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had the worst weekend of my life.

purpledaisies's picture

Fri. Morn i got a call from the hospital saying they had dh and he was being prepped for a heart cath. WHAT HUH WHAT :jawdrop:

I get to the hospital and i was sent to almost every floor before i sent to tbe right room. It was awful.

So they wheeled him in and he told me that he started getting bad chest pains and it went down his arms and he lost feeling is his las 2 fingures and the others were tingling. He said that when he got to the hospital they did a blood test and the reason everyone was so concerned and went as fast as they could was b/c his body put out an enzyme that is put out when are having a heart attack but they didnt find any blockages. So at this point they have no idea what happened.

Then i got mad at dh for not calling me when he knew he was going to the er. He drove himself. :jawdrop: i got onto him for that too.

So we were supposed to have the boys too so yuck called to see what time he will get off work. It veries. He told her that he was in the hospital and why. She brought them up there to see him. I was shocked and she didnt come in either. She stayed out in the car. I just couldnt believe it. Dh said she is finally seeing she is not married to him anymore. But if it had been a few years ago she would try to take over and kick me out. Like that would fly with us.

So they kept telling us he would get that night but i had a feeling that wouldn't happen as we still had no answers. The doc didnt come in till about 11pm after all the tests they took that day. Worker were in and out all day long i mean like every 15 mins they were poking him or something.

The doc said it was text book heart attack but that was it other then he is getting a cat scan in the morn. So we were stuck there over night. Ok we will make best of it. So at this point we didnt know if he had heart attack or what. I was so scared. At this point im thinking did he have a heart attack b/c if the doc is saying this is text book for heart attack then what else could it be?

The next day they did the cat scan and the doc said it came back clean. Thank god but what was it then. The doc said he has something that is called angina. Huh? Appeartly it is a condition that you have a muscle spasm around and artery that makes your heart think its having a heart attack.

Then on top of all this dhs sisters got mad at me for not calling them. I called our parents and figured they would call the others. Ok whatever so i texted them that i was sorry but i was busy. Nothing from them nothing at all. Dh said they just wanted to bitch and told his mom the same thing. And that if they were really that concerned they could have called purple she would have been happy to talk to them but nothing not even a text. Just a mess from ex step dad that they were mad at me.

So dh finally got out at 3pm sat. And then i freaking got sick and havent felt good since still not feeling good.

It was along weekend.

So

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StickAFork's picture

I'm glad your DH is ok. My XH had that happen, too. Scary. Weird. (only in my case, I kinda wished it was more serious. LOL.)

purpledaisies's picture

He said he feels stupid thst it was nothing. I told him id rather there be nothing then somerhing and he did nothing.

hereiam's picture

I am glad your husband is ok and he should not feel stupid, it was NOT nothing. It does sound as if he had a heart attack especially if his troponin levels were high. Heart attacks are not always caused by blockages. My husband had a heart attack and had no blockage whatsoever. They determined he has spasming arteries, which if they spasm bad enough can cause an actual heart attack.

purpledaisies's picture

Thats wh a t they said about dh. Ok thanks. I think they just said that b/c they had nothing else for an explaination.

hereiam's picture

Exactly. I should say, heart attacks are not always caused by an OBVIOUS blockage. When an artery spasms enough to block the blood supply, that is a blockage but not one they can see during the heart cath.

They tried to get my husband's arteries to spasm when they did the cath but could not. So, after ruling out a blood clot, and since he had no plaque build up, they settled on the spasming arteries. It is scary stuff. I swear I sleep with one eye open to make sure I can see him breathing!

purpledaisies's picture

Lol i slept in the bed with him at the hospital. Not very well I might add. But i did. The hospital was very nice about everything. But still feel like they were down playig it.