Snakewoman
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I got a phone call from my Mother at lunchtime yesterday, she asked if I could drive her into the doctors. She explained that she'd had some uncomfortable tight feeling in the chest the past couple of days, she didn't think it was anything but after some prodding from a friend of ours who works at the hospital she was able to get an appointment with her doctor (which is lucky since it normally takes two weeks if you want to see your own GP).
The doctor didn't think it was anything too serious, but to be on the safe side she had a nurse do an ECG. After reviewing the results she told my Mother it didn't look good, and that it was telling her my Mother was having a heart attack. :shock: My Mother was taken by ambulance to the hospital, she wasn't in any pain, just a tight feeling in the chest and heavy feeling in the legs and arms.
Once arriving in emergency blood tests were done, as were X-rays among other things. She was given blood thinners, and now the waiting game started. The blood tests take 6-8 hours to come back, and in the mean time it's unclear if this is a heart attack or not. She was admitted to the hospital, had more blood tests done last night, and will be having an angiogram done this morning. We're still unclear on what exactly this is, but the angiogram this morning should tell us what's going on.
We'd had my Mother in the hospital twice earlier this year due to asthma attacks, she only has mild asthma and doesn't get it very often so it was scary to hear her lungs crackling the way they were. She's not having a very good time this year.
I'll post when I know more.
The doctor didn't think it was anything too serious, but to be on the safe side she had a nurse do an ECG. After reviewing the results she told my Mother it didn't look good, and that it was telling her my Mother was having a heart attack. :shock: My Mother was taken by ambulance to the hospital, she wasn't in any pain, just a tight feeling in the chest and heavy feeling in the legs and arms.
Once arriving in emergency blood tests were done, as were X-rays among other things. She was given blood thinners, and now the waiting game started. The blood tests take 6-8 hours to come back, and in the mean time it's unclear if this is a heart attack or not. She was admitted to the hospital, had more blood tests done last night, and will be having an angiogram done this morning. We're still unclear on what exactly this is, but the angiogram this morning should tell us what's going on.
We'd had my Mother in the hospital twice earlier this year due to asthma attacks, she only has mild asthma and doesn't get it very often so it was scary to hear her lungs crackling the way they were. She's not having a very good time this year.
I'll post when I know more.
