Dear Peeps,
I can not thank you enough for all of you prayers and calls and postings of support. They mean alot to me and got me through some rough times in the hospital.
Before I forget. I have to say that I love nurses that are 40 something and older. I was in two different hospitals and umpteen different rooms going between regular rooms and cardiac rooms. One of my favorite nurses was in the cardiac room. She is from Ireland, 40 something and effeciency is her middle name. She tolerates the young interns well although she does look like she wants to pull their little legs out from under them and say, "dude! you're geting a dell!". I told her one evening that I was hot and I asked her if she could put the fan on for me. and she said, "Of course your hot, your 40 and your female and your hormonal...here ya go!"
Yep, surgery went off without a hitch. I started getting the racing heart on Tuesday...I think. Had it since I was 10 years old and the cardioligists could never come up with anything. I have always been able to control it (as in stop it) by holding my nose and popping my ears. Now, Jiff is going to have to chime in here with the medical details but apparently what I do is what the betta blockers do and there is some fancy name for it. This provided some great entertainment for the young nurses and the interns. My heart would be racing at 188 pbm and they would say.....with a glint in their eye...could you do that thing? ok, sure. Hold the nose, breathe deep pop the ears. BANG 188 holds, drops to 168 boom 86 or so.
But then my blood pressure started dropping, I started getting more tired and having less control over the damn things. I could tell by the things that the interns were telling me that my cardiologist was just to freackin happy to have me a camptive ...after all he and his dad before him have waited 34 YEARS for this to happen.
My surgeon is like...what the frig? and oh yea...can you do that nose thing again? I'll give you a shower pass.
At some point the tried to flat line me with some sort of injection that banged me back from 190 to 60 in less then a second. I told them they were not going to do that again.
So, I need to shorten this. I'll submit this and do a part two right away.
peach