Mom started having chest pain Thursday evening. It started about 6:00 as we were sitting down for dinner. Her first pain started in and I ran upstairs to grab her nitro and gave her one and I was ready to call the ambulance when it finally started to ease off. Then after an hour and a half we took her upstairs and I began helping her into bed and another one hit. This one was a little worse than the first and by 7:30 or 8 we had the ambulance coming. We were in the emergency room for about 3 hours and Dr Lassiter wanted to keep her over night. She had no pain in the emergency room. Then they took her to her room on the 4th floor and had her walk from the gurney to her bed and another one hit. This time it was horrible! I felt she was very close to loosing consciousness. Her pain was excruciating! I was so worried that I was going to loose her on that one. The dr hadn't given orders for any medication so the nurse couldn't give her any nitro or anything. She was frantically trying Dr Lassiters number and was dialing it wrong for about 10 minutes. Finally another nurse came in and called and got a hold of him and he ordered morphine and nitro and after another 5 minutes and struggling to breath among the pain she started to relax and it started to subside. I just knelt and prayed for Father to take her quickly if it was His will that she leave us at that time. She had some restless sleep for a couple of hours and then another on hit just as bad as the last but with the morphine given immediately it didn't last as long as the last. She fell back asleep and anther one hit at 5:30. She had a horrible night. I was so worried and felt so incredibly helpless there was nothing I could do to comfort her! She had an angiogram about 2 and no blockages were found. She didn't have anymore chest pains but all 3 brothers decided they better come so by 8 that evening they were all here. Dave spent the night with her that night and was able to visit with Dr Lassiter in the morning and finally got out of home that it was in fact a heart attack.
We just spent our time in the room with her. Saturday night we had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours just the four of us and mom visiting, laughing and crying and reminiscing bat dad. Then mike suggested a blessing and Dave gave her such a beautiful blessing.
Sunday morning we were anticipation her coming home so we all went back to the hospital. There was a bad storm coming so Dave left at 9. Dan and is family left at 10 and mike and Kathy were gone by 11:30. We didn't get mom home until 2:30 or 3. I put her to bed and we all took a three hour nap!
Just grateful we still have her here with us!
