The Weekend

On Friday night/Saturday morning (2 am) Rich woke me and told me that his heart was pounding out of his chest and that it was racing. It had wakened him from his sleep and he had used his blood pressure cuff to check it several times and each time it confirmed how he felt. I could see he was worried, and frankly, so was I, and so we headed to the emergency room.

While we were there they put him on a heart monitor, took blood work, gave him an aspirin, called his cardiologist, and continued to monitor him.

About 6 am a hospital internist came down and told us that they were admitting him for observation and for one of the cardiologists to attend to him.

As the day wore on his heart slipped back into normal sinus rhythm just as it has slipped out. What a blessing. The cardiologist told us that once your heart goes into arhythmia (just like it had done in response to the respiratory failure in November) then it is always something that you will have to worry about. However, they have medications to help it maintain its normal rhythm (and he is on them) but the medications that he needs for his lungs are not good friends and so - a little tweaking and he was able to come home from the hospital with admonitions that if this happens again (and it probably will) then we are to do just what we did do and to see his cardiologist in a months' time.

I went to Sacrament Meeting - our choir sang too - it was beautiful. But then I came home and got Rich - he still has a little difficulty getting moving - but it is coming. He had his deacons' quorum to teach and to speak at the Priesthood Preview. Later in the day I went back to the church for choir practice and then we had Bob over for supper. All in all, a very uneventful day!