I got an interesting birthday present this morning. John woke me up a little after 6, telling me that he was having some chest pains. He had already taken four low-dose aspirins. I got him quickly to the ER. His pain was minimal, but constant, with none of the classic stuff (squeezing, crushing, sweating, nausea, etc.). They did an EKG, chest x-ray, blood work (cardiac enzymes), with followup blood work at 4 hours after the onset of the pain (or when it woke him up). All tests were negative, and a minor abnormality on his EKG had been present on an old EKG they got from our family doc’s office. So they let him go home (6:30-10 a.m. in the ER). He is scheduled for a stress test at 7:30 tomorrow morning, and is to be followed up in the doc’s office after that.
He was grumbling about having caused a “false alarm”. And as I promptly told him, I’d rather do 20 false alarms than one real one. The negative results made for the best birthday present as far as I’m concerned.
We went out to dinner with Allan and Tina (thanks SO much for the flowers and for dinner). Bonefish Grille has some terrific food. It’s probably good that it’s across town - we’d probably go more than 1-2 times a year if it were closer.
Thanks so much for all my loved ones for the birthday cards, calls, e-mails, and Facebook wishes. But the best present was John’s negative results at the ER this morning.
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This is the courthouse in Lyons, NY.
1 comment:
Oh dear! Well glad that John is OK. How did the stress test go? Hope you enjoyed your birthday despite all the drama!
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