Dag-Nabbit, Swan!

Geeze Louise, Swan! I mean, really. Tom and I are the ones who should be "cardiac-kids".

For those of you who have been living under a rock, Tom and I are the "fluffy" ones who are diabetic, have high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Swan, on the other hand, is tall, slender and has very few health issues. If you were to see the 3 of us enter the emergency room with 1 of us complaining about "tightness of the chest", the hospital staff would NOT look at Swan first. But today we have spent the day at the emergency room. And tonight I am alone at home with the cats while Tom and Swan are spending the night at the emergency room (there are no hospital rooms available in THE ENTIRE DAMNED TOWN FOR A CARDIAC EVENT PATIENT!!!!!) Swan is having stress tests and the like tomorrow and I am in a big ole fuss here at home because I am just in the way at the hospital and have to work 10 hours tomorrow and I have a migraine, to boot. Dammit. Dammit. DAMMIT!

When I left the hospital (the 2nd time), she was resting comfortably. The EKG was normal, first blood gas test was normal, but the tightness was still there so they had applied a nitro patch. Within 2 minutes of application, the tightness was gone. Tom and I came home, gathered more stuff to keep her (and Tom, of course) comfy, and he headed back to her.

We will keep you all posted. When I hear and can get online, I will post updates. I cannot post from work due to firewall issues, but one of us will update the blog. Promise.

T