Well just damn!
Sorry to hear about this JoJo, and glad to hear that you made it back out ok (relatively so as it sounds), did anyone suggest perhaps stopping and restarting the heart to get things back into rhythm?
Keep us in the loop on this, ok? Get well!
Yes, the stop and restart was brought up in the beginning before any of the tests were run. I had chest x-rays, an ultrasound, and then the “dye test”. That showed no blockages, no need for a stent or balloon (angioplasty) or the mini Roto-Rooter (can’t remember that fancy name). So now I’m on blood thinners (one being warfarin, also known as rat poison), two types of beta blockers to get my heartrate down and the fibrillation to settle. I think one of the beta blockers is a combination pill, with a blood pressure reduction component to it. All those pill names are maddening to try and learn.
And then there’s those glorious pee pills (Lasix). Actually, they’re not too bad now, but during the first two days they had me going constantly for what, two and a half hours?
Hopefully this will get me regulated. They never mentioned a pacemaker or fibrillator. Yet.
I was a salt-oholic. Gotta give most of that up now. Need to cut down on coffee, though they always brought me tea at lunch and supper. I’m on a daily total of 1500 milliliters of liquid. They suggested nicotine patches and I took ‘em, because I was going to ask about them anyway. Don’t have any cravings yet.
When I first went in, the heart rate was in the 170’s.
When asked for a descriptive word of the condition, whether slight or severe, whatever, the doctor said “moderate”.
Only an hour or so before the next rabies shot, oh joy.