So last night was a bit out of my routine! I started having these really intense chest pains! Felt like my whole chest was having a charlie-horse cramp! ...and because I'm prone to panic disorder, I thought I was dying. But I soldiered on until about midnight, when I figure I might go to the ER and get checked out to make sure my heart wasn't trying to stop or anything like that!
We went to.... I don't remember the name! St. Francis perhaps? It's a really nice hospital around here (as far as hospitals go! As far as I'm concerned, hospitals are places of dread, that I try to avoid to the maximum!), and for some miracle, the emergency room was almost empty, only one lady sitting there waiting, but I discovered something interesting about emergency rooms: Come in saying "chest pain", and they take you in
immediately!
They hooked me up to a dozen machines that go 'ping!', and drew a few liters of blood out of me, because... bloodletting I guess? I dunno. Medicine is scary.
Thankfully there was absolutely nothing wrong with my heart. Or lungs. Or anything in that general area. The blood test showed my potassium was low, and while that is known to cause leg cramps, they figured the chest is full of muscles too and those were the things that decided to cramp up on me instead of my legs.
So yeah. No heart attack for me! ...at least until I get the hospital bill. Pretty sure it will be something like... $2000 or $5000... That's gonna be a matter for another time. Right now I'm celebrating being alive! ...uhmm that sounded really corny... Anyway, I love you all!
(they did give me something for stress, and it might be making me a bit sappy. Just a wee bit!
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