A Scare

This week has been SO crazy!!! We started the week, well Tuesday, with "JB7"'s (his new nickname he has given himself) 4th birthday! Jason had a vacation day so he decided to take it then. We took JB7 to a fabulous birthday lunch at the 'elevator place' (JB's choice) and daddy took him to a car wash and to the candy store later that day. That evening we had a wonderful dinner of Macaroni & Cheese followed by brownie sundaes for dessert at Nama & Bapa's. Needless to say it was a busy day, and we went to bed very tired.... only to wake to the phone ringing at 12:30 am! It was my mom and she requested that Jason come pick dad up and take him to the ER as he was having chest pains. After he left our house, however, mom was on the phone with the ER and they said to just call an ambulance. They took him in, my mom riding along, to the hospital 30 min away. Jason came home to stay with the boys (by that time it was about 1:30) and I went in to the hospital to be with my mom and dad.

They scariest part was when they gave him a nitroglycerin (sp?) tablet to slow his rapid heart beat down. Well, he had a reaction to it and it rapidly dropped his heart rate from 120+ down to 30!!! Doctors/nurses/EMT's came in, the stuck defibrillator patches on (just in case) and hooked him up to a drip to flush out the pill. It was so scary hearing the doctor say to my dad "keep talking to me, keep talking to me". Thankfully they didn't need to us the defibrillator, and they were able to get it back up. Ahhh.... talk about an emotionally exhausted experience.

The next day, once they had talked to the cardiologist, they found out that one of his main arteries on the left side of his heart was 95-99% blocked. So he basically had what some doctor's call a minor heart attack, and others call it the precursor to a major heart attack. Thankfully we got him in to the ER when we did.... So he had a cath put up into his heart and they put a stint in. He is now home and resting.

We are so blessed to have so many people praying and coming to visit my dad in the hospital, and come check and see if we needed anything. Thanks be to God!!!