To start this post off this year has been something for me. Back in January of this year I had the flu. It was really at the end of Dec. into January I guess. I passed out here at the house and hubby took me to the Dr. that we had just been to 3 days before. He checked us both and said we didn't have the flu, just had sinus crud he says. Once in hospt. they actually did the test to see IF I indeed had the flu and I did. Primary Dr. had not checked for it. Just said we didn't have it. Since I passed out Dr. said I had to go to E.R. to get checked out. So he took me and I was admitted. I stayed 3-4 days I can't really remember. They did the heart scan score and several other tests to see why I had passed out. Dehydration was the cause my daughter and I think. For someone that goes the whole day with something in her hand drinking I dehydrate at the drop of a hat almost. Just crazy and I think I am FINALLY figuring out WHY! Same primary Dr. has been prescribing me blood pressure pills with fluid pills in them. I know there is a word for that, but I can't think of it right now.
So they wanted to do a stress test in a week when I leave the hospital in January and I wasn't able to do one yet. I was still coughing my head off and very weak and basically had been in bed mostly since I got home. We cancelled the appointment and they rescheduled it for another week out. Still not back up to par I went on to the appointment. STILL coughing my head off. :( We get there and both of us are wearing masks because the flu was STILL going around very bad. We get in there and it is I mean really really hot in this waiting room. When ones coughing that is the very last thing you need is a hot room. As we sat there I was noticing at least every 3rd person was also coughing. I over heard one woman complaining to her husband and telling him lets just go thru the E.R. since it was the hospt. where we were. They had been there for 2 hours and this is the cardio waiting room to this Dr. and she was worried about her husband having a heart attack while sitting there. I asked hubby to go to the desk and see if we could reschedule the appointment and just told them we would get back with them when I could do it. We didn't actually make an appointment.
So the next thing I know they had made me one on their own and never even told me they did so. I get a call the day after with them saying they were sorry I didn't make it to my appointment on blah blah day and I was like huh what appointment? lol So by this time I had decided I wasn't even doing no stress test at all. I was going to work on this and see if I couldn't get my heart scan score better doing something Dr. William Davis talks about in his "Undoctored" book. Thing is now I see it was too late for me to start that the plaque had already started clogging my arteries. Not to late for working on the problem tho.
So the next thing I know they had made me one on their own and never even told me they did so. I get a call the day after with them saying they were sorry I didn't make it to my appointment on blah blah day and I was like huh what appointment? lol So by this time I had decided I wasn't even doing no stress test at all. I was going to work on this and see if I couldn't get my heart scan score better doing something Dr. William Davis talks about in his "Undoctored" book. Thing is now I see it was too late for me to start that the plaque had already started clogging my arteries. Not to late for working on the problem tho.
I wind up back in the hospt. the last of Sept. with symptoms and had to do the chemical stress test due to near passing out 5 times in less than a week. So they did the stress test and then a heart cath and found the lower left quad. of my heart the artery was 80% blocked. They put their stent in and now I am still working at making the plaque better so hopefully I wont have to have another one put in.
Now for the BLESSINGS part...... SMILE God is so good, He helped me through all of that and several times I had to call out to Him for help due to me being scared of the unknown. When they got me to get off my bed onto the table to do the heart cath I was praying. He gave me that peace that passes ALL understanding. I met so many good people in the hospt. So many good RN's and cleaning lady. Ms. Joyce was a hoot. She writes on my board the very 1st day she comes into my room. God loves and I knew what she was going to write next and I told her, and He loves YOU to! She says AMEN yes AMEN! LOVED that lady! She was my sister in Christ! Then I met Rodney a RN my brother also in Christ! He told me he prayed for me before he entered my room. What a blessing to have a RN that prays for his every patient before he enters their room. He came back the next morning to check on me and tell me bye. Such blessings!
More blessings...... A friend of ours came the other day to see us. I was sharing with them I had been looking for me a treadmill for over a year as I shopped the thrift stores and everyone I found had already been sold. So he tells me they will keep a look out for me one. So he goes to a small town close to them looking in a thrift store I don't go to. While in there he sees an elderly lady out in the parking lot close to her car calling for help. She had fallen trying to get in her car I guess. So he can his wife get the wheelchair and go out there to help the little lady get up. That I know had to be a blessing for her!! So while they are talking to the little lady and making sure she was alright another lady walks up that had worked with my friends wife. She asked them had they ever eaten at this place around there and they tell her no. So he says lets go and we'll buy you lunch. So while they're eating lunch he tells her yeah we're just off down this way looking for a treadmill to which she says, you really looking for one? He tells her yes and she says I have one you can have for free. Come to find out her daughter had gotten married and had brought the treadmill there and given it to her. They went to her house and looked at it, plugged it in and it worked. So now my husband is headed over there to get it along with our friend.
I had shared with them that I had been walking but then when it gets hot I just cannot handle the heat to walk. Told them it's so discouraging to get to walking and then have to stop because of these hot humid summers. Things I have read says to walk 3-4 times a week to help the plaque in ones veins so I was like OK I need to get back at it again. It's cooled off now to where one can walk and my daughter and I have been walking. She's losing loads of weight and I am so proud of her. She had to take steroids to get well for like 4 years now almost every month. She has asthma and it was going crazy. Only way she could get well was to take those things and lots more. :(
More blessings...... A friend of ours came the other day to see us. I was sharing with them I had been looking for me a treadmill for over a year as I shopped the thrift stores and everyone I found had already been sold. So he tells me they will keep a look out for me one. So he goes to a small town close to them looking in a thrift store I don't go to. While in there he sees an elderly lady out in the parking lot close to her car calling for help. She had fallen trying to get in her car I guess. So he can his wife get the wheelchair and go out there to help the little lady get up. That I know had to be a blessing for her!! So while they are talking to the little lady and making sure she was alright another lady walks up that had worked with my friends wife. She asked them had they ever eaten at this place around there and they tell her no. So he says lets go and we'll buy you lunch. So while they're eating lunch he tells her yeah we're just off down this way looking for a treadmill to which she says, you really looking for one? He tells her yes and she says I have one you can have for free. Come to find out her daughter had gotten married and had brought the treadmill there and given it to her. They went to her house and looked at it, plugged it in and it worked. So now my husband is headed over there to get it along with our friend.
I had shared with them that I had been walking but then when it gets hot I just cannot handle the heat to walk. Told them it's so discouraging to get to walking and then have to stop because of these hot humid summers. Things I have read says to walk 3-4 times a week to help the plaque in ones veins so I was like OK I need to get back at it again. It's cooled off now to where one can walk and my daughter and I have been walking. She's losing loads of weight and I am so proud of her. She had to take steroids to get well for like 4 years now almost every month. She has asthma and it was going crazy. Only way she could get well was to take those things and lots more. :(
So I am hoping to not get the flu this winter and hoping AND praying no hospitals in my life for next year. Twice in one year is enough. :-)
Blessings,
Rose
