low_delta | hospital visit

Cyn wasn't feeling well tonight. She very often gets this weak, dizzy feeling on the way home. Maybe with a heart flutter. It's a "pre-beat." She's had that for a while, but never with this other thing. Then Tuesday night she had this thing where she couldn't breathe. Maybe like asthma. We decided it was some sort of panic attack. So tonight, she got this thing on the way home, but it never went away. She usually feels better after some food, so we decided to wait until after dinner. Didn't go away, so we went to the ER.

They hooked her up to the usual monitors (including the one that goes bing!), and did an EKG. Did blood work and took a chest x-ray. Didn't find anything. The symptoms sound very much like a heart attack or similar, so they gave her nitroglycerin. No effect. So that seems to rule out a heart attack. As usual, they didn't find anything, but the doctor wanted to be certain, so he said they'd try a couple more medicines, keep her overnight for observation, and if she was fine in the morning, they'd make her take a stress test. And there was one condition (don't remember the name, but it sounded like "angina") that it could be, so they'd see if they could find that.

Later, the nurse came in and hooked her up to a nitro IV. Says they're treating her for (somekindof) angina (something about spasms in the heart). This made us nervous, because that's not what the doctor said. But that's what the papers said. So we concluded that the doc was not as informative as he could have been.

Anyway, since she needed to remain under observation, they had to put her in ICU. But they didn't have any spare beds, so they shipped her downtown. *sigh*

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Oh dear! I hope she's all right... don't back down from these doctors, ask them questions, lots of them, make sure you are getting all the information you need. It is not acceptable for doctors to withhold information or be vague, especially when talking in terms of ICU. I'll keep you both in my thoughts.

Oh dear!!! Hang in there Kevin. At least they are really watching over her now. I'm sure that they will find out what is wrong!

Give her my love and hopes for a speedy recovery. She'll be okay, Kevin. She takes good care of herself.

*hugs and loves to both of you*

Thanks for lettiing us know, Kevin. I hope she's way better real soon!

Thanks for the update and good wishes to Cyn, and you!

wow... i hope everything turns out ok!!
*hugs to you both*

Kevin,

Please tell Cyn we love her. She´ll be ok. I know it. She was just here!
It´s hard to believe.

Did the doc say angina pectoris? That´s not a heart attack but could mean she has blockages somewhere in her coronary arteries and her heart isn´t getting enough oxygen at times and that can cause spasms.

Hang in there...

No, he didn't say angina pectoris. But whatever he said, it didn't sound like a very likely event. Just something he wanted to check for.

That´s a relief.

:)

Dev says she´s having her stress test today.

All our good wishes from both Manolo and me.

Thank you.

Hey Kevin .. I'm sure she'll be OK .. hang in there and give her my love!

You, she, and everyone involved are in my thoughts. Whatever it is I hope they figure it out and fix it!

Thank you.

This sounds just like my "episodes" back in Dec. '03 and Jan. '04. In hindsight, I think it was almost completely stress related. They never found anything, either, in my two trips to the ER or my doctor visits thereafter.

I'm hoping for the best. I wish I could hug you. You're both on my mind tonight. Kiss Cindy for me.
{{{{hug}}}}

Thinking of you both - take care.

I know how I'd feel if

nilajean was having similar troubles, and I know how she reacted when I did. It's scary as hell.

Love to the both of you.

Oh gawd. Very very very big hugs and warm thoughts and smooches and everything for both of you! Please give her an extra smooch from me.

~healing~

If nitro didn't work, that is a good sign.. the only thing it works on is heart attacks... so they might be hedging their bets with the nitro drip, just to make SURE it doesn't work, if that makes any sense.

We'll be thinking about you both Kev.

Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Nitro, because it's quick, and that it treats the worst case scenario.

Thinking of you both. Keep us posted when you can.

loads of hugs to both of you.

(((((hugs)))) for cyn and you. and prayers that they find out what this is and send her on her way back to a fully healthy life.

Thank you. We're getting there but it may take some time.

Wow - that sounds scary - I hope they figure things out!! I'm glad you got to the ER to get her taken care of.

((hugs))

scary. i hope she's better this morning! keep us posted, please.

I came over from Devonne's journal, and wanted to send my very best wishes to Cyn, and to all of you.

*Hugs*

Thank you.

I'll be thinking of Cyn, and you, all day today.
Make sure everything's alright, and everyone takes good care of her.
I was wondering about her. I thought I'd gotten her email saying she'd be taking vacation to visit her doctor wrong, and she was really taking the entire day.

I screwed up. I was supposed to call in to work for her, but I forgot.

Funny thing is, I don't think she called her doctor to cancel her appointment. But I think "I'm sorry I missed the appointment, but I was in ICU all night" is a good excuse.

You had a lot on your mind this morning. It's very easy to forget a little thing like calling the work or the doctor's office. I think being in the hospital is a very good excuse for missing an appointment. The doctor shouldn't have made her wait for days in the first place.

I'm sorry... I hope is is ok...

make them let her eat!

I guess they're doing a chemical stress test, and they don't want any food in her in case of a bad reaction. I just hope her foodless condition doesn't skew teh results of the test. One would think it won't, because they wouldn't run it if it did.

sokoloff angina ?

The good news is that now that they have a clue, they can start to narrow down possibilities, and figure out what to do.

My dad used to treat these sorts of things, I'm sure Cyn will be getting great care.

No, not that. The angina wasn't so much a clue as it was the last main possibility that they wanted to check for.

We think it's going to be panic attack, and therefore untreatable.

I hope it's easily treatable and that Cyn recovers fast.

Thinking of you both, and then thinking of you both some more. Intermittently, thinking of you, then her, then both, and praying.

Bless.

Thanks for letting us know, Kevin. Give her a hug from me. Gosh I hope they find out what is making these episodes for her so she can get back to a normal life!