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A little setback
"Dave Smith" > wrote in message ... >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. |
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