Life has been a little crazy lately and I just wanted to tell everyone thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers as I try to get through this craziness.
Here is a recap for anyone that has not heard.
On Wednesday afternoon my heart was racing so fast so I finished up a work and rushed to labor and delivery. I told the nurse that my heart was racing and she started to put the monitors around my stomach to monitor the baby and as she is doing this she told me that I was probably just starting to get high blood pressure but as soon as she put the stethoscope on my chest she sat there for a minute and then went to my wrist to try and get my pulse and then she tried again on my chest and then when she couldn't get a reading she told me very calmly "I will be right back" the next thing I know I have 3 more nurses in my room 2 are from the ICU and one is from the ER. (I told Jer that this was just going to be a sit and be monitored for an hour and I would be released so I told him not to even bother) Well, the nurses decided that I needed to have ice around my neck and face to see if my heart would stop racing but nothing was working by then the nurses had called in 2 doctors and they are going to do an EKG on me. They took my heart reading and by then they were freaking out because my heart rate was 230. So they got a bucket of ice water and told me I needed to dunk my head 3 times for 10 seconds each but still nothing was working. Then at this point I have 3 more doctors in my room and they are yelling at the labor and delivery nurse (who by the way is totally freaked out because this is out of her league) to get a IV asap (this is the part where I start to freak out because there are so many doctors in my room and they are yelling and running around) As soon as the IV is in the ER doctor is telling me what is going to happen while he is starting to put medicine into my IV. He said that my chest would hurt, I might pass out and I would taste metal in my mouth. I had no idea what this meant but while everything is being said I heard a couple of nurses out in the hall talking and asking what was going on and they said "They are going to restart her heart". Holy Crap, I sure wish Jer was here!! Everything happened that the doctor said and my heart slowed down to where it is suppose to be, 100-110 beats per minute not 230. After everyone stopped freaking out they came in and talked to me about what just happened and they told me that they had paged my doctor, called the heart doctor and was getting ready for emergency c-section. Jeremiah finally gets to the hospital and he walks down the hall where my room is and he sees all of the nurses around my room and they were just shocked at what had just happened. He said that he thought one of us had died by the look on the nurses faces. Then I was monitors for the next hour and everything was just fine so they sent me home. I felt fine but I was just exhausted.
On Monday I went to see the heart doctor and he told me they had figured out what was wrong with me. He told me this was not pregnancy related and I need to have heart surgery but that can't happen until after the baby comes. I have SVT which means I have an extra electric vent. I was born with this problem and the reason while it just happens while I am pregnant is because I have so many more hormones and stress on my body. So I will be having heart surgery in July. I just cross my fingers that this doesn't happen again but if it does I have a chart that the heart doctor gave me to give to the emergency room. He said this is my ticket to the front of the line.
4 years ago
