3/11/10
This morning started at 5:30 when I woke up hearing Lily, got her calmed down, got back into bed and notice Oscar (husband) propped up in bed looking weird. When I asked him what was wrong he said his chest hurt and was having trouble breathing. When I gave him that 'look' he said he was fine, and stop over reacting. Since I was so tired I fell back asleep but woke up again soon after to hear him in the bathtub. I got up got O-Town (Lil Oscar) ready for school and came back in to 'talk' to him. He said the pain wasn't as bad and he was breathing easier. I told him he should get it checked out, he said he was fine and stop worring, I told him he was pushing himself too much, he said he's been doing it for a long time now, i said I want you in one piece, and he said I know (but I'm pretty sure he rolled his eyes)
I kept getting distracted with the boys because I had to get them ready for school. Oscar let the house looking better, but I still had my doubts. I told myself once I had the boys off to school I was going to call our friend Kip and have him talk to Oscar. Sometimes that hunk of a husband of mine is stubborn and doesn't listen to me but will his 'guy' friends, especially the ones in the medical field. I soon found out about an hour later that Oscar called Kip on his way to work and he told him to go to the hospital. THANK YOU KIP!!
I got a text message from Oscar saying "Yo, all is good but I went to the docs to get checked. All initial tests are great. But I am getting admitted for some followup tests in st lukes downtown." I was fine until I read the word 'admitted'! I called Oscar and of course I 'Flipped Out'!! He said, that's why I don't like telling you things, i said who cares you tell me anyway - let me flip out and then I'll get my head wrapped around it. So he said they had to test his blood every 4 hours for the next 8 hours to check for an enzyme that was present in heart attack patients. After I got off the phone with him I immediatley called Kip to get the 'real' story. Amazingly Kip told me what Oscar did he didn't leave anything out. So I felt better knowing Kip was at the hospital with Oscar but I was still flying around my house trying to get me, Lily, and Mason ready to go to the hospital, NO WAY was I staying home to find out how things were going.
I was doing okay until I talked to my mom and then the water works started flooding! She asked if she needed to come up, but I said no because he seemed to be fine and I would call her later. Well come to find out she left work and was heading up to Boise anyway. Once she got here I realized yes I did need her very much. I LOVE my mom! Thank you!
When I finally got to the hospital Oscar told me about when he first got there. He had a hard time walking from the parking lot to the emergency room, he was very winded. When he told the front desk people he was having chest pain they immediately took him back to a room. He said within 2 minutes there were 10 people in that small room hooking him up to machines and checking all sorts of stuff. They DON'T mess around! He said that they gave him nitrogliceren under his tongue and within 30 seconds the pain was GONE! He had a small allergic reaction to the adhesive they put on him (he started swelling up), so they had to change them to the kid ones and he was fine. All the firsts test they did and the first blood draw all came back negative for heart attack, but they were going to keep him there to check the rest of the day.
Kip was awesome and explained things to us and even went and got lunch for us. THANK YOU! Jessica his sweet wife and very good friend was up at the hospital visiting her brother who just had a baby and came to visit. She took Mason home with her, he was getting a bit restless there anyway, THANK YOU! I kept Lily because I knew my mom was coming and she was going to get her for me.
It turned out to be a long day, but comforting in a way because every blood test came back negative. The doctor came in at the end of the day and said that all the tests results were good news. But!! That doesn't mean your heart is healthy, and it doesn't mean your heart is bad, but we had an appointment to see a cardiologist the next morning for further tests.
The next morning we went to see the cardiologist and Oscar was going to do a stress test. A stress test is where they put a bunch of monitors on your chest and back and you run on a treadmill and monitor your heart at the same time. The doctor said he is looking for the electronic something or other when he is running.
Here are some of the pictures of the test....
Resting heart rate....
getting ready to run...
heart rate monitor....
After the test, what they called heart recovery.....
He passed this test too, so the cardiologist said his heart looks good right now, but he still needs to watch his health. He told Oscar not to eat at the fast food restaurants more than 2 times a MONTH not week. I know Oscar does not like this advice, but he needs to follow through with it to stay healthy, and he has been *smile* He said Oscar was doing good with his exercise program and gave him the green light to continue his training. He also said we needed to schedule some time with our primary care physican to figure out what gave him that pain. We were told it could be reflux, gal bladder, panic attack, or an ulsur. We were also told that having an upper GI would comfirm if any of these are the real culprit. My own intuition is it's an ulsur, he has had a lot of worrying going on for the past 2 years now and his mother has them too. We shall see.
I am just so very very THANKFUL that he is with us and is healthy!! I know that our Heavenly Father's hand has been in all of this. We love you very much!
