Hello everyone
Just a quick note take care of yourself self…..why is this so important….more so for women than men?
Let me tell you a brief little ditty……
I am currently a patient in ICU….not just any ICI…..the cardiac department of ICU…..no tears yall let me tell you how I became a patient….
Two days ago on Juneteenth, my daughter took me to breakfast at her neighborhood dinner…..mind you we live 10 minutes away from each other.
It was a normal day sun shinning we are happy….dogs jumping around it was great. I kiss my hubby, pet my babies get in the car and away I go to my daughters’ house.
The original plan was to take apart a drafting table she was gifting me ….then go to breakfast….we measured the table before taking it apart to be sure it could fit in my car…..nope it didn’t fit, we went to breakfast instead.
We arrive at the dinner everything is well….breakfast is good. Next door to the dinner is a dog rescue. My brother was looking for a dog so we went to look at the animals in hope of finding one for him.
As we walk around it smells weird and I begin to feel weird. I tell my daughter….she says we can leave….but they had one more baby to show us….she said she would stay and for me to leave out go to the car…..
I head out to the care feeling strangly unfamiliar in my body. By time she comes out I am in full blown gotta sit down before I fall down.
I can only tell you at that moment I am not feeling well…can not describe this sensation it’s just an unfamiliar off feeling. So as we begin to move I have a dull pain in my chest but I am still kinda ok just trying to figure out in my body what this feeling is….
I guess I was looking weird because my daughter ask are you alright….at that point I had to tell her no…I think I have indigestion and take me to my car…Im just going to go home and lay down.
As she continues to drive another pain hits me down my left arm up my neck….oh boy what the heck is going on is all I can think. My daughter asking me all the while how am I feeling….I knew at that point I was actively experiencing a heart attack….yet something in me denied it an kept saying just go home get a knap you will feel better….
Nope my body betrayed me again this time I doubled over and let out a weee gasp at which point my daughter speed to the hospital…running lights Im cringing holding my chest and she is watching me holding my hand an comforting me…
We get in the hospital she tells them what’s going on….I am immediately whisk off to some cardiac room with 30ty people attending to me as I am asking why are all these people here…
They took me immediately to surgery put in a stent…..I have not told everything just the important parts of this story….
I am very lucky as I have never really been sick, no medication and I am kicking 70ty in the teeth.
I tell you all this to say 1. Ladies don’t ignore the little signs. 2. Take care of yourself….
Thank you guys for listening and mental health bloggers in a couple of weeks.
Be good to yourself and others, take nothing for granted as you are not promised tomorrow…..
Donna
Talking with Donna 