A Little Too Much Excitement for Me...

Thursday, Mom's next-door neighbor and dear friend, Dorothy, called to say that Mom had fallen and cut her eyebrow and would probably need stitches. John and I immediately went over to see how Mom was. She had passed out and her glasses had cut her below her right brow. We took her to the hospital, anticipating a few stitches and maybe a cat scan to make sure she had no fractures...but lo and behold...when they took her vital signs in the triage room, her heart rate was 188!! Not good. They immediately took her back and placed her on a monitor, got the doctor in the room and started an IV so they could administer a drug to bring her heart rate down and restore her to a normal sinus rhythm. They were successful. Then she developed another abnormal rhythm. So they gave her another IV med by slow drip to regulate her heart rhythm. They admitted her to the PCU. She spent the night and then on Friday, she had an echocardiagram and a couple stress tests (not exercise induced, but drug induced). The cardialogist said her tests came out fine and that she could be discharged home on the new med to keep her from having these abnormal rhythms again. She is bruised around her eye and her cheek is swollen and bruised. She had 3 stitches to her laceration. But she is glad to be back home and other than feeling pretty tired, she is ok. I told her to lay low for a few days and to get her strength back. She agreed to stay out of trouble.