My UFO (unbelievably fabulous observations)

[hoosiermama]

I talked with my friend last night--he called just after I posted. He's been having some irregular heartbeats--which I knew--and had worn a holter monitor several months ago which didn't pick up anything concerning. But because he began to feel light-headed and nauseated from time to time when he felt his heart acting up, he went back to the doctor and wore a holter again (months after I had expressed concern--but still!) And the monitor picked up not the fairly benign rhythm he had assumed, but a complete heart block which, at times, caused him to have 15-second episodes of asystole--no heartbeat. The bizarre thing is that it took almost a week for the doctor to get back to him about that! But things happened quickly, and he got a call in his office yesterday, a cardiologist met him in the ER, got a thorough--and very quick--succession of tests (all clear) and then the pacemaker.

Here's the thing. This should have killed him. Several times over. Just a wiring problem with his heart--no heart attack, everything else is good, just bad genes. But as an old ER nurse, I concur with what his doctor told him: if he wasn't in such good physical shape, he'd be dead. He feels like he's been a miracle, that God has once again taken care of him. And I concur with that too!!