Sudden
Hospital Visit ©
By Michael
Casey
Well my
heart rehab is/was going well. But yesterday I ended up in hospital. Until I
started screaming in pain. It was to the left of my chest, past my nipple by a
few inches. After a few screams spaced out in time I dialled 999, or 911 as you
call it in USA. I was told to use the under the tongue spray, I must have
sprayed twice so I collapsed on the floor. It lowers your blood pressure so
much.
Anyway as I've just had the Triple Heart Bypass I was taken in. I had
bloods and an Xray. I also screamed a lot in casualty. They gave me pain
killers twice while I was there for 3 hours or so. MY HEART IS FINE. They did a
couple of ecgs as well. As you know I have Arthritis or Arthur as I call it
since 2013, it just appeared and mugged me. The doctor had a look at me but I
had stopped screaming by then. Then "luckily" I screamed while he was
stood beside me.
The result
It’s all
down to Muscular skeletal pain. So it was a relief it was not my heart. I may
have stretched too far and triggered it all, you have to watch yourself if you
have a heart bypass. So finally after my Xray and my bloods were looked at I
was allowed home WITH super strength pain killers.
The irony was that during
the day I had not needed the regular post operation paracetamol, in fact I was
pleased with myself. So I am wondering did I trigger it. Though this past month
I have had random pain, a stab and then it disappears. But last night maybe 20
such stabs. It really does make you scream, and scream JESUS, God, or whatever
else you may believe in.
I must thank my sister for her support and taxi
service. I had told my wife to stay home with our young daughters, seeing dad
collapse and holding his hand while the ambulance arrived was enough for the
night, so I thought it was better for my 3 girls to stay together.
In the morning
my small daughter said she had a dream. I was in hospital and the nurse said I
was going to die, then an Angel came down and breathed on me.
Well I'm
back home, and this morning I had a letter, an appointment from the Royal
Orthopaedic Hospital for my
back/arthritis problem. Today is Ash Wednesday, we remember that we are dust
and to dust we will return. This I know only too well, I hope I can use my
extra time to have a happy family life, maybe I'll write 8 more books. Pain I
know all about, if I can make people smile and laugh with my stories then I'll
have used my time on this earth well, before I return to dust.
snap is family in Malta, April 2013
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