Wednesday, September 15, 2010

On My Heart...Literally

Early this morning (6 AM) I went to the ER after a long night of chest pain/discomfort as well as being up with a teething, fussy Max throughout the night.  I had been having these pains noticeably increasing over the last month.  I thought it was just due to the move/stress, so I tried not to worry about it.  When the pain wouldn't go away, Bart said why don't you go in just to check it out.  So I did; they did 2 EKGs, blood work, and an X-Ray of my heart.  The doctor came back with the news that according to his findings, I have inflammation around my heart sack called Pericarditis.  I obviously had never heard of that before, and was a bit scared as to what that meant for me.  Thankfully, my blood work & XRay looked great, so I shouldn't need anymore treatment other than the prescribed 1 Motrin a day to take away the inflammation and pain.  I then am supposed to follow up in a week with a heart clinic just to make sure everything checks out ok.  The doctor thinks that I must have gotten some infection (a common virus or cold) that caused the inflammation.  Here is a better explanation of this than I can do:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000182.htm   
Please pray that this will heal up on its own with the Motrin, and that the physical/emotional feelings accompanying this would be healed quickly as well.  I am thankful that everything else looked good and it doesn't seem to be too serious.  In the meantime, I will give thanks to the Lord, for He is and has been good.

1 comment:

vcr said...

oh camie, you're heart (literally!!) is in our prayers!! if you guys need ANYTHING don't hesitate to ask, we're just down the street:)