Mankato Has A Goodwill

And all I wanted to do was see what it was like.  Walked in, grabbed a cart, started to explore and bang someone was inside my chest squeezing the heck out of it.  Hummm I think....nah it's nothing just ignore and shop.  The squeezing radiated out and then down to my stomach and it was then that I got hot...oh so hot.  Deciding that if I was going to pass out I would rather do it in the car than in the Goodwill.  Once in the car I just sat a minute as the pain went into my back.  Damn I think, I really need to pick up that last minute gift for Julia (birthday party was later that day).  Shopko, yes Shopko would be a good place, less people, in and out quickly.  Driving to said store the pain does what?  Why yes it does go to my jaw-left side-where else.  Since I was by the Kwik trip I think perhaps I should just turn in and purchase aspirin...nope reject that thought.  Mebbe I need to go the the ER but should I drive over to StPeter which is less busy and I can get in and out quicker or to ISJ?  Nah better do ISJ because if it is something StPeter will just have to transport me to ISJ anyway.  I know sister in law Kelly is in town discharging Momma Loi from ISJ-call her.  Kel, I say, where are you?  Walmart she says.  Well, says I, you wont friggin believe this but I am driving myself to the ER perhaps I am having a heart attack.  I will get there as soon as I got mom home and settled says she.

Walk into the ER and because of my symptoms the wait time was minimal.  I call David, who doesn't answer.  Call Mary to see if she will go out and get him but she is in Nicollet-Call Chris to see if she will go out and get him-she is working-Call Kelly again and ask her to run out and tell him where I am after she gets momma Loi home (could be an hour).  Keep trying David to no avail.

Ushered into a room and hooked up to machines of all kind.  Given 4 aspirin to chew and later three nitro 15 minutes apart.  By the second nitro the pain is almost gone and what is left is a bit of a burning sensation. 

I continue to call David-no answer.  An hour and a half later (after I find out I am going to be admitted) guess who shows up, why yes my David.  Kelly was finally able to get Loi settled and get out to our place.  She read him the riot act about not having his phone on...I can just hear it...goodness knows he deserved it.  Did he rush right over...nah...gotta put his tools and such away first dontchya know.  Kelly and Mary do rush to the hospital though, but wait, no no ladies not the StPeter hospital!  Why did you think I was in StPeter?  What, I neglected to say which ER I went to?  Perhaps.

David finally arrives just in time for me to go to my room for the night.  Tests are negative for a heart attack but EKG does show abnormalities and perhaps I had an attack at some point in the past.  They decide to release me on Sunday with an appt to see my regular doc, a cardiologist and to have a stress test. 

To make a long story short (HA) stress test shows a healthy heart (nice to know with the heart disease in my pop's family) but let's check the gall bladder (pain of it can mimic a cardiac episode) and if all tests are negative it will be noted as gerd which too mimics cardiac and nitro will take the pain away of it as well.  I haven't gotten the results of the gall bladder ultrasound but I do expect it to be normal.  I am on a acid reflux med and it has already helped the heartburn AND we are slowly changing our diet.

That being said-it was a parody of errors my trip to the ER and makes for a funny story says I.  I mean really, David not answering his phone-I always tell him that I would be dead in a ditch for three days before he would know it.  Well I wasn't dead and I wasn't in a ditch but did I prove my point?  And then there is Kel and Mary looking for me at the incorrect hospital.  And not to be forgotten is my whole thought process during the chest squeezing episode.  Never mind that I was totally pissed that it was nothing and for nothing I missed Julia's birthday party.

It is with a clean bill of health that I say I hope you have enjoyed my damned strange but true story :)