So work slowed down and I was cruising along at a normal pace for a week or so, Thanksgiving and Black Friday came and went with hardly any activity (I stirred enough to visit mom for a few hours), and then Saturday I spent 1/2 the day in an intro wire-wrapping class and the other 1/2 painting pottery for xmas gifts. Sunday Pam and I took the kids to IKEA (we both needed some storage items and a few xmas gift things).
I'd been eating well, but I knew I was dehydrated (can't seem to stay on top of it with the weather and the dryness of the house combined) and I was just tired all the time--figured it was from doing nothing for a couple of days.
Monday I went to work. Tired. Dehydrated. Guzzling Gatorade and water didn't help. Monday night I did a load of laundry and carried it all of 30 feet from the car to the house and up one flight of stairs. Stopped to talk to my neighbor Meg and couldn't catch my breath from just the stairs.
Tuesday morning I had some dizziness and obvious arrythmia and by 9am completely ignored a very credible sign that I was having a heart attack. The vice on the left arm. It's like that pressure-pain you get after the pins and needles when some appendage is recovering from being asleep. But there's more pressure. It hurts. Had this happened to anyone else, I would've smacked them on the head and said "Get Thee to a hospital, NOW!" Guess that's the funny thing about having stress-induced arrythmia throughout my life--one can get a little jaded about what is passing and what is not.
I slept most of the day. Because I was too exhausted to do anything else.
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Wednesday I was feeling better, but still having trouble--called in again and went to the doctors to have my blood pressure checked. 114/60-something and 72 bpm--normal. EKG and 24-hr EKG ordered (no problems while wearing it, of course), blood tests for thyroid, anemia, other stuff. Ordered to stay home (out of the car) until Friday. If the tests all come back normal, it's back to the neurologist. Again.
Today I'm better, I'm at work. My chest still twinges, was practically humming like I imagine is similar to what people describe as caffeine jitters, but no obvious arrythmia that I can feel. No thumping. No dizziness. Still winded with a flight of stairs, though. Everyone tells me I look so tired. I AM tired . . . my chest hurts and I just want to take a nap . . .
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