"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>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.

Wow. Very sorry.