Heartburn? Try heart attack

Well, yesterday turned out differently than we planned.

Brad wasn’t feeling well for the last couple of days complaining of heartburn. Well, it turns out the heartburn was actually a myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack.

Fortunately, we went to the hospital to get the “heartburn” checked out and learned he had something going on with his heart. All is good. He was admitted and is being monitored. He is stable and relieved to have sought medical attention before it was a crisis.

A cardiologist did an ultrasound and could readily see the damage to Brad’s heart. It’s on the bottom of the left ventricle. There’s a blockage there. Brad will be transported by ambulance to a bigger hospital. The procedure will be done tomorrow morning to further examine the blockages. They’ll put dye through an artery from his hand to identify the blockage(s) and will at the same time correct whatever blockage there is.

If there is more than one blockage, they can’t do it in one session. It will require another.

Brad has no pain any more which is fabulous. The doctors and nurses keep telling us how fortunate it was that we came when we did.

We’ll now be in Spain for as long as required. Needless to say, the remainder of our planned travels have been cancelled.

The moral of the story? If something doesn’t feel right, trust your intuition.Read more