IF I COULD GET $1 PER BEAT I'D BE RICH

Ok... so Jake and I had a rather interesting 'date' together yesterday. We decided to go spend the entire afternoon and night at the ER... 11 hours to be exact!
On Sunday night I started developing some breathing trouble, which by Monday had gotten worse, so we decided that we would go see our GP and have me checked out... well, by the time they got our appointment time right, got me registered and had me sign all the paper work that needed to be signed, I was already hyperventilating, because I couldn't get a good enough breath... so, doc sent us off to the ER.

Now the ER has a system... you register at the front desk, and then you go an sit in the PURPLE chairs... when they call your name, you go to triage where they brand you (name tag on your wrist), check to see if you are still alive, color code you for order of importance and send you to the ORANGE chairs...well, everyone likes the orange chairs, cos we all seemed to stay there for a VERY LONG time... 4.5 hours later, a little green dude came around with a portable machine to check vitals... this is where all the fun stuff began. He hooked me up to his machine, and looks at the machine, then looks at me, and says. "Can you please stand up"... so I stood up, got a little woozy, but stayed on my feet, and then the little green dude disappeared, only to arrive back with a wheel chair... turns out it was for me... LOL...my resting heart rate despite having been doing nothing for hours, was 170... so I was wheeled away in this over sized wheel chair, and hooked up to my first IV and sucked dry of another gazillion tubes of my blood. Then they did an EKG (to check my heart rythyms)... I was covered in little stickers, all hooked up to cables, that were hooked up to machines...

Eventually, they wheeled me into an ER room, and hooked me up to more things... a heart monitor, a BP machine and some finger clip thingy got to do with my pulse... I looked like a science project all covered in stickers connected to wires. I was just all wired up...all I was missing was the flashing lights and I could be a Chrismas tree. LOL
And then we waited... for the first IV bag to finish...



FINDING SOME HUMOR IN OUR VERY LONG DAY...



When the IV fluid was finally finished, they weren't yet happy with my heart rate cos they said it was still too high, despite having already dropped quite drastically from the initial 170, so they sent me for further tests... the first was an ultrasound of the veins in both my legs, so they could check for any blood clots. Then I had an Echo (ultrasound of your heart), and they hooked me up to a second IV, for more hydration.

Finally when the second IV was empty, my heart rate was down to a little over 100, which they said was still too high, but better...so they sent me off to the labor and delivery area so that baby could be checked up on... at first, I got nervous, cos they couldn't hear our 'Bean' on the doppler, but they brought in the ultrasound machine and there was Bean, looking less than impressed to be woken up at 12:30am. The little thing was squirming around, like he/she was trying to hide, and had both arms up, covering his/her face... even the doctor was having a giggle at this little monkey. Jake and I were laughing, and just picturing little 'Bean', shouting out, "Hey, leave me alone. Freak, can't a kid get some sleep in here...?" LOL

Finally, at 1:00am, I was discharged on the diagnosis of bad dehydration that made my heart beat too fast, so I couldn't breath properly... so although my heart rate was a little high still, they sent me home. WHAT A RELIEF....

By this time, Jake and I were STARVING... we hadn't eaten all day, so we made a much needed stop at a 24hr McDonald's drive through for some gourmet budget burgers...it wouldn't be a date if there wasn't any dinner. LOL. :D

Well, today we are tired, it was a long couple days, but sleep will come soon. Unfortunately, I got a call from our doctor this morning, to say that the cardiologist report, from the Echo that was done came back and I need to go back to the cardiologist next week, because they detected a small pericardial effusion, which pretty much means there is some fluid in my pericardial cavity that shouldn't be there. So the cardiologist update will come next week... but we do have the assurance that it is very likely nothing serious as a pericardial effusion can be caused by something as simple as a virus... so it's not likely anything threatening or more serious.

Jake has decided that after our day in the ER, he thinks he might need to stop watching all the 'House' episodes for a while. LOL

Our life just never fails to be interesting... one thing is for sure... we are definitely not BORING.. LOL... :D