Friday started out like any other day. Alarm Clock. Breakfast. Shower. Coffee. Get to Work. After being at work about an hour my left arm started to tingle. Then is started to go numb with this dull aching pain that would intensify and then disappear. By mid-day my chest was starting to feel some pressure, so I made an appointment with my doctor. Well, I never made it to that appointment. About 1:15 my chest tightened drastically, my heart rate went through the roof and I almost passed out. Yeah. I didn’t play around and called the paramedics. A quick ride to the hospital and I’m on a gurney in the corridor of the emergency room at the hospital. Yeah. I got to be the obligatory “hall patient.” They E.K.G. me. They put me on a heart monitor. They keep tabs on my oxygen. They take chest x-rays. They pull four vials of blood from my body to test. (See above photo for just how much stuff was attached to me.) They found nothing out of the ordinary … nothing that would signal a “cardiac event” anyway. The E.R. Doc sends me home attributing the episode to stress.
So, I went and saw my regular doc yesterday and he’s stumped. Says that it could be several things: angina, gastroesophageal reflux (though that doesn’t explain my left arm going numb), Gall Bladder or stress. Because I’m still have that chest tightness going on. Sometimes it’s worse than others. Sometimes it’s gone completely. So, he’s gonna start ruling each of those out which means more medical tests and such for yours truly. I go in first thing tomorrow to have my cholesterol checked.
This isn’t some plea for sympathy. I am just trying to keep you, my faithful readers, informed. What I really need is Josh Davis here to hold my hand and keep me calm.