On Sunday, August 23, 2020 at 2:43:24 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> I have been stuck in the hospital for a few days and hope to get out
> tomorrow. I had contacted doctor because I was having some issues, but
> he is not seeing patients. He referred me to a cardiologist and sent me
> for blood work and EKG.
>
> When they did the EKG they would not let me drive him. My pulse was 186.
> I went to the ER and the held me there until there was a room in the
> cardiac unit. They worked to bring down the heart rate but when it
> refuse to cooperate they opted for cardiac inversion. I first had to go
> through an eosophical cardio echogram and that meant fasting.
>
> Not a pleasant procedure to get that down, but I was frozen and well
> sedated. once they determined there was no risk of clots they pulled out
> the scope, knocked me out with with the crdiologist clled his Michael
> Jackson drug. The idea was to shock my heart stop it and then another
> shock to restart it at a normal rhythm. They tried three times....
> so...another day of intervenous drugs and now I am on pills and plan o
> be home tomorrow.
>
> It looks like I will have to learn to live with congestive heart failure.
>
Oh, Dave, I am sorry to read this!! Hopefully, they will send you home with
some good medications to help combat this problem. Stay safe, do what the
doctor says, and keep us informed.