Heart of my Heart

My Mom had a heart attack in July.

She wasn't in Church that Sunday. That was odd so after Church I went to her place to see what the story was. She told me what happened - you'll read her account below - but wasn't convinced that what happened to her was as serious as I was making out. I wasn't fully convinced of the seriousness of the event either, but I did stress that at her age, and with her past health history, things like this need to get checked out sooner as opposed to later. Anyway here is her story sent in an email to her female friends and relatives...


THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU

I am writing this especially for the ladies. This is what happened to me.

I got up in the morning and went to the bathroom and while I was sitting there, suddenly I experienced a series of weak spells lasting about 10 mins accompanied by a cold sweat which was dripping off my chin. When I felt able to move, I got up and fell across the bed and slept for about an hour. Wes woke me up to see if I was getting up for the day and I told him what happened and fell back to sleep again. A couple of hours later I got up and dressed and proceeded to get on with my day, but I felt so weak and unstable I was unable to continue. After Wes made supper that evening, I went to bed and had a good sleep.

The next day, I had an appointment with my doctor to renew a prescription, so I told her about my experience. She had a blood test done and informed me that I had had a heart attack. I did not recognize it as such because there was no pain, but the blood test showed that certain enzymes had been released that indicated the heart attack.. She immediately had me shipped off to the Three Hills Hospital where I remained for 4 days while awaiting admittance to the Foothills Hospital for an angiogram.

Everyday they did blood tests and gave me bloodthinners. On the 4th day they said I could go home because the enzymes had diminished and they had cancelled the angiogram. Horray for me!!

So you see, a woman’s heart attack is not like a man’s.

Just goes to show you that you never know who the next one will be. I’m just happy that my name was not on the Lord’s daytimer that day.

-Pat Campbell

During this event my parents got their Personal Directives done and she and Wes along with the Executors named in their wills are getting together to share all plans, wills and directives.

It usually takes something like this to get ourselves in gear to make sure we have our affairs in order... after all we never know when our name will be in the 'Lord's daytimer'.