No pictures to post...my sister wouldn't let me take one! Of course, I only had my camera on my cell phone and she wasn't at her best!
This morning Don and I were supposed to go to Don's doctors appointment and then spend the day with his dad since it was his birthday. After that, we were going to have dinner with Don's dad, sister, brother-in-law, etc.. Tomorrow morning we were going to be heading out and heading east, but our plans changed...pretty quickly at that! It all started with the doorbell at o'dark thirty! We are staying at my sister and brother-in-laws house in thier yard where we've been for a few weeks. My niece and her family (2 kids, husband, 3 cats and 1 dog) are here as well. They are in the process of moving from Hawaii to Virginia and are waiting for escrow to close on their new home. So anyhow, the doorbell rings this morning and it's my niece Katrina. She doesn't think it's anything serious and doesn't want me to worry, but her mom was just taken to the hospital in an ambulance with chest pain! Kathy's husband is already at work, so I got dressed and Katrina and I head to the hospital. I think we arrived there about 6:30 a.m. Once we got there we were allowed to go back and there she is...all hooked up and not feeling too well! Guess her pain started about 12:30 a.m. She tried milk, Tums, etc. but nothing was working. She finally went back to work but woke up a little later still in pain. At 4:00 she got up, took her shower and started getting ready for work . Didn't take too long before she decided that maybe that wasn't the best idea and she woke up Katrina and asked her to call the paramedics. A few minutes later the firefighters arrived followed by paramedics! They gave her some nitroglycerin and transported her to the local hopsital. That's where we came in!
They had already taken her basic history and it was a little later when a doctor came in. That's just about when the fun started! The doctor ordered an EKG and while they were giving that, she had some arrythmias (irregular heartbeats). That got them a little excited so they hung a large bottle of nitroglycerin along with her i.v. Her blood pressure had also been very high the entire time we were there. They started giving her different medications to help with the pain and try to stabilize things while they tried to determine what was going on. Later in the day her blood pressure would go very, very low...that's when they stopped the nitroglycerin. They told us that they treated aggressively if they thought there was a chance of a heart attack or stroke so that they would have a handle on things and if it turned out to be something else they would figure it out as time went on. After another EKG they determined that an angiogram would be in order but this hospital wasn't equipped to do it. The cardiologist said there was some change to the front of her heart. Since her "normal" doctor was actually near her work, she was being transferred about 50 miles to another hospital that could do the angiogram. We were told about 1:00 p.m. that everything was in place they were just waiting for the receiving hospital to call them with a "bed"! Katrina, my mom and I finally left the hospital about 8:30 p.m. and headed home. Jon, Kathy's husband was still at the hospital. She was finally transferred about 10:30 p.m. via ambulance!
**Kathy had the angiogram on Thursday morning and released about 3:00 p.m. She's home, tired and a little uncomfortable but thankfully no blockages that required bypass surgery AND no heart attack!
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