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Ive been away from FR since late November. I nearly died in a similar story. Symptoms had stopped when we arrived at the ER and after a little while they wanted to send me away because nothing was happening (no, they werent full or busy). It must have just been something minor he said, maybe it will come back later and I should return...

The physician reconsidered because I was insistent that there was something wrong and he decided to send me for a CAT first. The symptoms came back even worse than what sent me in to the ER when they added the dye. I started yelling and had them pull me out and take me back.

Physician began commenting around the time that my beats per minute reached 270 that people werent suppose to be conscious at that point. Somewhere after 280, then 290, he said that people werent suppose to stay alive with that type of arrhythmia either, then he mentioned 300 but didnt say where it topped out. He was too busy then.

After a heart attack, multiple bypasses, and a stroke later
Im at home recovering now. It seems I got lucky(?) in that it was a rather large clot and that a friend from work was visiting and recognized it from our training because they wouldnt have at the hospital until it was too late. It got lodged at the end of the M1 where it bifurcates so the damage was more spread out but to a lesser degree to any one area than if it had gotten further and stuck somewhere that would have been more difficult to get out. It seems that it was in the heart when everything got started to begin with not as subsequent to the rest of the procedures but I wont bore you with those details.

Seems kinda serious for someone that the physician seemed to think was just being a hypochondriac but I dont have a medical degree so Im probably just over reacting...