Mom likes to say this a lot lately. Well we ended up with yet another thing to worry about. Early this morning I woke up to use the bathroom (haven’t been sleeping well lately because it too dang hot for me). Before I had a chance to go back to bed something funny was going on with my heart. Normally you do not feel your own heart beating. It just does. Well I could feel it beating and it was odd. Sort of jumping around. I couldn’t tell myself if it was actually my heart or if it was just a muscle twitch in like my rib or something. Anyway, I was able to go back to sleep and around 8:30 am mom woke me up and asked if I wanted to go to breakfast with her. I didn’t want her to go by herself, so I got up and noticed that the weird heart beating thing was happening again. In general, I felt fine, expect for this strange feeling in my chest. There was no pain or dizzyness or excessive sweating that you would associate with a heart attack and I figured if it had been going on for some 4 hours then it probably wasn’t going to kill me, but I was still a bit anxious about it.
We decided to go to the ER. I drove there and was thankful that the ER was pretty much empty. Hopefully that meant I could get in there quickly. I was concerned about getting admitted to the hospital though. I really did not want that to happen as that would mean something quite serious. Anyway, in the ER triage, they did an EKG and found that I was in Atrial Fibrillation. The ER tech asked if I had ever been told I had Afib before. I told him that I hadn’t. I went back into the waiting room for all of maybe 2 minutes before they were calling my name to take me to xray and then to a room. By the time a doctor came to look at me he said that my heart rhythm was normal and that my heart sounded healthy. He had blood work drawn and waited for the xray and bloodwork to come back and consulted with a cardiac surgeon. Apparently they felt it was not an urgent issue and sent me home with a prescription for a heart rhythm stabilizer and a referral to a cardiologist.
Tomorrow I will make the appointment with the cardiologist and we will see from there what will happen.
Needless to say, I am worried for the future. Mom needs me and I do not need to have some major health issue going on right now. Hopefully everything turns out to be a routine thing and we can go back to ‘normal’.