scare

Heart stuff is just plain scary. I don’t know if everyone has this phobia, but with heart disease in my family and my dad’s triple bypass a year ago, I don’t take heart problems lightly. And for the last 2 days I’ve had constant PVCs which has caused me to panic slightly (not helping the issue at all!). While I know that a lot of people live their whole life with PVCs, it’s fairly new to me and it’s never lasted for more than an hour or so. So you can imagine I was getting a little spooked; and being pregnant and hormonal on top of all that… The last 2 nights I’ve hardly slept between stuffy nose and irregular heartbeat and I was getting beyond the point of exhaustion.

Somehow I dragged myself out of bed this morning to take Noodle to swim lessons and then since I was in town, I promptly headed to the ER. I expected to spend half the day there; to all you Americans, please!! You do not want our health care system!!! I have spent 3-4 hours there, and that was just in the waiting room. But today God was looking out for me and I spent a total of maybe 30 minutes from the time I walked in the door until I left, including a 12-lead ECG and a talk with the doctor! What a miracle; and better yet, I’m not dying! Apparently this is not uncommon in pregnancy and my nasty cold just added to the odds. But unfortunately he said I could be headed for bronchitis, so I may not be out of the woods yet. I’m kinda tired of laying low; this cold hit on Sunday and I just wanna be well again! But I’m so thankful things worked out the way they did today…