Whump! What was that? I was sitting at lunch with a vendor and our meals had just been delivered. I closed my eyes for a minute and waited for the weird feeling in my chest to go away. “Oh, sorry…..just felt weird for a minute. I am ok now.”
Whump! I suddenly lose my appetite….now I never lose my appetite..never. “I think I need to go….it is probably nothing but I am going to drive myself to the ER just to check things out.” My vendor friend, Sharon, said “At least let me take you.” “Ok, but I hate to be a bother….if you just drop me off, I will get one of my friends at work to pick me up”.
We start out of the restaurant and I start to feel unsteady. I am helped to the car and into the passenger seat. Sharon asks me to look up the ER on the phone, but I can’t seem to work the technology. I text Jeffrey and my colleague at work that I am headed to ER, probably nothing, might need help to pick up the car at the restaurant later. Jeffrey asks me where I am going and I text back gibberish. We get to the ER, I walk in under my own power and that is where my recollection ends……. Read more…