Well, that trip to the lab for blood work and EKG turned into 6 day stay
in cardiac ICU. Thank goodness my wife brought my laptop and some
books. Thanks to Covid19, wifi and TV were free,

They tried to get my heart rate back to normal with cardiac inversion on
Saturday. It wa up in the 180s when I first went to the ER. That one
started of with transesophageal cardioechogram...... no fun at all, and
then the inversion. They tried it three times but it didn't work, so
they switched to intravenous medications. When those got my heart rate
down under 100 they opted to try inversion again.


We did that this morning. It worked. I was heavily sedated but not out
completely. I felt the jolt. Within a minute I was alert enough to look
at the monitor and I was beating at 50 bpm. As the sedation cleared it
went up to about 60 and stayed there, and was regular.

I had to be monitored for a couple more hours and it was still steady a
couple hours later. They sent a dietitian to talk to me and then the
cardiologist discharged me.

I have a number of medications I have to take for a while, have to
follow up with my GP in a couple weeks and then the cardiologist in 5 weeks.



FWIW..... my final bill for one night in ER and 5 days in cardiac
ICU...... $0.