Mortality Check

Last night, my DH and I were in bed talking, and he said, "I've been having chest pains." After a brief discussion I determined that it had started 30 minutes before, and had been quite painful but was now only mildly so. It was not hard to persuade him to go to the ER.

They triaged him within about 5 minutes, got him in a bed in the ER 15 minutes later, and let us know very quickly that he would almost surely be admitted. Within another hour or so we were told that he had probably not had a heart attack, but because of the many risk factors present, (age, weight, family history) that he had to stay.

He is still in the hospital. He will have a stress test in the morning, and if all is well he will be released shortly after. If not...well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. He feels fine, except for a headache induced by the nitroglycerine patch.

It has been a very difficult 24 hours and I'm really tired. He is under orders not even to think about dying.

I love that man so much. I have no idea how I would get along without him.