wine and heart

[Georgie]

I thought I remembered reading about this on the board. On Tuesday I had an episode of PSVT (racing heart beat.) I've had a few episodes over the past two years but this one managed to send me from my classroom to the ER via ambulance! It began around noon, and wouldn't you know it, I had a whole roomful of parents arriving for a special event at 1:30. I felt lousy but didn't let on. Got through the event, said good-bye to the last parent and tried to talk to the kids. I couldn't get enough air to talk to them. I called the school nurse who brought oxygen, and the kids were herded into another teacher's room. Since I was having such difficulty breathing I agreed to call 911. Wouldn't you know, they parked the rig directly opposite the windows of the classroom where all my kids were! They saw me get loaded into the ambulance and as it was dismissal time, they went home not knowing what was happening. Kids were crying...parents were in disbelief having just left me a few minutes before...what a circus! At the hospital they gave me an injection of something that stopped my heart(flat-line on the monitor) and restarted it at a normal rate. I never felt dead even for a second! Pretty amazing, really. Then I was perfectly fine and after getting the results of the enzyme tests they'd done, I was allowed to go home. They decided I didn't need a stress test since my heart had been beating at over 190 for four hours, and I was still alive! All this being said...alcohol did not play any role in this since I've been pretty much on the wagon for the last two months. I drink only one cup of coffee in the morning...no other caffeine..I guess it's just a condition I have for some reason. And believe me, if ever I could have used a nice glass of wine when I got home, it was that day! Lord have mercy!