T went into Afib this weekend. He does it sometimes but normally can snap out of it. This time he went in at 4 pm and went all night long. So we went to the ER this am.
They ran a bunch of tests and decided the best course of action is to shock him. "clear, zap" yeah that shock. Only its not charging paddles. Its electrode stickers the size of a phone. two on the back, one on the center chest and a fourth right above it.
They gave him some medical roofies and in about 2 minutes he started mumbling about loop de loops and was out. Once we was out they held his airway and shocked him. The body literally DOES come up off the bed and kinda holds then collapses.
Of course my husband stops breathing. The respiratory therapist was there ready to intubate if needed. She was using both hands to hold his airway open, two nurses were doing pain stuff on his chest telling him to breathe. Because while you are "out of it" you arent fully gone. It does zap your short term memory so he dosent remember it.
He was gurgling and making some weird noises and his tongue flopped out then he pulled it in and started taking really shallow breathes. His SP02 was down to about 20. She was ready to put this thing in his mouth that holds the tongue down so air can flow but he just wasnt actually breathing. Not like he was struggling, Just he wasnt doing it.
It only lasted about a minute, maybe two, and he started breathing but they were trying to stimulate him to take deeper breaths.
I did correct the A Fib. But now they have him on blood thinners as well as a visit with his cardiologist tomorrow. His skin is sore from the shock. Thankfully one zap did it. But his skin hurts everywhere. I guess getting hit with a taser to the heart will do that. Hes tired, we didnt sleep much last night. Have you ever heard a heart in afib. Two chambers of the heart are quivering and two are trying to beat. Its really weird. And feels like an odd tickle. I get it sometimes but just for a moment or two.
So he woke up and was groggy and but is doing ok so far. We deal with stress with dark and dirty humor so at one point when I was telling him about his tongue flopping, i told him he needs to start doing tongue exercises when we get home and we just looked at each other and started laughing. Having conditions like this... No fun. not good. Just more stress. He is mad about the upcoming ER bill. I have an ER copay, he has 10% coinsurance so 10% of whatever it costs for the monitoring, the like 6 nurses 2 doctors, respiratory. xray, ekg, two different drugs. the shock. Yeah im sure thats going to be great. But hes ok for now... Just gotta wait to see what Cardiology wants to do. A Pacemaker isnt off the table.
I was going to get my uterus surgery.. now i may wait. I have a 500 surgical copay and thats it. But idk what this bill is going to be... May have to wait till we get this one under control. Its worth it because he is doing ok and left untreated hes at a huge risk to stroke out at 41. So dont think im moaning about not being able to get sterilized right now. If I wait, I wait. My meds will clear my deductible by April of every year. This is just how my brain processes. If we do X we have to wait for Y. X was more important, Ill wait for Y.
There is a huge fire going on like 20 miles down the road. Its so smoky and hazy. You can smell it, Breathing it in is hard. Hoping they get it out.
Here is some smoke illuminated at night from the fire.
Then the actual fire on the mountainside before night.
Like I said, Its about 20 miles away and there is a three lane, split highway between them and us and a LOT of cattle grazing flat land. Im sure they will get it out long before it gets here. Now another town is in the path of fire.
Like they are under evac orders.
We did talk about what to do in case we hit that point. Like turn out the chickens and open the gate. Where to put 2 dogs, 2 cats, 1 parrot, 2 spiders, a snake and a gecko as well as 5 kids, mil, me... what things that we own do we get. T was like well we dump out whatever yarn isnt important and put the reptiles in those tupperwares... I said none of it is that important.... Its expensive, not important.
Cameras? Drone? 3d printers? those are really expensive things. Pile what we can in the new camper and drive off...
I also told him with all that is going on, I need him to put his computer password and the gunsafe password somewhere. He dosent want to write them down. Well I need them SOMEWHERE. If he is incapacitated. I cant pay ANY bills, I cant access our social security cards, marriage license, Anything! He takes care of everything so I dont even know how to access it.
im making potato salad for the first time ever.. Wish me luck.. Little girl and i made some sponge cakes and scones. Its spring break so while IM Working, They need to eat... all the time... And T isnt up for cooking so Im making baked chicken, mashed potatoes, corn and potato salad. I got the fixings to make mock chic fil a sandwiches and tatertots. And I havent thought beyond Sunday and Monday yet. Hes like, Ill just order pizza. Dude we have 70 bucks in the bank account. Pizza dosnet need to go on a credit card! Men I tell you...
My brain hurts. The insurance didnt approve the new migraine med to be taken with my shots.. Going to argue a bit back.. See if SOMETHING works. Yall it hurts... it hurts a lot. Im over here like, its fine, im fine.. Im really not fine.. I hurt so bad. And I cant do anything to help it.
Ill be fine... I have to be right... I can be a baby princess and get taken care of most of the time, Right now. I gotta be fine.
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