Was it a stroke? Or not?
I spent several hours the day before Mother’s day in the E.R. My husband had woke up with half his side feeling numb. By the time he got a return phone call from his dr, went to the care center who referred him to the E.R. , most of the day was gone. I kept myself calm by not accepting or thinking about it. Like it wasn’t real. They gave him an EKG, took blood and even xrayed his head in this big scary machine. They wanted to keep him overnight and he refused. So we started him on an aspirin a day, have papers for him to take to his dr., and signed a paper about it being against the dr’s orders.
STILL I can’t deal with it. They said his heartbeat was slow, they said I should be worried “a little” and it could be something like MS, a stroke, a mini stroke, a precurser to a stroke, something called a TIA.
He is my life. I don’t know what to do. What if they decide it was one? What does that mean? What do we do?
May 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Strange that you wrote this…just today, I read this young girls MySpace story of how she pretty much saw her father die of a heart attack. She heard her dad wheezing in his bedroom and immediately called 911. Paramedics came too late. Her story almost made me cry. The title of her story was “Daddy, I’m so sorry.” She was sorry she wasn’t a better daughter. She was sorry that she didn’t come home earlier that night to spend more time with him. She was sorry that she didn’t wake up earlier that morning because an extra 5 minutes might have saved his life.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Well, he had his MRI so now we wait. I am nervous. The doctor doesn’t know what could be wrong. It brought home to me that death isn’t the only thing to fear. What if I had to take care of him? What would we do financially?