'Twas The Week Before Christmas

'Twas the week before Christmas and all through the house all the creatures were stirring cuz Melissa was in the hospital. :P

So I was working on Monday, the 17th and started getting some chest pain. I kept on working and it started getting worse and my chest started feeling tight in the middle. I had experienced this about a week prior but had recently had a cold and figured it was just muscle strain from coughing so much. Anyway, I ended up going over to the ER to have it checked after talking with my boss and with Ed. The doctor said the EKG and chest x-ray looked fine but he wanted to keep me over night for observation to make sure that the pain wasn't a sign of something further to come. He said that it might be Acid Reflux and gave me a "GI cocktail" to see if it made any difference. It did get better but they had also given me nitro paste and an asprin at the same time so I didn't know which had helped. I stayed all night and no doctor came in the morning. I didn't have a Primary Care doctor at the time because I hadn't needed one since we've been back so they assigned me one. Anywho, evidently there was confusion about who was supposed to see me so I didn't get seen till the end of the business day. The doctor said that all of my cardiac enzymes and EKGs were good but that she still wanted to do a stress test to rule out heart complications. As it turned out, I knew her because our kids are in the same class at school so she said she would release me and trust me to do the stress test on an out-patient basis as long as I did it within the next couple of days. Yay! I felt better Wednesday and most of Thursday but then I started getting aches, fever and chills Thursday night. I wondered if it was all related. Turns out it was not, but was a very yucky stomach virus that took me a good 5 days to get over! Ik! (Probably took it home with me from the hospital!) So I went and had the stress test on Friday in the midst of me feeling all crummy and it was a long day but the results were good in the end! I was relieved to hear that my heart is fine! Now all we need to know is what is causing the chest pain. I am going back to the doctor on Wednesday so I am sure there will be more tests in my future. I am okay with that...just so glad it wasn't my heart...kinda scared me.

I hope all of you are having FABULOUS holidays! My apologies to my extended family who haven't received their Christmas presents yet! Unfortunately I am a "last minute" kind of gal and all of my "last minutes" got used up!

Merry (belated) Christmas and Happy New Year!