The Glade 4.0

So, you all remember my rant a bit ago about my dad's "mild" heart attack? Well, guess what...

I had to upstage my dad Wednesday morning!!

Got up at my usual time, 7AM, booted up my computer while taking my blood test, was just about to take my morning meds when BAM! Severe pressure on and around my sternum. Took my blood pressure...288/117...took it again about a minute later...284/113! Called hubby, then called 911...swallowed an aspirin with water (D'oh!)...dispatch told me to take another and CHEW it this time!! Dispatch also told me to unlock the door for the paramedics and gather all my meds up for them to see. Had just got dressed real quick and was bringing out my meds when the paramedics arrived. Weeeee...my very first ever ride in an ambulance!!!

Many hours in ER, being monitored, vital signs taken every hour or so, blood tests every 6 hours, several EKGs, finally taken to my room and given some horrible soup and sugarfree jello (Yuck!!). An hour later, moved to a private room upstairs where they could monitor me better, and given a bloodthinner through IV. Nothing by mouth after midnight!

Thursday morning, 10AM, my chariot arrived to move me to another Kaiser hospital for an angiogram. Weeee, my second ever ride in an ambulance...this one was a bit more fun, since I wasn't scared out of my wits or in pain! Arrived at the catheterization lab...more monitors, vitals, and blood tests...prepping for the angiogram...valium and benedryl, weeeee!! Was the strangest sensation feeling the iodine flowing through my arteries! Three hours flat on my back, not supposed to move my right leg or lift my head, being fed tiny bites of a sandwich and small sips of water through a straw (first solid food in two days!!) Since he had forgotten to bring their phone numbers with him, hubby had to run home to call my dad and sister and let them know I was coming home in a few hours.

Angiogram results...no blockages in my arteries!! Left ventricle isn't pumping to full capacity! They did an echo sound (think that's what they called it) and I need to see a cardiologist in 2 weeks for follow up. Several new meds to take daily, nitro to carry with me.....

I feel like this has all been a very, very bad dream and when I wake up, everything will be back to normal!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Glad you're okay and hope that this doesn't recur. However, this

is the wrong order. In future, please do that the other way around.

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Eep. Get better Jasmy, we like having you around.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

That's terrible! My prayers will be with you for a complete recovery.

Get better *huggles*

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Wow that sounds like a rough time. So glad you are ok! And ditto what Shuyung and Micheal said. *hugs*
Here's to a speedy recovery and it never ever happening again.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

Jasmy, I feel I relate to you more than anyone else on the board based on age, likes/dislikes, habits, feelings and attitudes. Please take care of yourself so I know someone else can relate to what I post. I hope you get everything under control soon.

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Gorse

I wish you all the best, and may the Lord watch over you

Good luck Jasmy!

Good luck, glad you're OK, and remember! not everything is a competition!

LOL Farsky!!

Thank you everyone for your prayers and kind thoughts! Like I said, this is like a very bad dream. One day I'm fine, the next I'm hooked up to all kinds of machines!

shuyung: I know it was the wrong order, but I was in a panic state. It's a good thing I did call my hubby first though. I was having trouble getting the call out on the house phone and my cell phone! his call got to 911 before mine did!

I am almost glad that I was diagnosed with diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol a couple years ago! I'd changed my diet and started taking much better care of myself, as I chronicled on the last iteration of the Glade! This heart attack could have been a lot worse than it was!

Again, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers! /HUGS!!!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

I am glad you are here to talk about it Jas...

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Raell Kromwell

Glad things turned out as well as they did. Be well.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Glad you're ok. *ugh*

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Yeah, sad to hear you had to go through it, glad to hear you made it through to come back and spend some more quality time with us here. Best wishes.

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This cold and dark tormented hell
Is all I`ll ever know
So when you get to heaven
May the devil be the judge

"echo sound"= echocardiogram, an ultrasound video of your heart. Probably evaluating your left ventricle physiology and function. I put that order in all the time here at work. Glad to hear you're alright!

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Women are from Hoboken, men are from Trenton. ~ Jimmy Kimmel

Yes Colphax! That's what they called it! I was still under the influence of the valium, and wasn't quite sure of the terminology. Also, that same "under the influence" caused me to not remember all of the orders...good thing hubby was there to get the info! I have to see the cardiologist next week, THEN follow-up in 2 to 3 weeks.

This is hard! Nurse Ratchet (my hubby) won't let me do anything! However, I'm finding that laughter really is the best medicine!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Send him over to the drive-in on San Carlos to get Falafels, then head for the hills.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Without the falafels??? Heck no!!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Glad you're ok Jas.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Necropost for an update....

Saw the cardiologist this morning. He confirmed what they told me after my angiogram, that I have "broken heart syndrome" or tacotsubo cardiomyopathy. He says that it should clear up and my heart be back to normal in a month or two.

Twenty years ago this syndrome would have me on complete bedrest! Nowadays, the doctors say to get out there and exercise!! Hmmmm...I'm not sure which one is worse!!

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Glad it's not anything lifethreatening Jasmy =)

Whoa! Sorry I missed this the first time around. Glad to hear you're doing well.


Mmm, tacos.

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This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

LOL Foamy! When my hubby was telling me what they had said, he actually called it super taco

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"Said I never had much use for one, never said I didn't know how to use one!"~ Matthew Quigley

"nothing like a little meow in bed at night" ~ Bruskey

"I gotta float my stick same as you" Hondo Lane

"Fill your hand you son of a *****!"

Taco-Tsubo? Sounds like a taco ninja!



Glad you are ok Jas!~Thanks for the update

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth