My wife wound up in the ER today.

[Hawkeye-X]

Today, after a family lunch, we decided to go out to the park, and she started getting tightness on her chest, and she was complaining of pain, hot flashes and stuff. We initially thought she was having an heart attack or something similar (I originally attributed it to acid reflux). I drove her to the hospital, less than 5 minutes from our house. She was seen almost immediately due to priority for chest pain by the resident who had his arm in a sling. He ordered EKG's and bloodwork, and both turned out to be normal. He quickly focused on gastric issues and ordered an ultrasound and found out that she has gallstones. She was given morphine through IV, which the pain abasted. 4 hours after being seen in the ER, she was released to go home with pain meds and referral to see the GI specialist about removing the gallstones. We will make an appointment after the Passover holiday is over, but it was a scary moment, but our little hospital (Rose Medical Center) has earned major props for taking care of my wife so quickly. Insurance stuff came later, because she was a previous patient at Rose last year, they still had her insurance and confirmed valid for the tests the Dr ordered.

Sometimes things work quickly, sometimes when a person is in a real serious pain, (when she was admitted to the ER she had very low blood pressure, which the IV helped and her BP elevated to a point where she can tolerate morphine) things have priorities. The ER was surprisingly pretty full for a early Tuesday afternoon.

It was a scary moment, but at least she's okay and sitting across the room on her computer.

I'm going to drag her to bed now. Good night all.

Hawkeye-X