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Christmas Blowout Weekend
This Christmas holiday weekend was memorable at my home. Besides all the festivities with friends and family, a 15 hour electricity blackout on the island, Day-after Christmas shopping and eating wonderful leftovers; Sunday night/early Monday at 1am my husband woke from a sound sleep with severe chest pains, shortness of breath and sweating profusely. When the symptoms did not subside…. I called 911. The paramedics arrived, hooked my husband up with electrodes connected to all the heart machines and off to the hospital they sped away. Upon entering the emergency room and receiving nitro, oxygen and hooked up to more heart monitoring machines, hubby was subjected to 5 hours of blood enzyme tests and at 7am the results came in. Hubby did not have a heart attack as they all thought he had. He had severe indigestion from overeating all weekend! His stomach acid raised above his esophagus and burned the tube directly over the heart area. This symptom is also known as “Not knowing how to push the plate away from you” and others have called it “You can’t eat like you did when you were 25 years old anymore”. Since hubby is in his 50’s he has a ‘stress test’ scheduled for Wednesday – lucky him!
Christmas Blowout Weekend
This Christmas holiday weekend was memorable at my home. Besides all the festivities with friends and family, a 15 hour electricity blackout on the island, Day-after Christmas shopping and eating wonderful leftovers; Sunday night/early Monday at 1am my husband woke from a sound sleep with severe chest pains, shortness of breath and sweating profusely. When the symptoms did not subside…. I called 911. The paramedics arrived, hooked my husband up with electrodes connected to all the heart machines and off to the hospital they sped away. Upon entering the emergency room and receiving nitro, oxygen and hooked up to more heart monitoring machines, hubby was subjected to 5 hours of blood enzyme tests and at 7am the results came in. Hubby did not have a heart attack as they all thought he had. He had severe indigestion from overeating all weekend! His stomach acid raised above his esophagus and burned the tube directly over the heart area. This symptom is also known as “Not knowing how to push the plate away from you” and others have called it “You can’t eat like you did when you were 25 years old anymore”. Since hubby is in his 50’s he has a ‘stress test’ scheduled for Wednesday – lucky him!