Prairie Dog Blog

Well, we took Mom back to Victoria hospital. She has been having heart pains at night. Mom said that the pain is rather severe and happens after she goes to bed. The pains are sharp and she took tylenol and a couple of puffs of nitro and the pain subsided. The pains occured 5 or 6 times in the night. During the day she is quite fine. The doctor in emergency says that it may be just angina pains but they are doing some blood tests to investigate further. We are still waiting on the results of those tests and will advise further when we have them. She had pains on Friday night but they were not as severe as Saturday night. She may be having too stay in the hospital again for a few days, we don't know yet.
When I first took her to the hospital on Friday, she only talked to me and to the doctors of feeling weak...and it is true that her heart rate was fluctuating between 35 and 65, but she never told the doctors of any sharp pains in her chest. Now she says that she was having sharp pains before too! I don't know, maybe she was thinking that when she went into the hospital in Feb 2001, they told her that she may need a pace-maker and maybe she thought that that was the panacea to her problems. Or, maybe her heart is having a problem adjusting to the pace? The pace-maker is set such that it kicks in when her heart rate goes below 60.
I was so elated when she came home Friday and this is a bit of a set back. I feel a kind of desperation now. More...when we know...