Home, Sweet Home
Hi guys! *big wave* It's so nice to be home!
First, I would like to say THANK YOU for all the kind comments and for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers! ♥ ♥ That means so much to me and I adore you all. ♥ Also, I can't wait to get back to my recaps! Hehe.
So, I am home, and I am doing very well. I've actually been feeling well for a while now, but yesterday the doctor wanted me to stay an extra 24 hours under observation, just to be safe. Staying in the hospital was kinda like living in a dorm in which some random dude wakes you at four a.m. to take your blood pressure, and lots of people are interested in what your temperature is! But hey, at least the blood pressure dude's cologne smelled good! :-)
So, what happened was that I woke up on Sunday and noticed not only that my heart was racing, but it was also not beating properly. It wasn't the normal lub-dub rhythm that hearts beat at. You now how we say in fanfiction, "Luke looked at Noah and his heart fluttered"? Well, it was kinda like that, without the hotness of Noah on the other end. :-) My heart literally felt like it was fluttering at a very rapid pace inside my chest. I waited about an hour before I said anything, thinking it would pass, but it didn't. When we got the ER, my heart rate was between 175-180. Normal hearts beat between 80-100 a minute! Crazazy. :-)
So, needless to say, they took me right away and the ER doctor gave me this medicine to help determine what the issue was. Guys, this medicine was WONKY! But in a really cool way. He explained that it would only stay in my system for 10 seconds, and I might have pain in my chest. Well, I didn't have any pain, but what happened was totally weird but in retrospect really cool. You know how you like, work on a project for a week, then on the day it's due, you wake up late and rush to get out of the house only to get to work (or school) and realize that you forgot your whole report?! You get that shock of "OH CRAP!" adrenaline through you. That's what the medicine felt like, except it rippled from the I.V. in my arm, over my head, and then shimmied down my body to my toes, leaving me literally trembling. It was so wonky!
But the ER doctor was super sweet (and the nurse who did my I.V. was awesome), and it turned out to be atrial fibrilation, which just means that the top half of my heart had no steady beat to it. Miraculously, my blood pressure was still fine. So they gave me another type of medicine to help slow the beat and regulate it, and then I was officially admitted.
My two nurses were totally awesome. My night nurse was this totally cute man who did not speak English as a first language. :-) Loved him. And my day nurse was completely cute, too. And my roommate? She was 95 years old! How awesome is that?! Her granddaughters had granddaughters. :-) And she was getting better by the minute (much like I was), so we were good support for each other. She even watched Spongebob with me this morning! LOL.
Anyway, short of the long: there was no cause for this. The doctors looked at my blood samples and everything else, but there wasn't a cause. Which, actually, is not uncommon. Did you know that irregular heartbeats are actually not uncommon either? My doctor said he could pull 1,000 80-year-olds off the street and 10% of them would be experiencing an irregular heartbeat and not even realizing it. So apparently, it isn't as big of a deal as it sounds like it should be. :-) My doctor did not seem worried about it!
And I was totally the youngest person on the floor. :-P Even the housekeeper came in and looked at me and was like, "You're too young to be here!" Haha. I'm so used to it, because I don't look my age. Sometimes I get carded at the movies, no joke!! :-)
Oh, and to add insult to injury? My nurse suggested I take a walk around the floor, to be on my feet and all, so after jerry-rigging my gown so that my arse wasn't hanging out all over the place (haha, aren't you glad I'm sharing this with you? I had underwear on, I swear), I took up her suggestion...only to realize that an ex-boyfriend of mine from high school worked at the desk down the hall! Ack! Luckily, I heard his voice before I saw him (and before he saw me with my bedhead and unshaven legs and hospital gown that was ten-thousand sizes too big), so I quickly turned back and he was none the wiser! Whew. Haha. Do I need to tell you that we didn't have the best breakup and even though we're friends on facebook now, it totally would have humiliated me if he saw me like that? :-P
So, anyway. Enough blathering! I'm home and I feel good, despite the fact that I'm sticky from the heart-monitor pads and the tape from my I.V. totally took an entire patch of my arm hair with it when it came off! :-D
And you guys are awesome! Thank you so much for thinking of me! ♥ *HUGS* to all of you!! So glad to be back!
~G
First, I would like to say THANK YOU for all the kind comments and for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers! ♥ ♥ That means so much to me and I adore you all. ♥ Also, I can't wait to get back to my recaps! Hehe.
So, I am home, and I am doing very well. I've actually been feeling well for a while now, but yesterday the doctor wanted me to stay an extra 24 hours under observation, just to be safe. Staying in the hospital was kinda like living in a dorm in which some random dude wakes you at four a.m. to take your blood pressure, and lots of people are interested in what your temperature is! But hey, at least the blood pressure dude's cologne smelled good! :-)
So, what happened was that I woke up on Sunday and noticed not only that my heart was racing, but it was also not beating properly. It wasn't the normal lub-dub rhythm that hearts beat at. You now how we say in fanfiction, "Luke looked at Noah and his heart fluttered"? Well, it was kinda like that, without the hotness of Noah on the other end. :-) My heart literally felt like it was fluttering at a very rapid pace inside my chest. I waited about an hour before I said anything, thinking it would pass, but it didn't. When we got the ER, my heart rate was between 175-180. Normal hearts beat between 80-100 a minute! Crazazy. :-)
So, needless to say, they took me right away and the ER doctor gave me this medicine to help determine what the issue was. Guys, this medicine was WONKY! But in a really cool way. He explained that it would only stay in my system for 10 seconds, and I might have pain in my chest. Well, I didn't have any pain, but what happened was totally weird but in retrospect really cool. You know how you like, work on a project for a week, then on the day it's due, you wake up late and rush to get out of the house only to get to work (or school) and realize that you forgot your whole report?! You get that shock of "OH CRAP!" adrenaline through you. That's what the medicine felt like, except it rippled from the I.V. in my arm, over my head, and then shimmied down my body to my toes, leaving me literally trembling. It was so wonky!
But the ER doctor was super sweet (and the nurse who did my I.V. was awesome), and it turned out to be atrial fibrilation, which just means that the top half of my heart had no steady beat to it. Miraculously, my blood pressure was still fine. So they gave me another type of medicine to help slow the beat and regulate it, and then I was officially admitted.
My two nurses were totally awesome. My night nurse was this totally cute man who did not speak English as a first language. :-) Loved him. And my day nurse was completely cute, too. And my roommate? She was 95 years old! How awesome is that?! Her granddaughters had granddaughters. :-) And she was getting better by the minute (much like I was), so we were good support for each other. She even watched Spongebob with me this morning! LOL.
Anyway, short of the long: there was no cause for this. The doctors looked at my blood samples and everything else, but there wasn't a cause. Which, actually, is not uncommon. Did you know that irregular heartbeats are actually not uncommon either? My doctor said he could pull 1,000 80-year-olds off the street and 10% of them would be experiencing an irregular heartbeat and not even realizing it. So apparently, it isn't as big of a deal as it sounds like it should be. :-) My doctor did not seem worried about it!
And I was totally the youngest person on the floor. :-P Even the housekeeper came in and looked at me and was like, "You're too young to be here!" Haha. I'm so used to it, because I don't look my age. Sometimes I get carded at the movies, no joke!! :-)
Oh, and to add insult to injury? My nurse suggested I take a walk around the floor, to be on my feet and all, so after jerry-rigging my gown so that my arse wasn't hanging out all over the place (haha, aren't you glad I'm sharing this with you? I had underwear on, I swear), I took up her suggestion...only to realize that an ex-boyfriend of mine from high school worked at the desk down the hall! Ack! Luckily, I heard his voice before I saw him (and before he saw me with my bedhead and unshaven legs and hospital gown that was ten-thousand sizes too big), so I quickly turned back and he was none the wiser! Whew. Haha. Do I need to tell you that we didn't have the best breakup and even though we're friends on facebook now, it totally would have humiliated me if he saw me like that? :-P
So, anyway. Enough blathering! I'm home and I feel good, despite the fact that I'm sticky from the heart-monitor pads and the tape from my I.V. totally took an entire patch of my arm hair with it when it came off! :-D
And you guys are awesome! Thank you so much for thinking of me! ♥ *HUGS* to all of you!! So glad to be back!
~G