middle of that first night I became cold, clammy and confused and Rick called 911….a ambulance ride to the local hospital…5 hours to stabilize me and then yet another ambulance ride. (I’ve had enough ‘high drama’ to last me the rest of my days.) Two more days in the Riverside hospital followed.
Note to the ladies…having your bedroom full of good looking firemen is not as much fun as you might imagine! (grin)
It turned out I had been quickly slipping into a diabetic coma. As my diabetes has always been rock stable Rick didn’t recognize it and I was too confused to do so. If he hadn’t called 911 and he had allowed me to fall ‘asleep’ again I would never have seen the dawn.
Now is the guy a hero or what? He apparently has taken up a new hobby of making decisions that save my life! (smile)
I’m getting on with healing now. Thank you for all the sweet notes and most of all for the prayers.
Love to you all….Judy