Showing posts with label Medical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medical. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2008

Rick goes the emergency room

I was out training my boat crews in 10 foot seas and 40mph winds when I started to have chest pains. My crew brought me in and had an ambulance waiting for me. My heart rate was down to 44 before I was given 2 nitro tablets and 4 baby aspirin. At that point my heart rate got up to 60. Once in the emergency room, I had some blood drawn for testing. I also had a CAT scan of my heart. The test were all negative, except for a slightly elevated white blood cell count and slightly higher pancreatic enzyme levels. The big news is that when a CAT scan was done for my heart, it reveled that I have 2 gall stones in the neck of the gall bladder. The doctor told me I needed to have surgery to have is removed very soon or I would run the risk of some serious problems. So in the morning I will look into getting my gall bladder removed. I also have been suffering from severe leg cramps and my right temple is sore to the touch, so I will be going to a neurologist to deal with those two seperate issues. The ER doctor believes the sore temple is related to the migrains I also suffer with.

Thanks to all who prayed for me. GOD plan is perfect and to him I give the glory for guiding the doctors to finding this problem before it got too bad. Thanks to my wife for being right by my side the entire night, I love her. GOD's plan is perfect.